San Francisco Victory Garden

The area in front of San Francisco’s city hall doesn’t precisely represent lush farmland but that doesn’t prevent it from being a viable SF food source. For the first instance since 1943, San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom, Slow Food Nation founder Alice Waters and more than 100 volunteers planted the first edible garden in the City’s Civic Center. that victory garden, which takes its name from from 20th Century wartime efforts, helps to address food shortages by encouraging citizens to plant gardens on public and private land.

Victory gardens continue to spring up in and around the City as food prices continue to rise and food sustainability becomes more of an issue. that Civic Center venture found its funding through various organizations including Slow Food Nation, CMG Landscape Architecture, City Slicker Farms, The Presidio Native Plant Nursery, Alemany Farms, Friends

of the Urban Forest, Ploughshares Nursery, Urban Permaculture Guild, Coevolution Institute and many others.

Our salad bowl spins with the thought of the many crops being grown Amaranth, Snap Bean, Pole Bean, Dry Bean, Broccoli Raab, Ground Cherry, Chicory, Chinese Cabbage, Collards, Cowpea, Cress, Leeks, Okra, Bunching Onion, as well as Calendula, May Flowers, Sunflowers and many others. Being realists, we thought that in that City that how will these crops survive with all the pesky homeless and veggie thieves but the city provides on-site shield to guard against theft.

Best of all, we applaud that instead of having a “veggie sale” or the like, the food grown in the garden will be donated to those with limited access to healthy, organic produce through the local food bank’s meal program.

[Source] DForce