Call to Service

🌿 Food Gardening in America—What’s Going on Now 🌿 A Talk by Pam Peirce, Author of Golden Gate Gardening

Join Bay Area gardening expert Pam Peirce for a timely and thought-provoking talk exploring the roots and future of food gardening in America.

📅 Wednesday, May 14

🕜 1:30 PM

📍 LIB 286 (Second floor of Paul J. Leonard Library at SFSU)

Pam will address:

  • What inspires Americans to grow their own food
  • The historic roots of diets and the current American diet
  • What horticultural knowledge and cultural understanding help gardeners grow and shift toward a garden-sourced cuisine

🌱 Free & open to all. Event includes complimentary refreshments and seeds giveaway

Don’t miss this opportunity to hear from one of the Bay Area’s most beloved gardening voices!

For more information about the event, contact Zubaida Qamar, PhD, RDN (QZ@SFSU.EDU)

Call to Service Highlight – 2025 BioDesign Class Project

San Francisco State University’s 2025 BioDesign class, led by Assistant Professor Fernando Felicio Dos Santos De Carvalho and 2025 Call to Service Grantee, exemplifies a call to service through student-led innovation aimed at environmental stewardship. In partnership with Nature Conservancy, students developed creative, sustainable design solutions to help restore and protect California’s coastal bull kelp habitats. This hands-on project underscores a deep commitment to community engagement and ecological resilience.

Read the full story on SF State News: 

SFSU Design students create solutions to protect coastal habitat of bull kelp
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