Nature’s Knowledge with Garden for the Environment
Related Exhibition Ruth Asawa: Retrospective
April 17–August 21, 2025
(See schedule below for details)
1–3 p.m.
Floor 4, Ruth Asawa Garden
Free with admission to Ruth Asawa: Retrospective. Visitors who wish to attend this program should book the corresponding entry time to the exhibition.
Join educators from Garden for the Environment as they share the connections between gardening, urban spaces, and the natural world. Ruth Asawa’s garden was a space of creativity, collaboration, and care — a reflection of the many roles she embraced throughout her life. Ruth Asawa: Retrospective features an outdoor garden, inviting visitors to reflect on how Asawa’s attentiveness to nature is woven into her work. Each week, Garden for the Environment shares its decades of expertise through engaging pop-up experiences, from interactive skill-sharing sessions to observational drawing activities.
Program Schedule
Every other Thursday, 1–3 p.m.:
April 17
May 1, 15, and 29
June 12 and 26
July 10 and 24
August 7 and 21
About Garden for the Environment
Garden for the Environment (GFE) is San Francisco’s dedicated site for gardening and composting education. Located in the Inner Sunset neighborhood of San Francisco, the half-acre garden is a site that teaches people about the environment — soil, water, plants, creatures, and climate — with the goal of growing a resilient, more beautiful world together. They offer over 100 workshops a year, using the garden as an outdoor classroom, and have a robust community of volunteers who support the garden’s upkeep, education, and role as a tool for community building.
Programming for Ruth Asawa: Retrospective is made possible with support from Google.org.
