Mar 24, 2022
In this podcast, we continue our
visit at Sisterhood Gardens and our series on City
Gardens.
Today, we meet Sisterhood volunteer
Tim Wong. Tim shares his life story with us. He
grew up on the Peninsula and moved to The City in 2016. This
coincided with the founding of Sisterhood Gardens.
Tim grew up in an area replete with
butterflies, something he was drawn to from a young age. He was
interested in the insects and their relationship with plants. His
earliest memories of coming to San Francisco involve his
grandparents, who lived in the Sunset. His school took the kids to
the California Academy of Sciences, which we'll get back to in a
moment. Tim was in The City almost every weekend.
He never necessarily envisioned
himself living in San Francisco. After high school, he moved to San
Diego to go to UCSD, where he studied environmental systems,
ecology, and evolution as well as marine science. He was aiming
toward marine biology. Through school, he worked in an aquarium,
which later led to his volunteering at Cal Academy of
Sciences.
Today, Tim works at the academy in
its rainforest exhibit. As we're discussing his various rolls at
work, we take a detour to hear some of the places Tim has dived,
including off the shore here in Northern California.
Tim says he's drawn to his work at
the academy and the garden because of the sense of community and
giving back. We end this podcast with Tim's thoughts on what it
means to still be here.
If you'd like to volunteer at
Sisterhood or get involved somehow, please visit their website.
We recorded this podcast at Sisterhood Gardens in Oceanview in March
2022.
Photography by Jeff Hunt