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        • Tenderloin wins San Francisco’s “Most Greenified Block”
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        • Ney Street “Neyborhood” wins annual “Most Greenified Block” award
        • Save Our Water and Our Trees! campaign offers tips to help trees thrive
        • Friends of the Urban Forest to plant 50,000th tree August 1
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        • San Francisco’s in trouble when mild rain fells trees
        • #TechPlantsSF engages tech community in greening San Francisco
        • Broderick/Hayes wins “Most Greenified Block”
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        • City’s “Most Greenified Block”: Pennsylvania Street Gardens
        • City to Install 11 Blocks of Sidewalk Gardens in SF Neighborhoods
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        • Friends of the Urban Forest Transforms Neighborhoods
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        • Applications due November 26 for subsidized fruit trees
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        • Will our next mayor improve our streets and parks?
        • Urban Wood Movement to Hold First Conference in San Francisco
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        • “Green Christmas Trees” better than dead ones
        • New sidewalk gardens beautify neighborhood and protect City sewers
        • Save a tree by logging it… into the Urban Forest Map
        • Friends of the Urban Forest to hold 1000th planting Feb 20
        • New trees for Nob Hill to echo nineteenth century glory
        • Big San Francisco tree planting planned for Tu B’Shvat
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Programs & Services

Woman watering a sidewalk garden

Watering a sidewalk garden in Bernal Heights, July 2012.

Through a comprehensive roster of programs, we grow San Francisco’s urban forest while bringing neighbors together and empowering citizens to make their neighborhoods greener.

Greening

Free Trees for San Francisco – growing our future
Tree Replacement – new trees for empty basins
Sidewalk Gardening – another way to green the city
Early Tree Care – follow-up visits for young trees
Emergency Tree Care – we respond to tree crises

Community Engagement

Community Outreach – organize your neighbors
Corporate Workdays – teamwork in the outdoors
Green Christmas Trees – living, potted tree “rental”

Education

Green Teens – paid training for at-risk youth
Green Crew – young survivors changing their lives
Tree Tours – free walks with expert guides
Community Forester Training – become a tree expert

Advocacy

Advocacy – improving public policies

 

Programs & Services

  • Greening
  • Community Engagement
  • Education
  • Advocacy

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We just can't say THANK YOU enough! This has been such a life-changing, street-transforming, neighborhood-lifting experience."
— Lori Hébert & Thaddeus Homan

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