Jack-o-lantern pumpkins are now available, fresh from Spinosa Farms near Gilroy. Bring your kids to see the goats and chickens too! Urban Pumpkin Patch extraordinaire. Take a walk in Heron’s Head park across the street for views and salt marsh bird watching. Visit the Eco Center, off-leash dog run, dog-friendly, easy on-site parking.

Owner, Paul Furman is a nurseryman, artist, naturalist, and photographer, who practiced landscape architecture in San Francisco for 17 years before returning to his roots with his hands in the dirt.

Bay Natives garden center is an amazing hidden gem near the end of Cesar Chavez, on the Southern Waterfront at India Basin. We offer a huge variety of drought-tolerant California native plants that will bring your garden alive with bees, butterflies, and birds. Jane Goodall recently wrote a book Seeds of Hope about how native plant gardening can be a powerful vehicle for restoring biodiversity in the world.