The Native Plant Nursery program works closely with other park programs to restore and preserve the native ecology of parklands and to build a strong and vibrant community of park stewards. Over 1 million seeds are collected each year between the five nursery sites. These seeds are used to propagate over 400 of the 622 species native to the parks. This year alone, the Nurseries will be propagating about 270,000 plants for the 2012 growing season for 53 different habitat restoration projects throughout the 75,000 acres of parkland.

Native Plant Nurseries

Get Involved > Everything we do in the nurseries is dependent on the assistance of the parks’ most valuable user group: our volunteers! Find out how you can get involved.

Native Plant Information > We have over 622 species of plants native to the Golden Gate National Parks. Learn more about individual native plants found in the park that are grown in our nurseries for restoration.

Education > Students and volunteers learn by touching, seeing, and feeling how each fiber in the web of an ecosystem is essential to all other fibers in the web of life.

Nursery Internships > As interns work side by side with experienced professional staff at the nursery, they also have the opportunity to work on individual projects that are in their particular areas of interest.

Nursery Locations

• Fort Funston Nursery
• Presidio Nursery
• Marin Headlands Nursery
• Redwood Creek Nursery
• Tennessee Valley Nursery