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16 June 2010
In case you missed it, the San Francisco Chronicle's John King wrote a great article about the farm on Tuesday.
Crops dot fallow S.F. spots until backhoes come
by John King, San Francisco Chronicle (Tuesday, June 15, 2010)
There's a bumper crop of fava beans this year in San Francisco's Hayes Valley.
The vegetable's thick stalks fill planter beds on one side of Octavia Boulevard, and cloak a steep slope between abandoned freeway ramps on the other. Plenty else is popping up - tomatoes, squash, peas - but 40 pounds of the soil-replenishing favas already have been harvested.
They also prove there's a way to revive empty city lots - even ones where buildings are scheduled to rise.
I first wrote about the need for such interim landscapes last summer, as the development boom-turned-bust left several San Francisco neighborhoods with a gap-toothed terrain where buildings once stood, replaced by chain-link fences that enclose asphalt or dirt.
Most are still there, looking tattered as ever, but the scene along Octavia Boulevard shows blight can be turned to bounty. All you need is open-minded neighbors, wise owners and creative people willing to try something different.
In other words, nothing happens by chance.
Read the rest of the article: http://www.sfgate.com/
Photos by John Sebastian Russo / The Chronicle
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