Final post after ten years of Panhandle Park Stewards

As 2020 approaches, we're celebrating ten years of service and laying down our rake.

As this website is no longer active, visit sfrecpark.org or sign up for the District 5 Insider to stay current with park news and volunteering:

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Exercise equipment coming to the Panhandle

According to postings at the park, "A new outdoor gym will be installed in the Panhandle. The new exercise area is projected to open in January 2020."

The poster shows that the exercise equipment will be placed just west of the basketball courts, which is currently a stretch of unprogrammed asphalt. The Project Manager from Rec and Park, Kelli Rudnick, can be reached at 415.581.2561.

Panhandle Playground opens today!!!!!!!!!!

The park experienced a major step today with the opening of the completely new Panhandle Playground. The new playground was built with taxpayer funds from the 2012 San Francisco Parks Bond. Private donations supported the community input process and design.

 

A tree planting at our August community workday

Our newly planted Kauri Pine

The mature Kauri Pine

Among all the introduced trees seen in the parks of San Francisco, the Queensland Kauri Pine (Agathis robusta) is one of the less common. Kauri Pines have leathery, evergreen leaves, and grow very tall. Like the more commonly seen Norfolk Island Pine, the Queensland Kauri Pine is in the auricariaceae family. The Panhandle has one mature Kauri Pine - located near Cole Street. Nearby are two young Kauri Pines planted in recent years, and now, there's a third, planted just this weekend by the Panhandle Park Stewards under the supervision of SF Rec and Park gardening staff.

In addition to volunteers from the community, the SF Bridgemen joined the work group on Saturday, helping with the other projects of the morning: cutting back sucker growth from the elms and redwoods, raking and pulling weeds, and trimming a few of the large shrubs found near Lyon Street on the south side of the park.

Thank you Bridgemen for your work on Saturday! 

There's an old salvia in here somewhere....