DOIRL events and goings-ons.
Explore DO for opportunities to meet up in the Outer Outer Sunset (and beyond). Click on an event to see what’s what, where’s where, and when’s when.
Holiday Wreathmaking
‘Tis the season for GFE’s annual holiday wreathmaking session! Join garden educators Carey Craddock and Jordan Kushins for this perennial favorite, which includes a festive walk through Garden for the Environment to gather beautiful seasonal flowers and greens, then time to create a vibrant holiday wreath to take home — or gift to your favorite host!
DIY Holiday Cards and Botanical Presses
Join garden educators Carey Craddock and Jordan Kushins for a festive afternoon making thoughtful projects inspired by nature. Together we’ll tour GFE for cuttings, then learn how to use our harvest to create a set of leaf- and flower-printed cards, and a portable botanical press. You’ll leave this hands-on session with gifts to give or keep, and full of fresh ideas and holiday spirit.
Second Annual Super Jolly! Fun and Festive! Local Maker Sale! and FREE Massive Maker Swap!
We’re back, baby! Our second annual Super Jolly! Fun and Festive! Local Maker Sale! will be taking place Sunday, December 7th, from 10a to 3p(ish). Head to 41st at Quintara (towards Rivera) and you’ll see us there!
This year, we’re excited to add something new to the mix:
a Free Massive Maker Swap!
Everyone is invited to:
Make something* special**.
Wrap it up***.
Bring it to the Massive Maker Gift Swap.
Exchange it for something special someone else made!
*Yes, everyone is invited! All ages! That means you! Follow your passion(s), flex your talent(s), share your creativity!
**Special is anything that would bring you joy to share with a kind stranger. The goal is good vibes. Your gift can be anonymous, or not, but please nothing edible, perishable, or NSFW.
***No need to go crazy with the wrapping (though feel free!). It should feel like a bit of surprise what’s inside each pressie.
Meet the makers!!
Here are the awesome folks who will be selling a bunch of cool stuff you’ll love!
Taraval Art Trot
this sunday 9/28, a big creative community hang on a small-but-mighty block in the outer sunset — it’s the taraval art trot!
artists! shops! music! food and bevs!
fun for kids! good times for grown-ups!
full festivities go from noon to 5p, on taraval between 46th and 47th
🖍️ i’ll be there from 2p to 4p with DIY buttons and zines 🧡
free! see ya there!
Botanical Prints and Presses: A Hands-on Creative Workshop
Saturday, September 27, 2025
10am-12:30pm
San Francisco County Fair Building — Recreation Room
$65
About the Program
Registration includes all materials. Please be prepared to walk for about 30 minutes total, to and from the Children’s Garden within SFBG.
Join garden educators Carey Craddock and Jordan Kushins for a creative morning getting hands-on with nature and making one-of-a-kind pieces of art. Together we’ll tour the Botanical Garden for inspiration; collect cuttings from the Children’s Garden; then make colorful prints with fresh and dried leaves and flowers. All attendees will also put together a portable flower press to preserve plants for future projects. Leave this session full of fresh ideas, with gifts to give or keep!
About the Instructors
Carey Craddock is a garden coach, consultant, and horticultural enthusiast. She has been teaching at Garden for the Environment since 1998, first as a Get Up! intern, and then as a staff member until 2003. She trained in both CCSF and Merritt College’s landscape horticulture programs, and loves to combine her passion for art and horticulture into creative projects. She runs Carey Craddock Gardens where she specializes in ecological garden design and growing food.
Jordan Kushins (she / her) writes about creative places, people, and things; draws everything from seagulls to salvias; makes ceramic jewelry and other crafts; and gardens weekly with Carey Craddock, as well as kids at the Up On Top! program at the Tenderloin Rec Center. She’s also the founder of outer outer .space — a resource offering online and IRL inspiration to make, learn, collect, do, and share.
SUMMER Maker Sale in Outer Outer .space!
You don’t want to miss this! Lots and lots and lots of creative things you’ll love at this Summer Maker Sale in outer outer .space!
We’ll be hanging out on 43rd @ Lawton (towards Moraga, you’ll see us!) from 10am to 3pm (ish) on Saturday, August 16th.
Come by, hang out, support local artists, and even make a DIY button to wear around the neighb.
Good times, good vibes, good folks, good stuff — we hope to see you there!
OCEAN BEACH ZINES: DRAW, FOLD, WRITE, AND SHARE at the Ortega SPFL
Join Outer Sunset artist Jordan Kushins to create mini odes to our wild coast — and the creatures, kelp, curiosities and more that make it special.
Read more on the Ortega SFPL calendar!
We had so much fun!!
Look at some of the amazing art we made together.
Nature's Knowledge: GFE x SFMOMA
Well, this is cool as heck. As part of the (truly wondrously incredible, please go see it if you can!!) Ruth Asawa Retrospective, SFMoMA teamed up with Garden for the Environment to do pop ups on a patio adjacent to the gallery, to complement Ruth’s dedication to her own garden and the powerful role of nature in her work and life.
The project was almost totally open-ended, with a few key limitations given its location: no soil, seeds, compost, worms, plant matter, or any of the messy things generally used in garden education. How might we facilitate folks to engage with plants, and urban nature, in a new (and non-dirty) way? What are some of the core lessons we wanted to share, with a fun, accessible way to get those across?
Together with GFE executive director Maggie Marks and my garden mentor (and good friend) Carey Craddock, we went heads-down on creating a zine as the foundation of our SFMoMA programming — a takeaway that would offer visitors an introduction to GFE and gardening (in general, and in SF) through a creative lens.
Habitat Horticulture set up a fantastic raised bed with plants that Ruth and her husband Albert Lanier grew, so we included drawing and writing prompts to encourage visitors to sit and observe, as well as think about opportunities to use their own diverse passions and talents to connect with others in communities that matter to them.
When we’re out on the patio, everyone who visits the exhibition is welcome to pop by our pop up and enjoy the fresh air!
MAKE A BOTANICAL PRINT IN OUTER OUTER .SPACE
WHAT
A very chill creative hang in the Outer Outer Sunset! Pop by whenevs, and MAKE ••• A Botanical Print!
WHEN
Saturday, January 25th, 2025 • noon - 2pm
Where
41st Avenue at Quintara (towards Rivera, you’ll see us!), San Francisco, CA 94116
SUPER JOLLY! FUN AND FESTIVE! LOCAL MAKER SALE!
What
A Super Jolly! Fun and Festive! Local Maker Sale! Over a dozen amazing creative folks will be selling a bunch of really cool stuff. Ceramics! Jewelry! Leather bags! Zines! SO much more, plus DIY pet rocks and live music by Shaeera Tariq!
When
Sunday, December 8th, 2024 • 11am - 4pm (ish)
Where
41st Avenue at Quintara (towards Rivera, you’ll see us!), San Francisco, CA 94116
Who
Check out the makers below!
We had a great time!
