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People & PathwaysCreative Work Fund Grant...Dixon Long Challenge Feat...Don's Table is Nursery Volunteers Tribute...Strybing Circle Membership Surges Thanks to a $39,800 grant from the Creative Work Fund through the Walter and Elise Haas Fund, famed San Francisco artist Topher Delaney has begin work on transforming the edible garden into Arcimboldo's Garden, with an installation inspired by the work of Giuseppe Arcimboldo (1527–1593). Arcimboldo is the Italian painter best known for imaginative portrait heads formed from realistic depictions of fruits, vegetables, flowers, and other objects... 
December 31 was the deadline to meet the $500,000 Challenge Match offered by the Garden's long time champion Dixon Long. Garden Trustees Eva Monroe and Kevin Leong led the campaign to make the match, and Dixon, attending the December meeting of the Board of Trustees, heard Eva and Kevin report that, thanks to a contribution made that very night, the Challenge and been successfully met!... Nursery volunteers wanting to pay tribute to Curator Don Mahoney, contributed a phenomenal $110,000 to create Don's Table Fund as part of the Capital Campaign for the Center for Sustainable Gardening. The effort was led by volunteers Diana Cohen, Monica Martin, Helen McKenna and Pat Wipf. Nearly 70 volunteers made personally significant gifts ranging from $10 to $25,000 to create the fund, which will now be commemorated on a plaque that will be installed temporarily near Don's Table in the nursery, and then moved to the CSG when it opens... Page 1 | Page 2 |