(birds chirping) (cars whirring) - Welcome to an urban national park.

(upbeat music) And now we can start setting up the table.

This park is new.

It's barely four months old.

(people chattering) And the hope is that the communities who live in those areas that are further away to come and experience this.

You don't have to drive very far to get here.

- This is one planting zone, I think.

- We're going to be doing some restoration work, some planting, and today we're giving life by putting a plant in the ground and hopefully seeing it grow.

- If it's your first time that you've planted, you can call us, and we can have a special moment of celebrating you planting your first plant.

Oh, this is a rose.

- (chuckling) As you're watching me trying to get it out.

(laughing) (hammer tapping) - [Gardener] That's great.

Gravy.

- [Gardener] Push the dirt in.

- Mama.

- Turning it so the dirt out of the way.

There we go, and I think we're done.

Awesome, good job.

- If you didn't see and say hello to the strawberries, that's the coastal strawberries with the red leaves and the runners that they send.

So another reminder of connection.

Wow, look at this view.

There's so much to be felt, and seen, and heard, when we try and find that quietness, and that stillness, and that silence within.

This is the yarrow plant with the beautiful flowers.

Right?

Cool, isn't it?

Within our community that I was growing up in in India, in Pune, we ended up doing a long trek in the Himalayas.

Every single day, I felt, as I was going deeper and deeper into the mountains, it almost felt like my heart was melting every single day.

I was falling deeply in love with what I was experiencing, and sensing, and smelling, and seeing.

This is what I want to do and this is where I want to be.

The vision is to inspire everyone to fall in love with the natural world.

So how do we think about all these magical things that are happening in the natural world and make those accessible to our diverse Bay Area communities?

That is where the park is right now.

This is 14 acres of magic.

Thank you for trusting this space.

Thank you for showing up.

- And thank you for creating this moment of joy.

(chuckling) - So I say thank you.

- That's all we have.

(crowd applauding) And there's many more plants to be planted, so please come and help Moses, 'cause the planting season has just begun.