Transparency of a brand new "Kale Not Jail" illustration showing kale snapping chains. Yes, kale really is that good for your health! Design by Malaya Tuyay

And though school might be out for most of us, the Education Team is just getting started!

Planting Justice's Food Sovereignty Youth Leadership Summer Internship kicks off June 20th, and we’re gearing up for six incredible weeks of cooking, gardening, and connecting with the land through community, art, and food. 🌱🍽️

A student serving food to his community safely behind a mesh barrier.

Plant Inspired artwork made by PJ staff in collaboration with artists Kate Deciccio, Malaya Tuyay, & Hiroyo Kaneko.

This is the busiest time of year at the nursery! From April - September, as the plants grow and blossom, so do our orders! In addition to all the other work we do, PJ nursery staff are busy 6 days a week fulfilling and shipping plant orders. Thank you for your support! 

Highlights

• In preparation for the busy season, we are happy to announce we have received a large order of over 1,000 plants! Shop the Collection!
  
  
• Nursery staff did some in-depth learning about apple trees and their fruiting flowers!
  
  
• We held an Herbalism Lunch and Learn for our nursery staff, providing hands-on tincture, tea bag, and poultice making! We also made some community art inspired by our plant relatives!

Finally, we are in the process of upgrading our irrigation system and installing it on our newly renovated nursery and shade structure, while also preparing to rearrange the Nursery in a way to better serve our plants, customers and employees!

Keep an eye on our website for info about an upcoming massive volunteer day / community party! Date TBD.

Our Reentry Program is working on so much, including hand-printing some exciting new merch inspired (and some maybe even fully designed) by PJ staff. We hope to have our own Planting Justice print shop operational soon! 

As the organizers describe it: "We facilitate direct access to State Legislators and provide close engagement with the democratic process for hundreds of community members, nonprofit organizations, and formerly incarcerated individuals. We speak to the devastating realities of the criminal legal system and challenge assumptions of incarceration and rehabilitation." 

Fruit is Fruiting!

While the PJ Mother Farm’s real “crop” is the propagation material for our nursery (the scions and cuttings from the 1,100 varieties of organic fruit and nut trees, berry bushes, and fruiting vines planted in pairs),those plants also grow a wonderful bonus crop of fruit!

Currently, we see ripening early cherry, early peach, late loquat, and mulberry. With so many varieties growing on the farm, we have an extended fruiting season as early, mid, and late varieties ripen throughout the summer. Wonderful to enjoy months of mulberry (stained purple fingers and all) instead of just weeks!

Keep an eye out for upcoming fruit tasting events at the Mother Farm, where we’ll show you how we grow and care for specific varieties, share the fruit and value-added products from them (jams, baked goods, and drinks), and enjoy them together in community. We hope to have 4-5 fruit tasting events between June and November, highlighting all the fruit you can grow in the Bay Area, from apples to sapote and everything in between (there's a lot in between). Hope to see you there!

Volunteers Welcome!

Volunteers are welcome to join us on the land for rewarding work weekly, on Tuesdays and Thursdays, or on Second Saturday of each month. Click here to sign up!

Covonne Page, Aquaponics Manager

Spring is a fantastic time to transform your outdoor space with the wide variety of annuals and perennials in our plant collection. For a limited time, enjoy 15% off your entire purchase using the code SPRING2025 at checkout.

Hurry—this offer ends on June 20!

Explore our shop today and share this offer with friends and family. Let’s grow bountiful community green spaces in 2025!