The year 2015 marks 75 years since San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum opened to the public. To commemorate this momentous anniversary, on Thursday, May 28, 2015, San Francisco Botanical Garden Society (SFBGS) will host its annual Garden Feast, a festive fundraising luncheon dedicated to the Garden and the children of our community. We hope you will agree to participate with other community leaders on the Honorary Committee for Garden Feast 2015.

Garden Feast is dedicated to Garden’s Youth Education Program, which serves more than 12,000 children a year, most from San Francisco public schools, and many from the City’s most underserved neighborhoods. The Program, which is offered free of charge, uses the 55 acres of San Francisco Botanical Garden as a large outdoor classroom, allowing children to experience nature in nature, right in the heart of the city.
 
Through a variety of school-year and summertime programs, internships, teacher trainings, family activities and the resources of the Botanical Garden Society’s Helen Crocker Russell Library of Horticulture, children as young as preschool age learn about plants, ecology, the environment and the need to conserve Earth’s biological diversity. A growing body of research shows that their direct connection to nature helps children grow emotionally and physically as well as intellectually. When we invest in our children’s connection to the natural world, we are helping to grow the future stewards of the planet.

Garden Feast 2015 will be held on the Botanical Garden’s Great Meadow. We anticipate 450 guests. Our keynote speaker is Gavin Newsom, Lieutenant Governor of California, former mayor of San Francisco, and grandson of Assistant Director, Arthur L. Menzies, for whom our California Native Garden is named.

Tickets $250 and up

http://www.sfbotanicalgarden.org/GardenFeast/