10 Ideas to Get Kids Helping in the Garden

10 Ideas to Get Kids Helping in the Garden

Did you know that getting kids involved in gardening can be a powerful teaching tool for subjects like math, science, and reading? Learning firsthand where their food comes from empowers them with knowledge for making healthy food choices for the rest of their lives. Plus, tending to plants promotes important life skills like kindness, patience and responsibility.

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Flower Piano VII : SF Botanical Garden

Flower Piano VII : SF Botanical Garden

For five days, Sunset Piano will place twelve grand pianos in the San Francisco Botanical Garden for its premiere event of the year, Flower Piano ®. Pianos will be open for the public to play, and over fifty amazing performers and ensembles will be scheduled to perform with other special musical happenings throughout the event. Flower Piano is free to SF residents.

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Heritage Day at China Camp State Park

Heritage Day at China Camp State Park

Prepare to be dazzled during this year’s Heritage Day festival, on August 27 at the historic China Camp Village. See the vibrantly-colored costumes of rhythmic lion dancers, and listen to the harmonious strumming of the guzheng. You can also try your hand at mahjong, join a Chinese brush-painting lesson, learn a new tai chi technique, and experience a life-size replica of a shrimp-fishing junk.

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