 All right, welcome friends. Welcome YouTube viewers. It is summer stride and our final nature boost with our amazing partners. And we just cannot say enough about them and they will be back. We have something scheduled a nature boost schedule for October so stick around pay attention to our calendar and you'll find out what it is. It's going to be fun. But if you're not busy later today, come back for a Spanish language craft program, and you will learn all about mono printing. And this is at 2pm, and by the amazing artist colleagues to robles, and it will be in Spanish, and it's a great class and he is a great artist so don't miss this one. And he will also be back. Oops, I got those backwards. So this Friday and next Friday, 2pm. Today is three reduction printing. So it will be fun still. And like I said, this is part of our summer stride programming and summer stride is not just for kids. It's for all ages. So do your 20 hours reading and get that amazing iconic tote bag there with the art by Kailani Juanita. We want to welcome you to the unceded land of the Lonie tribal people and acknowledge the many raw Mutush Lonie tribal groups and families as the rightful stewards the lands on which we live here in our beautiful Bay Area. Our library is committed to uplifting the names of these lands and community members from which we these nations with whom we live together. And I encourage you to learn more about first person culture and land rights, and we'll put a link into the chat box to a great reading and resource list. On Saturday at 2pm, we are celebrating the life and legacy of Janice Mericatani. And so please come out for that all of poets. The lineup is stunning poet laureates past and present. And some reading campaigns we have coming up total SF on August 24. We're talking about the end of the Golden Gate book with Daniel Handler and Gary Kamiah. 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Other great stuff I'm going to breeze through these we have still a lot of stuff happening for summer stride. So you should come out. And today I want to introduce you to Jessica Lee, the education program director at the native plant nursery. And she works for the Golden Gate National Park Conservatory and we are so excited for the tour Jessica. And I'm going to turn it over to you. Everyone welcome Jessica. Thank you so much. We're super excited to be a part of this last nature boost of the summer and excited for the future nature boost to come so hello good morning everyone. As mentioned my name is Jessica Lee I'm the education programs manager at the native plant nurseries in the Golden Gate National Parks, working with the Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy. And I go by she her pronouns, and I'm really excited to share about the, the Presidio native plant nursery, and the work that we do here at the nursery. But before we get started. Thank you, as a feel for that lovely land acknowledgement I also want to acknowledge kind of like the relationship that as native plant nurseries like with this land and acknowledging again like these lands are the unseated lands of the Ramaytish alonee, you know this land that we work in, breathe in, recreated, like live in. We call you Yolomu here. And that was its original name Yoloma before it became known as San Francisco as we know it today. And we acknowledge like the intimate relationship with land and intentional stewardship that has been practiced on this land of four thousands of years by the Ramaytish alonee, which was disrupted in the 1800s. When Western settlers came on to this land and change the relationship with people in land since then. So now, you know we are going through another change in the National Park lands and trying to like you know bring back those relationships between animals, plants and people, and just want to honor like the Ramaytish alonee for like that stewardship, and really want to honor the current native folks who are here on this land who are thriving connecting and doing so much for their communities and encourage folks to look into the actions that indigenous communities are calling for and forwarding here. So I'll turn my camera around really quick just so you can see, we can see the Presidio native plant nursery kind of in type here. And so, since we might have folks of all ages here who might not know what a plant nursery is. I like to kind of go, go through it backwards. So starting from nursery, you know what my people think when you hear the word nursery. For example, some people you know see the word nurse and think of like hospitals or places where people are taken care of, or maybe like nursery rhymes like you think of daycares and where we send our little ones to be taken care of. So together at the plant nursery with a place who take you take care of and grow plants, primarily younger plants. And the plants that we're growing and taking care of our native plants. So these are plants that have been growing in like in the San Francisco Bay Area for thousands and thousands of years in whom with whom the Ramaytish alonee have had a much longer and intimate relationship. And then we are in the Presidio parks so all together we're the Presidio native plant nursery where we grow and take care of native plants for restoration projects throughout the Golden Gate National Parks. So as a caveat, we are not a commercial nursery. The plants that we grow are all for various restoration projects. So happy to walk you through how that works. So follow me on this beautiful gray San Francisco summer day. And we'll stop by our kind of first structure since most many plants that we grow start off as seeds. So I'll take everyone to see our seed lab first. So walking this way. You also have some volunteer group here who is doing some important work with us. And we'll might have a chance to talk to them some more later. So walking in this way for coming into our seed lab and I'll flip the camera around and walk slowly so you can kind of take a peek at our seed lab. So here's let me try to get somewhere where the lights a little better so feel free in the chat if you just kind of want to put in what what are some things you noticed in here in a seed lab in our seed like how is it similar or different to kind of what your idea of a lab is. So, again, as I mentioned in most, like, you know, most plants start off as seeds and most of the seeds used in our nursery operations are actually collected from plants growing in San Francisco. We have folks whose jobs are seed collectors. If that sounds something really interesting to you, yes that is a job and it's super fun you go out and hike around our park lands and San Francisco lands to collect seeds from the plants. And then we bring them back here to get treated. So we do collect from the land since we want, you know, to use that genetic material that DNA of those plants that are in the wild to kind of continue growing plants for the park lands. And it's project requests each year that inform us on how much Steve we need and what species we should collect. And so, when we do go out to collect we get in order to support the wildlife and maintain sustainable practices and the genetic diversity. We generally don't collect more than like 5% of the seeds from any location just so that those natural processes can still continue on the park lands. So, after we collect them we bring them back here, because in order to grow those healthy plants and prevent the seeds from rotting we clean the seeds in our seed lab. So it can be some kind of more simple cleaning including like here you can see we have this seed or agonium latifolia. And then we don't when you let me go out to collect the seed, it's really hard to collect it seed by seed it's small and it's not super efficient. So often I see collectors will go ahead and kind of take the whole in fluorescence or like kind of the whole part of the plant that holds all the seed which might include you know some part of the stems or things like that. So part of the cleaning can include just kind of like separating the seed from the rest of the plant material. And here you can see we have these civs, very gold rush era, and we use it very similarly where it kind of shake and rub the seed into and the small seed will fall through these little holes to the bottom, but all the rest of the plant material stays on top. So that's kind of one of the simple ways that we do more simpler processes in terms of seed cleaning. We also do different seed treatments to so for example seeds after the clean seeds can be put into dry storage in the refrigerator, you have these are refrigerators. Sometimes they're put into cold or wet stratification or you put the seeds into, you know, like, we put the seeds together in a little layer of sand or peat or soil so they can start germinating. Or sometimes these are just sewn as soon as they're collected. So the different treatment of seeds depends on the different species. So what that treatment is is that we are like kind of copying natural processes. So there's something that these have like the have called dormancy. I'll turn around my camera so you can, you can have a face to the voice. There's something called dormancy. It's a little bit like hibernation. Many commercial seeds actually have had dormancy kind of like, kind of bred out of them. But since we are collecting seeds from from the park lands, these people have dormancy is a little bit like hibernation. It's either kind of like a physical or chemical dormancy that keeps prevents the seed from germinating until it is the right time until there's like a good time for seedling survival. So for example, let's say a seed has like some seeds, the way that they kind of wake up or like from that dormancy is kind of experiencing winter. So sometimes we put the seeds into kind of a cold or wet stratification in our fridges because it kind of mimics a winter in San Francisco and that's kind of what gets the seed to wake up so that when we take it out and get ready to germinate. It thinks that it's been through a winter and that it's springtime and ready to grow. So it's kind of it's kind of like mimicking processes in nature and kind of tricking the seed to wake up from its dormancy. So some of the other ways that we sometimes treat seeds for the, for their different dormancies, depending on their species is we have these sandpaper covered blocks here so what do you think this is mimicking in nature. Feel free to put it in the chat. I mean, this is mimicking in our San Francisco lands. So yeah, so some of the seeds especially our sand dune species, the seeds, they don't start germinating and they don't kind of wake up from their dormancy until they've been sufficiently kind of scratched up by the sand that naturally occurs with the wind blowing along the beaches and the sand blowing over the seas. So for some of the species you bring them back here we kind of scratch their sea cope with the sandpaper blocks and once they're scratched enough. That's kind of what wakes up the seed and gets it ready to germinate. Another treatment we have going on here is that's a little more unique is we have. It's not a very pretty site. But this is a blue witch nightshade. It is in the same family as a tomato family, the nightshade family and so for any of our gardeners who are watching watching and might not know and might know that that one of the ways to treat tomato seeds and get them ready to germinate kind of go. It's a fermentation process that kind of copies the way that you know the fruit around the sea might, you know, rocks and ferment in nature. So we have this going on here. And some of the other kind of more unique ways that we might kind of depending on the species that we might wake them up out of dormancy and treat them is, you know, some of them we might actually put them in like coffee, give them a coffee treatment. What do you think that copies and mimics in nature. It mimics kind of like going through the digestive tract of an animal. For some of you that's what kind of wakes them up from dormancy gets them ready to germinate that kind of acid. And then for others, some of them they what wakes them up from dormancy is fires for a long, for a long time wildfires were a natural part and as well controlled fires that were practiced by the indigenous folks here. And we're a part of the plants process, many plants processes. So we're some plants, the seeds, we kind of we use smoke to be used to set them on fire now we kind of use more like a process of like using smoke to wake the seeds up to get them ready to germinate. So now that we've kind of talked about feed, I'm sure you all are ready to see the seed actually start growing into plants. So, follow me we're going to go into some of our growing structures. So we can left this way into our atrium, and we'll head into our mist house, where, like where we have our youngest plants that are just growing from seed, but before we can go in, we actually have to do something really important. As nowadays with with COVID we there's practices that we do to keep each other safe such as, you know, very careful with pathogens or germ plant pathogens that can get our plants sick and one of the pathogens that is really impacting a lot of California native plant communities is phytophthora. I'm trying to say that three times fast phytophthora. So phytophthora is a water walls, and it is often travels in fact on kind of like the water and mud and dirt that gets on our shoes. So just to make sure we're not bringing any pathogens into any of our growing areas and first kind of kind of use this scratchy thing to take off the dirt off my shoes and open up and have these foot baths are filled with a solution that kind of sanitizes the bottom of our shoes. So I'm going to step on it. And with that, there's no phytophthora coming in and welcome to this house. Hi Jessica, your, your, your videos frozen, or something, or pause we just see the foot scratcher. I restart the video. How's that. Hmm, still just a foot scratcher. You still with us Lisa. I mean Jessica. Yeah, I turned off the video for a little bit. Let's see it becomes back on. Let's see, let's see, because you're coming through loud and clear. Yeah, that's so strange. I just want to say that I'm not that viewers. I will say something with an issue that is our signal is not there. We have some days that are better than others off a when it comes to our signal and why it's by the year. Are you still in the mist nursery. Yes, still in the middle. Maybe we have to step out of there. Did you turn your camera back on. Yes. Yeah, we're not seeing anything. I see some wheelbarrows. Okay, so the dead spot is the mist house. So I'll kind of show it from here. Hopefully folks can see. Let's see. Maybe can folks still see this. We're seeing. Yes, we're seeing some tables. Okay, great. Awesome. So I'm sorry we can't get a closer look at the mist house. Here it is. So, once the seeds are treated, the small seeds that go into a flat filled with like a peat moss type mix. And every flat, every flat excuse me can contain more than 500 seedlings. Big seeds like acorns are so directly into pots filled with soil usually one at a time. And you'll see, you know, those big flats, those are kind of our smaller seeds go in there and you see some, some seeds we have sewn directly into their individual pots. I don't know if you can see but you can, you might see some colored tags in there so those tags they help us keep records and understand like when they were planted what the species is, and sometimes like the information to help distinguish soil or genetic variability. So what we have in this house is it kind of provides the perfect environment for the seedlings that has shade and humidity, and each bench has its own irrigation system to keep flats and pots and nice and moist, which is what they really need at this stage. So, the downside is that this moist environment while really good for seeds and seedlings it's also perfect condition for fungus plants. You might see these yellow sticky traps so we use those to try to capture the fungus net. And then another way to keep insect pests away is like we add sand on top of the flat so you might see from here like you'll see kind of a lighter color on top on the flat so that's saying that also helps keep insect pests away. So, I'll try to get a nice pan around. So, yeah, so this is on this house where we try to give our seedlings kind of like the healthiest and supportive start to a plant life. Awesome, so I'll close this and then we'll step into the greenhouse. Jackie one of our amazing nursery technicians hello who's filling up with some of our amazing soil we actually have a kind of like a tailored soil mix that we create to best support our plants. And what we like to say is like a lot of native San Francisco native plants they don't like their feet wet with their feet wet in other words they don't like their roots to be to stay wet super long. So the soil that we mix we make sure encourages maximum drainage so that it's not kind of super so the roots don't stay super soggy. Okay, so here's a greenhouse. I'm going to test and see, let me know if the video goes off but I'm going to see. So folks can get a closer look at some. Here. I will flip back so I'm spraying my shoes. Is the video still working. It is not. It's a little, it's a little, a little jolty. And your voice is going out. How is this. Those plants were. Yeah, that's good. That's good. Okay, I'm sorry for so I think I think this is I think this maybe this these are the plants who are not wanting to be not wanting to have close up today. Yes, exactly. Yeah, they're they're messing with the signal. So we don't get super close up to them. But yes, here's our green house. So you'll see it's kind of attached to the mist house through that door. And this is the second step for many plants. So after the ceilings grow, they're kind of transplanted into individual pops, like you see here. And they're moved here, especially in the summer months will kind of like our a big growing season and transplanting season. So plants in this area they receive extra detailed care you can see this is like a more controlled environment in here where we can monitor them closely and perform any needed treatment. So for example with that toy on there's been a lot of a lot of various different insects and things going on there so this helps keep it more in a controlled environment so we can do some some of those treatments for the toy on. Yeah, so this is like, so this is this is a greenhouse. And so I'll close this back up just so we can keep the environment in there nice and warm. And we're going to take a little pause and kind of like the are growing structures. So I can kind of show some of the other important spaces we have here at the nursery. So back here in this building. This is our have a terium and it's kind of our gathering space we have. Because not only do we work with plants but something we're very passionate about is also working with people in connection with nature and plants. So we do. So during the school year we do host school groups. Like where students can learn about plants and the environment and make while we mainly serve elementary school aged classes. We also have like pre COVID we had year round service learning programs. Unfortunately, we do have more limited capacity this coming school year but excited to excited to say that we are. We are transitioning back to trying out some in person programs here again so then teachers are interested you're welcome to email nurseries ed at parks conservancy.org. And then, in addition to education programs we also host volunteer programs which you saw some of those volunteers earlier in the tour. I'm happy to talk a little bit more about that volunteer program in depth when we head over there, but as a heads up just also want to say that things are also a little up in the air. In terms of volunteer programs so for the latest updates you can check out our volunteer page on the parks conservancy website, or you can also contact volunteers at parks conservancy.org as this for most up to date information. Coming back over here. On this large building. So we call this building the pot palace or the palace of fine pot. So as you might have seen we grow a lot of plants which means we use a lot of pots. And so this is where dirty pots are dropped off. You can see on this side these are all dirty pots over here this is where they're dropped off for reuse after the plants have been planted out and we have students and volunteers kind of helped clean them. I would also want to highlight an amazing partnership we've had with the San Francisco Conservation Corps, who's been helping us out with a lot of the nurseries work that's been going on, especially while our volunteer programs were much more or have to be cut during the height of the pandemic. So they've been helping us with all kinds of tasks like transplanting, like seed cleaning and then especially kind of the pot washing and treatment so thank you SSCC for all your support. Couldn't do it without them definitely check them out they're a great group. So, like this is where they're kind of clean where you use power washers to get them to get the dirt off. Again, we want to make sure we're not bringing back by top row with these pots so we clean them clean the dirt off of them as best as we can. And behind this curtain that is actually where we have our heat treated pot. So that's kind of the final stage to make sure that they are pathogen free. So how exactly do we heat treat these pots that we have. I'll show you and also say kind of as a note of like you're really thankful for all the work that goes into helping us to use these pots as well. They are plastic pots and so I know for some nurses who don't have that support in terms of volunteers or, you know, they don't have the skill conservation for they use the pots once and have to just get new ones because they don't have that time or staffing to clean and reuse the pot, because we want to use sanitary and clean pots when growing plants. So really thankful for folks we can help us kind of lesson our kind of plastic footprint a little bit so that we can reuse those pots. So that kind of under wraps over here, that is our steamer. And so that steamer is what we use to kind of heat treat not only our pots but also our soil so we can make sure that our soil is pathogen free as well. So as you can see it's kind of a whole operation going on here. It's very much about kind of best practices to make sure that we're kind of creating the kind of like healthy as supportive environment for our plants to growing. So yeah under that, like under that those that cover is a large boiler on wheels, and he's water from the host to create the steam. And so we can control how much fresh air is mixed with the steam in order to achieve a certain temperature so it's usually 140 between 140 180 degrees. And then that steam and so we use that seems to kind of help sanitize our pots and soil. So over here we have our propagation shed and that's where we have a lot. You know a lot of the work done with our plants so we have a lot of transplanting going on things like the cleaning and other tasks so we have this set up going on over here. So we can see some pots with soil, filled soil that are ready to get transmitted into we have the steel table that are really easy to sanitize again so we can make sure we're keeping our plants healthy and pathogen free. And over here we have some volunteer extraordinaire who are helping us clean seed, and we also have our steam generator here next. So at the end during QA have any kind of technical questions or have questions about like the volunteer experience we can definitely check in with them. But right now, as I mentioned some of that seed cleaning work that has to be done so they're doing kind of some of that more involved ones for example you can see here. There's some folks like literally kind of taking the seed out of the seed pods and separating the pots from the seeds. We also have some folks kind of separating the seeds from these kind of grass seed seeds over here. Yeah so like really fun if you're really into kind of like detailed small detail fine motor skills kind of tasks. So now kind of to our last growing structure over here this is kind of the last steps about our plants. Go to before they are planted out into the park lands this is our shade house. You can see it is by far our largest structure has 42 tables or benches in here of plants so and each bench can fold more than 2000 individual plants. They are definitely pretty full right now as well because there are some big projects we are planting for folks might have heard about the tunnel tops new tunnel top site in the Presidio a lot of these things are being grown for tunnel top. So again, for going I'm scratching my shoes, making sure they're nice and clean by using a foot bath. And then stepping in. So here you can see the plan. I kind of if I were to kind of use an analogy like miss the Miss House is kind of like plant elementary school where they're getting all they need to kind of get a healthy start to life. The greenhouse is plant middle school, you know where we can still kind of give them a more controlled supportive environment but they're definitely getting bigger. So the Miss House, I kind of think of the plant high school, we're kind of giving them still like a safe environment but also to kind of grow a little bit more independent. So as you can see the structure looks pretty different. We use a 30% shade cloth here rather than kind of physical walls like we do in the Miss House and the greenhouse. It also allows things to come in like more sun, wind rain, you know, more of the elements while still kind of creating like a safe barrier for the plants, just so that they can get more like the spaces they'll be planted back to. So that way they're kind of growing a little more resilient so that when they're planted out they have a higher success of surviving once they're planted out. Since they live pretty cushy lives as the plants when they're in the Miss House and greenhouse. And we have so many plants of species to care for in here so definitely plants in the Shea house require the most attention. So they need pruning watering fertilizing weeding and much more. And around the fall season after the first year reign that's when the plants usually kind of leave in our street and are planted in the park at specific restoration sites. So here's the image before we can get a closer look at some of these tags here. So here we have some classic California poppy. And so here's the tags we have, if they can focus, you can do it. Technology, I believe in you. There you go. So as you can see, we have the scientific name at the top, and then you'll see a series of like numbers and letters in the middle. So that's the Propagal Code, or a kind of like a barcode number that follows a set of plants all the way from the seed, or when the cutting is first collected. So the first two numbers. So 18, that's the year that the seed was collected. So this seed was collected in 2018. And so the letter is the nursery name so we have three main nursery sites we have Presidio, Marin Headlands and Fort Funston. So that key means that it was collected by Presidio nursery folks. The next set of three numbers is the sequential kind of identity given to each new species collect collected in that year by that nursery. So in other words, this says 2023. So this is the 23rd species that was collected for that year. And then for, and then you'll see a letter, and it says, and so that indicates that it was grown from seed cutting or something else. And the final number says how many times that batch of seed has been used. So you'll see S. So that means I was grown from seed, and it is the sixth time that plants have been grown from this seed. So that so we have that record that for each of our plants so we can have all that information there, and you'll see an S followed by a date so that's the stone date so this seed was so December 5, 2020. And then the last time I was transplanted was December 15, 2020. So these have these have been in here for eight months. So, like, yeah, so again here here, we have many different kind of plants being grown here. I wish, like, you know, these are our nurseries while, you know, we don't have kind of the drop in volunteer programs that we did pre pandemic, you know this is in national parks so this is accessible to the public. So I'm also curious and kind of just want to take a peek at these plants. You know, you're welcome to kind of come on come on by and see if any staff are around, or just kind of walk around on the outside of the Shea house and kind of see what plants we have growing over here. So I'm happy to like so happy to continue kind of showing some of the plants for growing in here, and then as well as opening it up to any questions I might might have come up in the chat. This is so cool Jessica, thank you for showing us around. What kind of my question is like, what kind of education did you have to get Jessica to be so knowledgeable about this are you a scientist. Oh, great question. So I do not come from a science or environmental science background. As education program manager I definitely came through more of the education route. So I did some I went to school for elementary school teaching. And then before kind of falling into environmental education, I didn't even know environmental education was a thing. When I was like when I was in school. So definitely I think you know it's like I've been really fortunate to find myself here and I like all this kind of plant knowledge that I have was definitely learned on the job by some amazing colleagues who definitely have either more of that kind of technical background or who also learned, learned hands on like years of nurseries experience. It seems very, it seems very scientific. That's great that the public can stop by I love that. And how many there's just one missed house. And yeah so we have. So we have one missed house, one greenhouse and then the shade house here. Sometimes, you know there are sometimes or maybe it's like, you know, for example at the procedure nursery just tunnel tops is such a huge project that you know we might not have all the plants so sometimes that's when our other nursery site can support and kind of providing some extra space so some of our tunnel tops are some of plants are our Marin headlands nursery right now as well. But we have those three nursery sites mainly. We grow mainly for the projects for the park lands kind of in that area so our Marin headlands nursery grows mostly for Marin and North Bay Park projects, prosidio for mainly prosidio and like San Francisco sites, and then Fort Funston grows also as well for some San Francisco sites and then for our kind of like San Mateo sites as well so that's generally how the kind of the plants and the projects are divided between our nursery sites. Interesting. We have a question. I'm done with my questions now how about our audience. What source, what water sources do you use for the plants. Oh, great question. So we do, as you can see we have. We do have sprinklers and hoses everywhere. So yeah we're connected to kind of the water system in the prosidio park, and happy to check in with Annette who might have kind of more exact questions on that, or, or answer to that question. Like, but yeah it's definitely water is a big definitely a resource that we use a lot of to kind of water our plants so that's definitely been kind of a conversation as well of like the water, the water usage that we take up knowing that it's a drought year while also trying to keep our plants alive and cared for. Yeah, that's a great question. Okay, how about how many different plants. Oh, sorry. I was like, Annette, do you have. Yes, do you have an answer to like where our water source is. Yeah, so a lot of our own water source. Oh, sorry, let me take out the microphone. Okay, hi. Better. All right. Can you hear me. Yes. And so a lot of the year the city has its own water source, which is the Lobos Creek, which is right between the city and the Richmond neighborhood San Francisco, but sometimes during the summer, actually I think almost every year during the summer. That creek runs dry, and we switch over and start to have the same water as the rest of San Francisco. So we tap into head to head as everybody else does. Thank you Annette. That's really interesting about the creek. So next question is how many different plants do you have in the nursery. How many different plants do we have at the nursery right now. I can take that one. Yeah. So we grow and there's there's about 400 species of native plants in the city. And usually on any given year we grow about 150 different species. So within that 400 total will grow about 150 just depending on what's requested for that year. Oh, I think you're on mute. Yes, I am. So some good native plants for SF folks to grow at home if they don't really have a green thumb. Yes. Good. What are some easy native. California poppies, they do love to grow kind of anywhere they actually love to be neglected. So that's a good one. You know strawberries, we do have a lot of strawberries that are native and those will take over and they can also be grown in pots. Thinking about what can be grown like on a balcony or something. We also have some native succulents. That's the kind of plants I grow the kind you can neglect. That is fascinating. So I recall there being a native plants sale is that something you do. That is not for us. I think that you might be thinking about the Golden Gate Park. Okay, that's just a, that's a city from heart versus ours. Okay, here comes another question. Do you stress plants with wind, like a hairdryer to get them used used to being in the wind. Oh, good question. I wonder if you can see how windy it is here now. I swear it's been windy. So we grow the plants in the shade house because the wind just goes straight through there. So the shade, the shade cloth does provide some protection from the wind, but for the most part, it's the plants have to same with the rain and sun. The shade house just makes it a little bit less intense for the growing plants, but everything is done. Cool. That's a great question. Thank you audience. All right, do we have any final questions for our friends here at the native plant nursery? Thank you for this tour. It's been so exciting to see and to see our friends there doing some work there. Yes, thank you. This was super, super fun. I'm glad we could be a part of the SFDL Nature Boost summer series. Yeah, absolutely. And let me just check the YouTube side and make sure there's no more questions. Everyone in our YouTube land, good questions. Okay. Jessica education coordinator. Thank you so much for being here today and taking us on this tour. And we will look forward to our next event that we can do with our partners. I'll give you a hint. It's in October and it contains a very cute animal. So look for our SFDL.org slash events. And we want to thank all of our partners at NPS, the Golden Gate National Park Conservatory and the Presidio Trust for joining us this summer. And Jessica, thank you. Have a lovely weekend and SFDL community. We love you and we'll see you out in nature. Bye everybody.