The Golden Gate National Park Conservancy partners with the Golden Gate National Recreation Area and the Presidio Trust in the five nurseries of the park. The Nursery Program integrates with other park programs to restore and preserve the native ecology of parklands and to build a strong and vibrant community of park stewards.
We have five nurseries in the park. Each year:We collect over 1 million seeds.
We propagate over 400 of the 622 species native to the park.
We grow 90,000 to 140,000 plants for up to 50 different habitat restoration projects throughout the 75,000 acres of the park.
We have now begun propagation of replacement trees for the Presidio’s historic forest and are propagating the unique historic roses and plants of Alcatraz. Get Involved
The nursery program has three goals:1. To produce high-quality container plants needed for park restoration which are collected from local native seed or propagules
2. To create and foster a volunteer program that serves community needs for ecological recreation and builds a constituency around an ethic of restoration and stewardship
3. And to educate community members, especially youth, about the concepts of community, ecology, and horticulture using the nurseries as hands-on experiential classrooms.
Education in the Golden Gate National Parks Nurseries
Support the Native Plant Nurseries
We offer limited-edition picnic blankets designed by acclaimed graphic artist Michael Schwab to supporters of our Native Plant Nurseries. With your gift of $100 in support of the Nurseries, we will send you your choice of blanket. Click here to make your partially tax-deductible contribution and provide vital support to our Native Plant Nurseries.Directions to the native plant nurseries
Click here for a web-based map showing the location of each of our five nurseries. For detailed directions check out our Nursery Sites page and click the name of one of our five native plant nurseries.
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