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Last Friday, we locked the front door of our building and headed out into the city for our 2nd annual Chronicle Books Volunteer Day. With a variety of events across San Francisco, we had a blast mulching, painting, sorting books, and caring for our city’s trees, amongst many other activities.

Here’s the team at Oakland’s City Slickers Farm after a day of harvesting edible goodies in their Secret Garden in Emeryville.

Over in the Presidio, with the help of AmeriCorps and the Presidio Trust Forestry Team, we tended to a patch of infant cypress trees, as the Presidio continues a long-running effort to replant and maintain the park’s historic cypress groves. Special thanks to the Presidio trust’s Jenny McIlvaine for helping to organize the event, as well as the forestry team and the expert AmeriCorps volunteers who guided us through the project.

At Friends of the Urban Forest in Bayview, the Chronicle team did their part to help with FUF’s mission of building a healthier more sustainable urban ecosystem. Trees! Mulching! Weeding!

Here’s team Chronicle after a hard day’s work at the urban agriculture research project, Hayes Valley Farm.

Team Hayes Valley would like to extend a special thank you to Jay Blue Tape.

Considering Friday’s weather, it was nice that some of us got a chance to do some indoor work, including the folks who visited Opportunity Impact to help sort and label books, amongst other activities. In this pic, you can also see an adorable mural that the Chronicle team helped paint at last year’s visit.

Over at the San Francisco Public Library, a team of bookworms helped organize and sort boxes of donated books.

These were all truly enriching and engaging experiences–thanks to all who participated and all the hard working people at the various organizations who helped us throughout the day. To find out more about any of these organizations, follow the links provided above, or visit volunteermatch to find out more about opportunities in your community.

Jason Sacher
Associate Editor

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