Infrastructurist
San Francisco's Hayes Valley Farm
If there is one place in the country where the urban farm movement is really thriving, it is in California's Bay Area, where a great climate and intense community participation have made such examples of urban land reuse a common sight.
Perhaps the best example of this is in San Francisco, where the Hayes Valley Farm has absorbed a plot of land once taken by a highway. The Central Freeway ran into the heart of this dense community, but local groups fought to have it torn down after damage in an earthquake. Once they succeeded, a series of vacant plots were left in its wake -- one of which was assumed by this farm.
Today, the Hayes Valley Farm relies on volunteers to keep up its blackberry, fig, raspberry, orange, and apple plants, among others. Organizers also tech classes on bee keeping and composting.
Image: San Francisco's Hayes Valley Farm, from Flickr user Hayes Valley Farm
San Francisco's Hayes Valley Farm
If there is one place in the country where the urban farm movement is really thriving, it is in California's Bay Area, where a great climate and intense community participation have made such examples of urban land reuse a common sight.
Perhaps the best example of this is in San Francisco, where the Hayes Valley Farm has absorbed a plot of land once taken by a highway. The Central Freeway ran into the heart of this dense community, but local groups fought to have it torn down after damage in an earthquake. Once they succeeded, a series of vacant plots were left in its wake -- one of which was assumed by this farm.
Today, the Hayes Valley Farm relies on volunteers to keep up its blackberry, fig, raspberry, orange, and apple plants, among others. Organizers also tech classes on bee keeping and composting.
Image: San Francisco's Hayes Valley Farm, from Flickr user Hayes Valley Farm