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San Francisco schools program aims to teach 20,000 students composting through 'Food to Flowers' outreach
Summary
The Department of the Environment’s school outreach program "Food to Flowers" reaches roughly 20,000 K–12 students annually with assemblies, compost-monitor training and field trips; staff link composting to habitat and biodiversity as a way to motivate behavior change.
Samara (introduced as "Samara Hurwitz") and Tamar Hurwitz, who manage the Department of the Environment’s school education work, presented the Food to Flowers school composting program and described how the city reaches students with zero‑waste messaging.
The program, Hurwitz said, reaches about 20,000 K–12 students each year across San Francisco public and private schools through assemblies, a 7‑foot mascot ("Phoebe the Phoenix"), classroom presentations, compost‑monitor training in cafeterias, field trips to Pier 96 transfer station and…
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