Presidio Nursery

The Presidio Native Plant Nursery is a great place to volunteer. They are tasked with growing and cultivating many of the native plants needed for the Presidio and GGNRA. This is not a place to go and buy plants. You will not find anything for sale here. However, you will find a group of friendly dedicated people. The staff and interns make this a very inviting and educational place to volunteer. Ely, Brie, Jean, Michelle with their interns do a great job of organizing the volunteer activities. Over the course of a year, we have gathered seeds, sorted seeds, planted seeds, transplanted seeds, washed pots, weeded and pruned. This is a great place to learn first-​hand about our native plants. This has been our best volunteering activity in San Francisco. Go PNPN!

I went here a couple of times in the past month for the first time and had a blast volunteering! The people are really nice and they do an awesome job for the beautiful Presidio…
Ely is bright and sunshine-​y like the sun! And she loves what she does and it shows! She loves teaching, especially kids, about plants…
This is a great place for people who don’t have a garden of their own; you can get closer to nature and feel great knowing you’re helping to take care of and grow native plants…
5-​stars plus!

Unbelievable operation. It’s amazing that volunteers and interns do all of this. I once knew an intern there. It was a different time, long since passed. Lots of tummy clenched emotion during those times. But like the cycle of native plants, when something is out of place… it won’t flourish or grow as it should. It can’t adapt or find it’s rhythm with the surrounding topography. Understanding native plants might actually help with your broader understanding of life. It did for me. =)

PRESIDIO Native Plant Nursery rocks! I thought I wrote this review before but I will write it again. PNPN merits such. The Presidio is a wonderful place for adventures, hikes, and bike rides, and the Nursery will allow you to see how it becomes such a place. The tiniest plants that start as mere seedlings blossom into wonderful flora that hide secret paths and cushion your step. Wow. Even better, you get to help the plants thrive!!! Hands-​on. Fun for gardeners and green thumbs. Lovely people work at the Nursery, many from around the world. In the four years I have been volunteering here, I have met people from Nepal, Wales, and Japan, not to mention the entire U.S. I even met someone who knew ARNOLD! The volunteer programs are very welcoming. No pretentions or airs here, only pots and pruners! A delicious and tantalizing snack is served midway through the volunteer program. Tea, ginger snaps, or ice cream bars anyone? Yes, tis true. Equipped with a Japanese water boiler, PNPN can make anything from hot chocolate to peach tea. Additionally, PNPN has a litany of snacks waiting to sate your palate. However, I must warn you about the PRESIDIO POPCORN. It is spicy, earthy. and ethereal. I realize I have gone on too much about snack. Presidio volunteering includes activities like weeding in the Demo Garden, pot washing, pruning, transplanting, compost tea, bucket run, and occasionally, seed collecting in the field. If you come, I would say do pruning or transplanting. Those are my favorite activities. And spraying compost tea, but that is a rarity. Maybe I should say do Demo Garden instead. hoho. «AMAZING» ~ PNPN ROCKS!