by Literacy for Environmental Justice | Oct 16, 2019 | Bayview Hunters Point, Events, LEJ News, Urban Greening
To prepare for the rainy and planting season, LEJ is hosting another soil give away! Saturday, November 2 – 10am-1pm Literacy for Environmental Justice’s Candlestick Point Native Plant Nursery: 1150 Carroll Ave. San Francisco, CA 94124 We have three...
by Literacy for Environmental Justice | Sep 5, 2019 | Behind the Scenes, Urban Greening
A few weeks ago we shared photo and blog post about a Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly laying eggs on its host plant, California Pipevine. Last week, we found five pipevine swallowtail caterpillars on our pipevine! This is a GREAT reminder of why we do the work that we...
by Literacy for Environmental Justice | Aug 12, 2019 | Behind the Scenes, Urban Greening
We were lucky to recently take a photo of a Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly laying eggs on its host plant, California Pipevine. This is a plant in our Treasure island Nursery that we salvaged from a construction zone on Yerba Buena Island. When we dug these plants up,...
by Literacy for Environmental Justice | Jun 27, 2019 | Bayview Hunters Point, Behind the Scenes, Eco-Apprentice, LEJ News, Urban Greening
While San Francisco experienced an unusually heavy rainy season this winter, Literacy for Environmental Justice’s (LEJ) youth Eco-Apprentice (YEA) program dove into a semester focused on causes and solutions to flooding in our city. Our group of young leaders went...
by Literacy for Environmental Justice | Jun 23, 2019 | Events, Urban Greening
Soil Give Away Saturday, June 29 10am – 1pm In the nick of time for the end of spring planting, we have three different kinds of soil to offer! 1. A fast draining, sandy soil ideal as an amendment to clay soil, for species that need fast drainage or for rain...
by Literacy for Environmental Justice | May 22, 2019 | Bayview Hunters Point, Resources, Urban Greening
Today is International Day for Biological Diversity, a United Nations-sanctioned international day for the promotion of biodiversity issues. This day is important due to the rapidly declined biodiversity. The Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity...
