Share BARTable on Facebook BARTable on Twitter Email Dig into urban farm fun | Glen Park When: Check website for hours. Where: 700 Alemany Blvd. San Francisco, CA 94110 United States Website: Alemany Farm BART Station: Glen Park (SF) Walk Time: 5 minutes Transfer to: 44 Bus Sometimes when you’re enveloped by a bustling city, a peaceful reprieve is in order. Want to feel like a country mouse? Alemany Farm gives you an arena to get down and dirty with Mother Nature smack in the middle of San Francisco.Where once stood a junkyard now thrives a beatific organic farm spanning 3.5 acres. Sprawling and sloping, this urban garden of edibles welcomes visitors year-round. Enter its unlocked gates to meet beds of blossoming flowers and produce.Take BART to Glen Park Station and hop on the 44 bus. Get off at Silver Avenue and Cambridge Street, and from there it’s a 5-minute walk to the edge of St. Mary’s Playground on Alemany Boulevard. Once in the farm, you’ll be bookended by rows of seasonal favorites — like leafy greens, tasty ground cherries, juicy red strawberry nuggets, pluming fruit trees and colorful petals.Here, furrows maintained by volunteers and the San Francisco Recreation and Park Department’s Community Gardens Program not only nurture veggies, they nurture educational tours, environmental awareness and organic farm-to-table insights. Peek around every corner and planter box to witness how myriad produce poke through the soil.Good for the kids? Let ’em go wild while they explore aisles of bee- and butterfly-luring specimens. Good for a romantic afternoon? Enjoy hand-in-hand strolling surrounded by well-manicured lines of organic goods.Get in touch with your inner gardener in the outdoors. Folks of all ages stop by to lend some help — experienced green thumb not required — to support all that grows where the sidewalk ends.When you want to dig in regularly, the public is invited to volunteer at community workdays every first and third Sundays, the Saturdays in between, and every Monday afternoon.Check the farm calendar for Alemany Farm’s informative workshops so that you can take home helpful tips — like soil and composting how-tos — from its garden to yours. And, if you volunteer at a workday, you’ll likely take home some of what you’ve helped freshly harvest.This all means that when the gardening gloves come off, you’ll feel like a champ. by Felicia Kieselhorst Felicia is a freelance photographer based in Emeryville. Wedding and product photography are her bread and butter but she often takes on gigs in different subjects, including shooting for BARTable! Whatever the job, Felicia can often be found traveling via BART from her home station, MacArthur. When not working she spends her time gardening, kayaking around the Bay, watching A’s games at O.Co, or walking her pooch Qispi. by Linda Koffman Linda Koffman is an SF-based freelance writer and editor. Also a beginner gardener by day/performing songwriter by night, she feels grateful to live a life of extremes balancing plenty of contemplative silence with rocking out in a band. When not writing, she keeps her hands busy (and dirty) with old guitar strings and soil, and enjoys engaging with the Bay Area’s diverse environmental and cultural beauty. She loves puns to a fault and shamelessly laughs at her own jokes. Subscribe. Follow. Share. Email Sign Up BARTable on FacebookBARTable on TwitterBARTable on Instagram Leave this field blank More BARTable We found groundhogs in the Bay Area BARTable by bike: Ocean Beach Yes we can-yon: Explore Glen Canyon Park Bay Area urban hikes you can get to by BART Our complete list of urban hikes BARTable Walk: Embarcadero to Presidio Tips for riding BART during COVID-19 Trending Black-owned businesses | Shopping, Eating & Beyond Tips for riding BART during COVID-19 Moscone Convention Center 36 minutes in West Oakland Napoleon Super Bakery Eligible riders get 20% off fare with new Clipper START program NEW! BART merch now available online