October 2025 Newsletter Link 

Tuesday, December 2, 2025
HOLIDAY POTLUCK PARTY
in the AUDITORIUM
TO RSVP
Scan the green and red QR code below
or 
click here to use the Google Form
or
email [email protected])
Note this month is 
IN-PERSON ONLY 
No Speaker, No Zoom

Note when you RSVP, you will be asked to confirm if you plan to attend, if you are bringing a guest, and what you plan to bring for the potluck - please bring a label with the key ingredients if your dish is homemade. Does it contain common severe food allergens (nuts or shellfish)? Is it vegan, vegetarian, dairy or gluten-free?  

Doors open at 5:30pm in the SF County Fair Bldg Auditorium, and the potluck will begin around 6:15pm (once everything is set up). We will provide hot turkey and plates, cups, napkins, utensils, salt & pepper, butter, coffee and tea, some foil and plastic wrap, and will have access to the kitchen with a microwave and stove top if your item really needs to be heated. Please bring serving utensils if needed for your dish, as we may not have enough for all.

Show & tell will start around 7:30pm and will be followed by the "opportunity table." 
We will provide every SFOS member attending one ticket to win a free plant from the opportunity table - 
(note that no additional tickets will be sold or given out for wearing your name tag, bringing food or bringing a show and tell plant this time) - feel free to bring plants or plant related items to add to the gift table.

Clean up around 9pm.

See you there!

MEETING OUTLINE:

5:30 - 6:15 PM - Help set up (in the Auditorium this month)
6:15PM - Start eating, Mingle with old friends and make new ones

6:30 PM - Plant entry for AOS judging 

8:00 - 8:30 PM- IN-PERSON SHOW AND TELL

8:30 PM - PLANT OPPORTUNITY TABLE 

​LOCATION:
in the Auditorium not the Rec Room
San Francisco County Fair Building
1199 Ninth Avenue, SF, CA 94122
(at the corner of Lincoln and 9th Ave, next to the SF Botanical Gardens)

There is plenty of free parking on the street, inside the park, and and from the back parking lot, accessible from Lincoln Ave across from 10th Ave. 

​Enter the building from the front lobby or back parking lot.

Upcoming Speakers​
January 6 - Deb Boersma: Tolumnias
February 3 - John McCallen: Orchids of Western China
March 3 - Gustavo A. Aguirre: Pleurothallids

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