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16 August 2011
Hayes Valley Farm sits on two parcels on Laguna Street between Fell and Oak, Parcel O and Parcel P. A Purchase and Sale Agreement was signed for Parcel P, the upper portion of the site, earlier this year, which means that the farm may need to be off the site as early as February 2012. Tomorrow evening, August 17th, at 7 p.m., the developers of Parcel P, Avalon Bay and Build, Inc., will hold a meeting at 333 Fell St. to discuss their development proposal. It was described in a notice that was distributed around the neighborhood as: one wood-framed, 5-story building with 182 units and 127 parking spaces.
Please join us at meeting tomorrow to learn more about the details of the project. We are thrilled to have had the support of the Hayes Valley community and the Office of Economic and Workforce Development, the Department of Environment and the Office of Urban Agriculture at our current site and look forward to continuing to our work together to provide a valuable space and learning environment for the community in the future.
For more information from the developer on this project, please visit Build, Inc.'s website.
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13 August 2011
At Outside Lands? Drop by for a mini urban farm experience at Farmlands, the eastern spot near the hay bales of Outside Lands. We're next to fellow farm friends at the Fully Belly Farm booth and across from Wine Lands.
- Play at the FARM PHOTO BOOTH, snap away with farm friends, tools, and props!
- Grab some SEED BOMBZ, see your own garden explode at home!
- Explore the Hayes Valley Farm in 2D, and LEARN about our sustainable farm projects (worm composting, cob ovens, food forests, and more) with the MAPS PROJECT!
- Register to WIN a MINI VEGGIE BOX, so fresh and so delicious!
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05 August 2011
The Hayes Valley Farm Governance Story in 8 panels
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04 August 2011
Last year, during my first visit to the farm, I was inspired by a tour led by one of the younger volunteers. My 7-year-old tour guide explained “lasagna farming” and the benefits of layering cardboard as mulch as we passed the neatly stacked mounds of them. He warned me of the consequences of eating the wrong kind of mushroom and showed me the fava bean he had planted amidst a sea of thousands of them. “How on earth did you remember that that was the exact one you had planted?” I asked. He shrugged his shoulders,“It’s just an instinctual thing, I guess.”
So that year, when Zoey asked if I would do a cake for the first Interdependence Day celebration at the farm, I tried to conceive of a cake that would incorporate all of the things that go into building a farm into this cake. From collecting seeds and planting them, preparing the soil and stacking the mulch, tending to the gardens daily and watching them grow, then finally taking from it and sharing it with others. A farm cake was made. With vegetable juice dye, cookie crumb dirt, marzipan vegetables, chocolate covered pretzel fencing. And it sure was hard work cutting into it, but when you finally did, it was a delicious layered surprise – an offering of nourishment and pleasure, a reward for all that hard work, a job so well done.
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03 August 2011
Hayes Valley Farm explores perennial food crops like tree kale and experiments with Andean crops as well:chilacayote squash (a.k.a. malabar gourd), oca, pepino dulce, cape gooseberry, mashua fall are some of the crops we are especially excited about. Because the Andes has a similar climate to San Francisco – dry, temperate summers, wet winters – these crops do quite well. The chilacayote squash has taken off and covers half of the north east slope. Massive fruits are beginning to emerge and the squash tops, the new growth that emerges from the plant, is a delicacy in itself. Squash tops are especially beloved by the community that benefits from the Project Open Hand harvest.
Get your face painted and your crown adorned with flowers this Saturday, when Hayes Valley Farmers set up a Farm Foto Studio for 
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Over a thousand volunteers, neighbors, and community members have helped coordinate the farm efforts.