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Creating a one-stop shop and a website is a huge step in the direction of getting all the different city agencies and the public on the same page. Through our monthly Urban Agriculture Resource Centers, we’re getting the word out about all the resources available. They’ve had a huge impact. We saw an Alamo Square’s worth of compost distributed in 2014. People really want a place to get physical resources to garden, so we’re giving them an opportunity to get what they need to start their garden project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: With so many changes happening in San Francisco, has that impact been felt in the urban agriculture scene?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96911\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/urban_agriculture_sfrecpark_bees.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Agriculture Program- beekeeping.\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96911\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Urban Agriculture Program- beekeeping. \u003ccite>(Hannah Shulman/SF Recreation & Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HS:\u003c/strong> The same things we saw about the urban ag program a year ago are still true: people love activating their open spaces for urban agriculture. As the city continues to densify, that’s always been a concern for us at SF Recreation & Parks and the urban ag program: maximizing the amount of people who can get involved with urban agriculture and our open spaces. The urban ag movement is alive and well, and people are really interested and engaged. To that end, we’re continuing to think about how we can serve people in San Francisco through physical resources, through classes, and through providing more spaces to do this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: In terms of being able to access new plots, do you think there’s going to be less land available for new sites?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HS:\u003c/strong> Urban agriculture nationwide has thrived on private properties with owners who have become delinquent on their taxes and let the lots become blights. Here in San Francisco, the majority of the available open space is publicly owned. People are still trying to activate open space whether it’s publicly or privately owned, but our city has a different take on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: How has the program helped manage the demand for community gardens?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HS:\u003c/strong> Part of my role is to work with SF Recreation & Parks’ community garden projects to decrease the waitlist on those gardens. That’s not all the community gardens in the city, but it is 38 of them. Last year we put some new systems in place and were able to decrease the waitlist time by 12%. There’s always more demand for urban agriculture spaces like community gardens in the city, and we’re always looking at ways to accommodate that creatively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: What advice do you have for someone who doesn’t have access to a yard but would like to get started growing food?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96912\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/urban_agriculture_sfrecpark_lettuce.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Agriculture Program - growing lettuce\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96912\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Urban Agriculture Program- growing lettuce \u003ccite>(Hannah Shulman/SF Recreation & Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HS:\u003c/strong> You can \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/park-improvements/urban-agriculture-program-citywide/community-gardens-program/request/\" target=\"_blank\">sign up for a community garden waitlist\u003c/a> on our website. You can also find a map of all the community gardens and urban ag sites in the city and search by whether or not they accept volunteers. There are 14 sites in San Francisco where people can get started gardening today, without a waitlist. Those include places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.alemanyfarm.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Alemany Farm\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Garden for the Environment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a common misconception that you can’t grow food in San Francisco—that it’s too urban, or this or that. That’s absolutely not true. No matter what microclimate you live in here, there’s definitely something you can do to participate in urban ag, whether that means volunteering at an urban farm, taking a community garden class, or starting a container garden in your south-facing kitchen window with vegetables or herbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban ag-curious? Check out the SF Recreation & Parks’ \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/park-improvements/urban-agriculture-program-citywide/urban-agriculture-resource-centers/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Agriculture Resource Center\u003c/a> today (6/13/15) at Golden Gate Park CommUNITY Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 610px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Urban-Ag-2014-Annual-Report-8.png\" alt=\"123 Urban Agriculture Sites\" width=\"610\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96913\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Urban-Ag-2014-Annual-Report-8.png 610w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Urban-Ag-2014-Annual-Report-8-400x310.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">123 Urban Agriculture Sites \u003ccite>(Graphic from SF Recreation & Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"The one year old Urban Agriculture Program was created to address the insatiable demand for urban ag information. Over the past year it has provided resources to San Francisco gardeners and helped them find places to get their hands dirty and grow their own food.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1434207050,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":18,"wordCount":986},"headData":{"title":"San Francisco's Groundbreaking Urban Agriculture Program Turns One | KQED","description":"The one year old Urban Agriculture Program was created to address the insatiable demand for urban ag information. Over the past year it has provided resources to San Francisco gardeners and helped them find places to get their hands dirty and grow their own food.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"96906 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=96906","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/06/13/san-franciscos-groundbreaking-urban-agriculture-program-turns-one/","disqusTitle":"San Francisco's Groundbreaking Urban Agriculture Program Turns One","nprByline":"Brie Mazurek, \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/author/cuesa/\">CUESA\u003c/a>","path":"/bayareabites/96906/san-franciscos-groundbreaking-urban-agriculture-program-turns-one","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>Available open space in San Francisco may be scarce, as real estate prices continue to rise and prominent \u003ca href=\"http://www.sfweekly.com/sanfrancisco/seeds-of-evolution-hayes-valley-farm-wasnt-the-end-of-urban-agriculture-in-sf/Content?oid=2826371\" target=\"_blank\">urban ag projects\u003c/a> have given way to condo development, but the hunger for urban agriculture shows no sign of waning. Wait list times for some community gardens are upwards of several years. A new city program is addressing the insatiable demand by providing resources to San Francisco gardeners and helping them find places to get their hands dirty and grow their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Following a comprehensive \u003ca href=\"http://www.cuesa.org/article/expanding-urban-ag-san-francisco\" target=\"_blank\">SPUR urban agriculture report\u003c/a> in 2012, then-Supervisor David Chiu introduced legislation to create a program to streamline the management of community gardens and other urban agriculture projects through the San Francisco Recreation and Parks Department. The \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/park-improvements/urban-agriculture-program-citywide/urban-agriculture-resource-centers/\" target=\"_blank\">program launched\u003c/a> in spring of 2014, and last month it celebrated a \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/wp-content/uploads/RPD-Urban-Ag-2014-Annual-Report.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">year in action\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the helm is Urban Agriculture Program Coordinator Hannah Shulman, who has previously worked with Urban Sprouts, Garden for the Environment, and the San Francisco Urban Agriculture Alliance. She coordinates between the city’s many urban ag projects and runs the new \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/park-improvements/urban-agriculture-program-citywide/urban-agriculture-resource-centers/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Agriculture Resource Centers\u003c/a>, where residents can take free gardening classes and pick up free compost, soil, and mulch. We checked in with Hannah for an update on San Francisco’s urban ag scene.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: Tell us about the Urban Agriculture Program and how it’s developed over the last year.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Hannah Shulman:\u003c/strong> In 2012, people in San Francisco wanted there to be one place where they could get all the information they needed on urban agriculture, everything from where to get materials to build your garden to how to get a permit to build a garden on your property. We are now in 2015, our one-year anniversary.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As we’ve gotten the program up and running, we’ve worked with people who are already engaged in urban agriculture. There are over 120 sites in San Francisco, and one of my jobs is to create coordination and communication between them all. Creating a one-stop shop and a website is a huge step in the direction of getting all the different city agencies and the public on the same page. Through our monthly Urban Agriculture Resource Centers, we’re getting the word out about all the resources available. They’ve had a huge impact. We saw an Alamo Square’s worth of compost distributed in 2014. People really want a place to get physical resources to garden, so we’re giving them an opportunity to get what they need to start their garden project.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: With so many changes happening in San Francisco, has that impact been felt in the urban agriculture scene?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96911\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/urban_agriculture_sfrecpark_bees.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Agriculture Program- beekeeping.\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96911\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Urban Agriculture Program- beekeeping. \u003ccite>(Hannah Shulman/SF Recreation & Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HS:\u003c/strong> The same things we saw about the urban ag program a year ago are still true: people love activating their open spaces for urban agriculture. As the city continues to densify, that’s always been a concern for us at SF Recreation & Parks and the urban ag program: maximizing the amount of people who can get involved with urban agriculture and our open spaces. The urban ag movement is alive and well, and people are really interested and engaged. To that end, we’re continuing to think about how we can serve people in San Francisco through physical resources, through classes, and through providing more spaces to do this work.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: In terms of being able to access new plots, do you think there’s going to be less land available for new sites?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HS:\u003c/strong> Urban agriculture nationwide has thrived on private properties with owners who have become delinquent on their taxes and let the lots become blights. Here in San Francisco, the majority of the available open space is publicly owned. People are still trying to activate open space whether it’s publicly or privately owned, but our city has a different take on it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: How has the program helped manage the demand for community gardens?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HS:\u003c/strong> Part of my role is to work with SF Recreation & Parks’ community garden projects to decrease the waitlist on those gardens. That’s not all the community gardens in the city, but it is 38 of them. Last year we put some new systems in place and were able to decrease the waitlist time by 12%. There’s always more demand for urban agriculture spaces like community gardens in the city, and we’re always looking at ways to accommodate that creatively.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>CUESA: What advice do you have for someone who doesn’t have access to a yard but would like to get started growing food?\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96912\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 250px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/urban_agriculture_sfrecpark_lettuce.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Agriculture Program - growing lettuce\" width=\"250\" height=\"333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96912\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Urban Agriculture Program- growing lettuce \u003ccite>(Hannah Shulman/SF Recreation & Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>HS:\u003c/strong> You can \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/park-improvements/urban-agriculture-program-citywide/community-gardens-program/request/\" target=\"_blank\">sign up for a community garden waitlist\u003c/a> on our website. You can also find a map of all the community gardens and urban ag sites in the city and search by whether or not they accept volunteers. There are 14 sites in San Francisco where people can get started gardening today, without a waitlist. Those include places like \u003ca href=\"http://www.alemanyfarm.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Alemany Farm\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"http://www.gardenfortheenvironment.org/\" target=\"_blank\">Garden for the Environment\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>There’s a common misconception that you can’t grow food in San Francisco—that it’s too urban, or this or that. That’s absolutely not true. No matter what microclimate you live in here, there’s definitely something you can do to participate in urban ag, whether that means volunteering at an urban farm, taking a community garden class, or starting a container garden in your south-facing kitchen window with vegetables or herbs.\u003c/p>\n\u003chr>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Urban ag-curious? Check out the SF Recreation & Parks’ \u003ca href=\"http://sfrecpark.org/park-improvements/urban-agriculture-program-citywide/urban-agriculture-resource-centers/\" target=\"_blank\">Urban Agriculture Resource Center\u003c/a> today (6/13/15) at Golden Gate Park CommUNITY Garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96913\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 610px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Urban-Ag-2014-Annual-Report-8.png\" alt=\"123 Urban Agriculture Sites\" width=\"610\" height=\"472\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96913\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Urban-Ag-2014-Annual-Report-8.png 610w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/Urban-Ag-2014-Annual-Report-8-400x310.png 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 610px) 100vw, 610px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">123 Urban Agriculture Sites \u003ccite>(Graphic from SF Recreation & Parks)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/96906/san-franciscos-groundbreaking-urban-agriculture-program-turns-one","authors":["byline_bayareabites_96906"],"categories":["bayareabites_12276","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_90","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_14561","bayareabites_2721"],"featImg":"bayareabites_96910","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_96790":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_96790","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"96790","score":null,"sort":[1434137039000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"uc-berkeleys-student-run-garden-offers-urban-oasis-to-students-and-community","title":"UC Berkeley's Student-Run Garden Offers Urban Oasis to Students and Community","publishDate":1434137039,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Kaplan (left) and Sara Cate Jones are two of several SOGA garden managers. They are anxiously awaiting the first figs to ripen, which will happen in a matter of weeks. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96862\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Kaplan (left) and Sara Cate Jones are two of several SOGA garden managers. They are anxiously awaiting the first figs to ripen, which will happen in a matter of weeks. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whenever UC Berkeley student Sara Cate Jones has felt the blues coming on, she’s relied on the same remedy: she goes to the student garden on the corner of Walnut and Virginia streets and picks herself a bouquet of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The garden is always here for you,” said Kate Kaplan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Kaplan are two of several student garden managers for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/soga.garden\" target=\"_blank\">SOGA (Student Organic Garden Association) garden\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established in 1971 by a group of students shortly after the first Earth Day, the garden has offered students and the community at large an urban oasis in North Berkeley for over 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to the garden is on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the garden is on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a quarter acre in size, the garden sits on a plot of university land, and is overseen by SOGA’s student volunteers. SOGA was founded in 1999 when the university gave the garden space to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebmud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">EBMUD\u003c/a> for a pumping station. The students protested and a compromise was reached; the pumping station is now adjacent to the garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what’s planted, it’s entirely up to the students; there are several varieties of apple trees, plum and fig trees, flowering plants and bushes like sunflowers and lavatera, succulents and native plants, and of course, plenty of vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the garden gets some funding from student fees, SOGA is responsible for applying for grants to keep the garden running, and is also “meant to be the stewards of the garden, to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again,” said Kaplan. “We also make sure relations are good with the administration, and make sure they know what’s going on,” said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For example, at one time students brought in chickens and goats without university approval – they are not allowed to raise animals.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Like many urban gardens, houses can be seen just beyond the borders.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96864\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like many urban gardens, houses can be seen just beyond the borders. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaplan emphasized that the garden allows students to connect to a more nontraditional education, which “allows them to build off the lecture-based education we receive and get their hands in the dirt with hands-on experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920.jpg\" alt=\"This green house, made of reclaimed wood and glass, was completely student implemented and built. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96861\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This green house, made of reclaimed wood and glass, was completely student implemented and built. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several classes are held inside the garden; Organic Gardening and Food Justice is one and Garden Leaders is another, which “teaches students how to do project management within the context of a garden,” said Jones, showing off several projects that were conceived of and brought to fruition by students recently; one was a greenhouse made entirely of reclaimed wood and glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s also what’s known as BUGI, or Berkeley Urban Gardening Internship, which connects students with other urban gardens in Berkeley, and teaches students how to manage a garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920.jpg\" alt=\"This keyhole raised bed, in which herbs are growing, is made out of straw wattles. It was a student project to experiment with cheaper solutions than planter boxes to grow above ground. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96860\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This keyhole raised bed, in which herbs are growing, is made out of straw wattles. It was a student project to experiment with cheaper solutions than planter boxes to grow above ground. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while those who take care of it tend to have more than a passing interest in environmentalism, those who take classes in it run the gamut of the entire campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a class of 150 students this spring, their majors were “all over the map,” said Kaplan. “They had majors like math, business, French, everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While only organic practices are used in the SOGA garden, the piece of land next door, called the \u003ca href=\"http://nature.berkeley.edu/oxford-facility\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Tract\u003c/a>, is used by professors for their various research projects and the students worry about non-organic pesticides drifting over the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the allies of the garden, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecology\" target=\"_blank\">Agroecology\u003c/a> Professor Miguel Altieri, often tries to rent the space closest to the garden where he too gardens organically, but the students can’t control what happens on the other side of the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they sometimes put a sign outside offering the latest harvest to passersby, they don’t have a regular food giveaway because their output isn’t that regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920.jpg\" alt=\"A sign outside the garden tells when there’s produce being given away. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside the garden tells when there’s produce being given away. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Last year we partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ucberkeleyfoodpantry?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Food Pantry\u003c/a>, providing fresh produce for them to give away,” said Kaplan, noting that their grant money only provided the pantry with non-perishables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students often take the produce to share with their roommates, and community members are welcome to drop by when the garden is open, to see if anything has been freshly harvested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(During my visit, one woman dropped by to ask advice about why her apple tree wasn’t fruiting, and another man came by to see if he could score some kale or chard leaves.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many longtime neighbors barely know it’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most neighbors who come in are super excited to see it,” said Kaplan. “Most say they have to come by more often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the students have led some programming for local schoolchildren, and offer workshops through \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Unified School District\u003c/a>, they admit that because of a lack of continuity in management, sometimes they aren’t the best at marketing what they have to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Several summer interns are getting paid to help oversee the garden while the students are away on summer break. Here they keep track of their to-do list.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96863\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several summer interns are getting paid to help oversee the garden while the students are away on summer break. Here they keep track of their to-do list. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to expand beyond the campus community,” said Kaplan. “Many people think it’s just for students, but we’re trying to break that barrier. The garden was started by students and is mostly run by students, but it’s open to everyone. We never turn away anyone if they want food or just want to walk around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students are also not aware of the garden's existence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does seem kind of hidden,” said Jones. “My favorite part of it is its ability to teach students. But it's also such a great place to create community, especially in a university that can be so competitive, and that is so big, that students can get lost in it. It provides a kind of safe haven for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/soga.garden\" target=\"_blank\">SOGA Garden\u003c/a> is always open on Sundays from 10am to 2pm. This summer, it’s also open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 2pm.\u003cbr>\nIt is located on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/ntZEaV\" target=\"_blank\">MAP\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"UC Berkeley has had a student-run organic garden for over 40 years, but many students and community members don't know about it. Come with us as we take a look around.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1434420482,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1140},"headData":{"title":"UC Berkeley's Student-Run Garden Offers Urban Oasis to Students and Community | KQED","description":"UC Berkeley has had a student-run organic garden for over 40 years, but many students and community members don't know about it. Come with us as we take a look around.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"96790 http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=96790","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2015/06/12/uc-berkeleys-student-run-garden-offers-urban-oasis-to-students-and-community/","disqusTitle":"UC Berkeley's Student-Run Garden Offers Urban Oasis to Students and Community","path":"/bayareabites/96790/uc-berkeleys-student-run-garden-offers-urban-oasis-to-students-and-community","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96862\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Kate Kaplan (left) and Sara Cate Jones are two of several SOGA garden managers. They are anxiously awaiting the first figs to ripen, which will happen in a matter of weeks. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96862\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0645-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kate Kaplan (left) and Sara Cate Jones are two of several SOGA garden managers. They are anxiously awaiting the first figs to ripen, which will happen in a matter of weeks. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Whenever UC Berkeley student Sara Cate Jones has felt the blues coming on, she’s relied on the same remedy: she goes to the student garden on the corner of Walnut and Virginia streets and picks herself a bouquet of flowers.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“The garden is always here for you,” said Kate Kaplan.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Jones and Kaplan are two of several student garden managers for the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/soga.garden\" target=\"_blank\">SOGA (Student Organic Garden Association) garden\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Established in 1971 by a group of students shortly after the first Earth Day, the garden has offered students and the community at large an urban oasis in North Berkeley for over 40 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96859\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920.jpg\" alt=\"The entrance to the garden is on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96859\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0631-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The entrance to the garden is on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>About a quarter acre in size, the garden sits on a plot of university land, and is overseen by SOGA’s student volunteers. SOGA was founded in 1999 when the university gave the garden space to \u003ca href=\"https://www.ebmud.com/\" target=\"_blank\">EBMUD\u003c/a> for a pumping station. The students protested and a compromise was reached; the pumping station is now adjacent to the garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As for what’s planted, it’s entirely up to the students; there are several varieties of apple trees, plum and fig trees, flowering plants and bushes like sunflowers and lavatera, succulents and native plants, and of course, plenty of vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though the garden gets some funding from student fees, SOGA is responsible for applying for grants to keep the garden running, and is also “meant to be the stewards of the garden, to make sure something like that doesn’t happen again,” said Kaplan. “We also make sure relations are good with the administration, and make sure they know what’s going on,” said Jones.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(For example, at one time students brought in chickens and goats without university approval – they are not allowed to raise animals.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96864\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Like many urban gardens, houses can be seen just beyond the borders.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96864\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0671-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Like many urban gardens, houses can be seen just beyond the borders. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Kaplan emphasized that the garden allows students to connect to a more nontraditional education, which “allows them to build off the lecture-based education we receive and get their hands in the dirt with hands-on experience.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96861\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920.jpg\" alt=\"This green house, made of reclaimed wood and glass, was completely student implemented and built. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96861\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0643-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This green house, made of reclaimed wood and glass, was completely student implemented and built. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Several classes are held inside the garden; Organic Gardening and Food Justice is one and Garden Leaders is another, which “teaches students how to do project management within the context of a garden,” said Jones, showing off several projects that were conceived of and brought to fruition by students recently; one was a greenhouse made entirely of reclaimed wood and glass.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Then there’s also what’s known as BUGI, or Berkeley Urban Gardening Internship, which connects students with other urban gardens in Berkeley, and teaches students how to manage a garden.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96860\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920.jpg\" alt=\"This keyhole raised bed, in which herbs are growing, is made out of straw wattles. It was a student project to experiment with cheaper solutions than planter boxes to grow above ground. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96860\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0636-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">This keyhole raised bed, in which herbs are growing, is made out of straw wattles. It was a student project to experiment with cheaper solutions than planter boxes to grow above ground. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>And while those who take care of it tend to have more than a passing interest in environmentalism, those who take classes in it run the gamut of the entire campus.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In a class of 150 students this spring, their majors were “all over the map,” said Kaplan. “They had majors like math, business, French, everything.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While only organic practices are used in the SOGA garden, the piece of land next door, called the \u003ca href=\"http://nature.berkeley.edu/oxford-facility\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Tract\u003c/a>, is used by professors for their various research projects and the students worry about non-organic pesticides drifting over the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One of the allies of the garden, \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agroecology\" target=\"_blank\">Agroecology\u003c/a> Professor Miguel Altieri, often tries to rent the space closest to the garden where he too gardens organically, but the students can’t control what happens on the other side of the fence.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While they sometimes put a sign outside offering the latest harvest to passersby, they don’t have a regular food giveaway because their output isn’t that regular.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920.jpg\" alt=\"A sign outside the garden tells when there’s produce being given away. \" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96858\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0630-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A sign outside the garden tells when there’s produce being given away. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“Last year we partnered with the \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/ucberkeleyfoodpantry?_rdr\" target=\"_blank\">UC Berkeley Food Pantry\u003c/a>, providing fresh produce for them to give away,” said Kaplan, noting that their grant money only provided the pantry with non-perishables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The students often take the produce to share with their roommates, and community members are welcome to drop by when the garden is open, to see if anything has been freshly harvested.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>(During my visit, one woman dropped by to ask advice about why her apple tree wasn’t fruiting, and another man came by to see if he could score some kale or chard leaves.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Though many longtime neighbors barely know it’s there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“Most neighbors who come in are super excited to see it,” said Kaplan. “Most say they have to come by more often.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While the students have led some programming for local schoolchildren, and offer workshops through \u003ca href=\"http://www.berkeleyschools.net/\" target=\"_blank\">Berkeley Unified School District\u003c/a>, they admit that because of a lack of continuity in management, sometimes they aren’t the best at marketing what they have to offer.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_96863\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920.jpg\" alt=\"Several summer interns are getting paid to help oversee the garden while the students are away on summer break. Here they keep track of their to-do list.\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1440\" class=\"size-full wp-image-96863\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-400x300.jpg 400w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-800x600.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-1440x1080.jpg 1440w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-1180x885.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/24/2015/06/IMG_0666-1920-960x720.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Several summer interns are getting paid to help oversee the garden while the students are away on summer break. Here they keep track of their to-do list. \u003ccite>(Alix Wall)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“We’re trying to expand beyond the campus community,” said Kaplan. “Many people think it’s just for students, but we’re trying to break that barrier. The garden was started by students and is mostly run by students, but it’s open to everyone. We never turn away anyone if they want food or just want to walk around.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many students are also not aware of the garden's existence. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It does seem kind of hidden,” said Jones. “My favorite part of it is its ability to teach students. But it's also such a great place to create community, especially in a university that can be so competitive, and that is so big, that students can get lost in it. It provides a kind of safe haven for us.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>The \u003ca href=\"https://www.facebook.com/soga.garden\" target=\"_blank\">SOGA Garden\u003c/a> is always open on Sundays from 10am to 2pm. This summer, it’s also open Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10am to 2pm.\u003cbr>\nIt is located on the corner of Walnut and Virginia Streets in North Berkeley [\u003ca href=\"https://goo.gl/ntZEaV\" target=\"_blank\">MAP\u003c/a>]\u003cbr>\n\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/96790/uc-berkeleys-student-run-garden-offers-urban-oasis-to-students-and-community","authors":["5567"],"categories":["bayareabites_264","bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_8770","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_9649","bayareabites_2721"],"featImg":"bayareabites_96859","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_80132":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_80132","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"80132","score":null,"sort":[1396731682000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"newbie-urban-gardeners-may-not-be-aware-of-soils-dirty-legacy","title":"Newbie Urban Gardeners May Not Be Aware Of Soil's Dirty Legacy","publishDate":1396731682,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_80133\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1674px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/8042458836_0768f11f06_o_wide-5b39f19f9fc15138bc6d3992ab0ed12a7b8fb3b9.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2014/04/8042458836_0768f11f06_o_wide-5b39f19f9fc15138bc6d3992ab0ed12a7b8fb3b9.jpg\" alt=\"Graze the Roof is a community-produced garden that grows vegetables on the rooftop of a church in San Francisco. Photo: Sergio Ruiz. Flickr\" width=\"1674\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80133\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graze the Roof is a community-produced garden that grows vegetables on the rooftop of a church in San Francisco. Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanists/\">Sergio Ruiz/Flickr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Maanvi Singh. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/05/299051466/newbie-urban-gardeners-may-not-be-aware-of-soils-dirty-legacy\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (4/5/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Americans now live in cities, which means we have very little to do anymore with the production of our food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a reversal of that trend afoot, as more city people decide that they want to cultivate crops and raise some livestock. After all, there are few things more satisfying that biting than a bunch of tender, red radishes you grew yourself, or a fresh egg from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/08/07/209726394/want-to-be-a-chicken-farmer-try-it-before-you-commit\">backyard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://assoc.garden.org/press/press.php?q=show&id=3819&pr=pr_nga\">figures\u003c/a> just released by the National Gardening Association, the number of American growing food in urban areas increased 29 percent between 2008 and 2013 from 7 million to 9 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of these city-dwelling gardeners still aren't aware of how to grow food in urban soil safely, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0087913\">study\u003c/a> by researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Center for a Livable Future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most gardeners understand that the soil in big cities is often \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/04/176257595/soil-lead-may-be-an-overlooked-threat-to-kids-health\">contaminated with lead\u003c/a> — and know to get their soil tested. But the researchers' interviews with 70 urban gardeners in Baltimore revealed that most are pretty clueless about how to avoid other types of contaminants — like heavy metals and asbestos — from getting into their vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that \"there might be contaminants that [gardeners] can't test for,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.livablefutureblog.com/about/brent-kim\">Brent Kim\u003c/a>, a program officer at the Center for a Livable Future. Most soil tests look for lead, cadmium and arsenic, he tells The Salt. But they don't test things petrochemicals left behind by cars, or cleaning solvents, which might have seeped into the soil from an old laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these chemicals — including the cleaning solvents lautromats used back in the day, and chemicals found in the exhaust of cars — are carcinogenic, and they're dangerous to ingest or even breath in. Asbestos left over from a building demolished years ago cause lung problems, as well. And children are especially vulnerable to all of these substances, Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you're thinking of starting an urban garden, Kim says, once you've have found a plot of land, you should learn its history. What's now an empty plot or a backyard might once have been a parking lot, a gas station or the site of a chemical spill, he says. \"Knowing the site history will give you some clues about what might be in that soil,\" Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And testing the soil and investigating the land's history are crucial whether or not you're planning on using raised beds. \"People tend to think raised beds are going to solve their contamination problem,\" Kim says. But contaminated soil could easily get kicked onto your plants, especially if the beds are low to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Another consideration is you have to be careful about the materials that you're using to build a raised bed,\" Kim says. Recycling wood from an old construction site might seem like a good, eco-friendly idea. But that wood could be treated with chemicals you don't want touching your fruits and veggies, Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after taking all those precautions, gardeners can never be 100 percent sure that they're in the clear, Kim says. So it's always a good idea to use gloves while gardening, and wash all your produce thoroughly. And if your young kids like to help out in the garden, you might want to clean them up as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this advice applies to all urban gardeners, Kim says, whether you're in charge of a small backyard plot, or a giant operation, like 140-acre \u003ca href=\"http://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/\">Hantz Farms\u003c/a> in Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, in Baltimore, over a quarter of the gardeners were relative newbies, with less than five years of experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim says there's no quick way to bridge the knowledge gap. But providing gardeners with the right resources is a first step. He and his colleagues have created an urban gardening \u003ca href=\"http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/projects/Urban-Soil-Safety/\">guide\u003c/a>. Baltimore residents can also check out an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.arcgis.com/apps/StorytellingTextLegend/index.html?appid=78b09d5b87f6416c966057b6ed092034\">map\u003c/a> of the city, which highlights sites where the risk of contamination is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other great resources include the U.S. Department of Agriculture's online \u003ca href=\"http://afsic.nal.usda.gov/farms-and-community/urban-agriculturehttp:/afsic.nal.usda.gov/farms-and-community/urban-agriculture\">guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see these urban growing spaces as these oases in the middle of these urban environments,\" Kim says. They bring communities together, and they help people save money on fresh produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Urban growing spaces are amazing,\" Kim says. \"Let's keeping doing this, but let's do it safely.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"More and more city dwellers are trying their hand at urban gardening. Most know to be wary of lead in their soil, a report finds, but they're clueless about how to avoid other types of contaminants.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1396731682,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":21,"wordCount":785},"headData":{"title":"Newbie Urban Gardeners May Not Be Aware Of Soil's Dirty Legacy | KQED","description":"More and more city dwellers are trying their hand at urban gardening. 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Photo: Sergio Ruiz. Flickr\" width=\"1674\" height=\"940\" class=\"size-full wp-image-80133\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Graze the Roof is a community-produced garden that grows vegetables on the rooftop of a church in San Francisco. Photo: \u003ca href=\"https://www.flickr.com/photos/urbanists/\">Sergio Ruiz/Flickr\u003c/a>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>by Maanvi Singh. \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/04/05/299051466/newbie-urban-gardeners-may-not-be-aware-of-soils-dirty-legacy\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (4/5/14)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The majority of Americans now live in cities, which means we have very little to do anymore with the production of our food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But there's a reversal of that trend afoot, as more city people decide that they want to cultivate crops and raise some livestock. After all, there are few things more satisfying that biting than a bunch of tender, red radishes you grew yourself, or a fresh egg from the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2013/08/07/209726394/want-to-be-a-chicken-farmer-try-it-before-you-commit\">backyard\u003c/a>.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to \u003ca href=\"http://assoc.garden.org/press/press.php?q=show&id=3819&pr=pr_nga\">figures\u003c/a> just released by the National Gardening Association, the number of American growing food in urban areas increased 29 percent between 2008 and 2013 from 7 million to 9 million people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But many of these city-dwelling gardeners still aren't aware of how to grow food in urban soil safely, according to a \u003ca href=\"http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0087913\">study\u003c/a> by researchers at Johns Hopkins University's Center for a Livable Future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most gardeners understand that the soil in big cities is often \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2013/04/04/176257595/soil-lead-may-be-an-overlooked-threat-to-kids-health\">contaminated with lead\u003c/a> — and know to get their soil tested. But the researchers' interviews with 70 urban gardeners in Baltimore revealed that most are pretty clueless about how to avoid other types of contaminants — like heavy metals and asbestos — from getting into their vegetables.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Part of the problem is that \"there might be contaminants that [gardeners] can't test for,\" says \u003ca href=\"http://www.livablefutureblog.com/about/brent-kim\">Brent Kim\u003c/a>, a program officer at the Center for a Livable Future. Most soil tests look for lead, cadmium and arsenic, he tells The Salt. But they don't test things petrochemicals left behind by cars, or cleaning solvents, which might have seeped into the soil from an old laundromat.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Many of these chemicals — including the cleaning solvents lautromats used back in the day, and chemicals found in the exhaust of cars — are carcinogenic, and they're dangerous to ingest or even breath in. Asbestos left over from a building demolished years ago cause lung problems, as well. And children are especially vulnerable to all of these substances, Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So if you're thinking of starting an urban garden, Kim says, once you've have found a plot of land, you should learn its history. What's now an empty plot or a backyard might once have been a parking lot, a gas station or the site of a chemical spill, he says. \"Knowing the site history will give you some clues about what might be in that soil,\" Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And testing the soil and investigating the land's history are crucial whether or not you're planning on using raised beds. \"People tend to think raised beds are going to solve their contamination problem,\" Kim says. But contaminated soil could easily get kicked onto your plants, especially if the beds are low to the ground.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Another consideration is you have to be careful about the materials that you're using to build a raised bed,\" Kim says. Recycling wood from an old construction site might seem like a good, eco-friendly idea. But that wood could be treated with chemicals you don't want touching your fruits and veggies, Kim says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Even after taking all those precautions, gardeners can never be 100 percent sure that they're in the clear, Kim says. So it's always a good idea to use gloves while gardening, and wash all your produce thoroughly. And if your young kids like to help out in the garden, you might want to clean them up as well.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>All of this advice applies to all urban gardeners, Kim says, whether you're in charge of a small backyard plot, or a giant operation, like 140-acre \u003ca href=\"http://www.hantzfarmsdetroit.com/\">Hantz Farms\u003c/a> in Detroit.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to the report, in Baltimore, over a quarter of the gardeners were relative newbies, with less than five years of experience.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Kim says there's no quick way to bridge the knowledge gap. But providing gardeners with the right resources is a first step. He and his colleagues have created an urban gardening \u003ca href=\"http://www.jhsph.edu/research/centers-and-institutes/johns-hopkins-center-for-a-livable-future/projects/Urban-Soil-Safety/\">guide\u003c/a>. Baltimore residents can also check out an interactive \u003ca href=\"http://www.arcgis.com/apps/StorytellingTextLegend/index.html?appid=78b09d5b87f6416c966057b6ed092034\">map\u003c/a> of the city, which highlights sites where the risk of contamination is high.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Other great resources include the U.S. Department of Agriculture's online \u003ca href=\"http://afsic.nal.usda.gov/farms-and-community/urban-agriculturehttp:/afsic.nal.usda.gov/farms-and-community/urban-agriculture\">guide.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I see these urban growing spaces as these oases in the middle of these urban environments,\" Kim says. They bring communities together, and they help people save money on fresh produce.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Urban growing spaces are amazing,\" Kim says. \"Let's keeping doing this, but let's do it safely.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2014 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/80132/newbie-urban-gardeners-may-not-be-aware-of-soils-dirty-legacy","authors":["byline_bayareabites_80132"],"categories":["bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_1245","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_2035"],"tags":["bayareabites_13244","bayareabites_13243","bayareabites_12168","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_2721"],"featImg":"bayareabites_80140","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_71019":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_71019","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"71019","score":null,"sort":[1380126699000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"rooftop-farming-is-getting-off-the-ground","title":"Rooftop Farming Is Getting Off The Ground ","publishDate":1380126699,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71032\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1120px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/rooftop-garden.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/rooftop-garden.jpg\" alt=\"Stacey Kimmons and Audra Lewicki harvest lettuce at the Chicago Botanic Garden's 20,000-square-foot vegetable garden atop McCormick Place West in Chicago. Photo: Courtesy of the Chicago Botanic Garden\" width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71032\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacey Kimmons and Audra Lewicki harvest lettuce at the Chicago Botanic Garden's 20,000-square-foot vegetable garden atop McCormick Place West in Chicago. Photo: Courtesy of the Chicago Botanic Garden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/24/225745012/why-aren-t-there-more-rooftop-farms\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/25/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From vacant lots to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/05/21/vertical-pinkhouses-the-future-of-urban-farming/\">vertical \"pinkhouses\u003c/a>,\" urban farmers are scouring cities for spaces to grow food. But their options vary widely from place to place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While farmers in post-industrial cities like Detroit and Cleveland are claiming unused land for cultivation, in New York and Chicago, land comes at a high premium. That's why farmers there are increasingly eyeing spaces that they might not have to wrestle from developers: rooftops that are already green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green-roof movement has slowly been gaining momentum in recent years, and some cities have made them central to their sustainability plans. The city of Chicago, for instance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dcd/supp_info/chicago_green_roofs.html\">boasts\u003c/a> that 359 roofs are now partially or fully covered with vegetation, which provides all kinds of environmental benefits — from reducing the buildings' energy costs to cleaning the air to mitigating the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160393303/as-temps-rise-cities-combat-heat-island-effect\">urban heat island effect.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late this summer, Chicago turned a green roof into its first major rooftop farm. At 20,000 square feet, it's the largest soil-based rooftop farm in the Midwest, according to the Chicago Botanic Garden, which maintains the farm through its \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagobotanic.org/windycityharvest/\">Windy City Harvest\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71031\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/rooftop-garden-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/rooftop-garden-1-290x216.jpg\" alt=\"Uncommon Ground, a certified green restaurant in Chicago, hosts an organic farm on its rooftop. Photo: Zoran Orlic of Zero Studio Photography/Uncommon Ground\" width=\"290\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71031\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncommon Ground, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uncommonground.com/pages/organic_roof_top_farm_home/200.php\">certified green\u003c/a> restaurant in Chicago, hosts an organic farm on its rooftop. Photo: Zoran Orlic of Zero Studio Photography/Uncommon Ground\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We took a space that was already a productive green roof, and we said, 'Why not take that one step further and grow vegetables on it?'\" says Angie Mason, director of the Chicago Botanic Garden's urban agriculture programs. That required adding lots of soil amendment, or nutrients, to the rocky medium already up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm sits atop \u003ca href=\"http://www.mccormickplace.com/\">McCormick Place\u003c/a>, the largest convention center in North America, and the goal is for it to supply the center's food service company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.savorchicagomcpl.com/\">SAVOR... Chicago\u003c/a>, with\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>between 8,000 to 12,000 pounds of food a year — more than 10,000 servings. It sounds like a lot, but SAVOR serves about 3 million people a year at McCormick Place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first season, Mason says the Windy City Harvest farmers, which include underemployed ex-offenders, will be growing kale, collards, carrots, radishes, peppers, beans, beets, cherry tomatoes and various herbs at the McCormick Place farm. The project's coordinators chose these crops because they're well-suited to a rooftop setting and they're fast-growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few years, Mason says, the plan is to expand the farm to other sections of the McCormick Center roof for a total of 3 acres of cultivation. That would make it the biggest rooftop farm in the U.S., bigger than \u003ca href=\"http://www.brooklyngrangefarm.com/aboutthegrange/\">Brooklyn Grange\u003c/a>, which operates a farm of 2.5 acres, or 108,000 square feet, on two roofs in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity/who/people/nasr/\">Joe Nasr\u003c/a>, with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ryerson.ca/content/ryerson/foodsecurity/index.html\">Centre for Studies in Food Security\u003c/a> at Ryerson University in Toronto, says projects like these are part of a larger trend toward expanding food production in cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rooftops will be part of the mix of urban spaces that will be increasingly used to 'scale up' urban agriculture,\" Nasr told The Salt in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And roof farms in particular can offer a wide array of perks to the building owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it is feasible to do so, you would be adding benefits to whatever the green roof [already] provides: food, space for community gathering and teaching in many cases, increased biodiversity (depending on the roof) and care for the roof — many green roofs fail because they are out of sight, out of mind, thus neglected,\" Nasr says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why don't we see more of these rooftop urban farms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mason, urban farmers are just beginning to figure out how to make them work. And they're learning that not every green roof is well-suited for farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're looking at liability and insurance risk of having people on a rooftop, and then you've got to make sure it's structurally sound enough to withstand the extra soil weight for production,\" says Mason. \"And you've got to make sure that you're training people so that they aren't compromising the rooftop membrane\" and damaging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nasr agrees that there are many obstacles to transforming more green roofs into farms: from permitting, to delivering soil and water to the roof, to dealing with growing conditions that are typical of roofs (sun, wind, snow).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for urban farmers who can find a roof and building owners who will get on board, the potential benefits are worth pursuing, he says. And Mason says she sees plenty of opportunity in Chicago to convert more green roofs into farms — and plenty of building owners interested in burnishing their green credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, you don't have to go as big as a farm to take advantage of the space and sunlight on a roof to grow food. People have been container-gardening on roofs for a long time, and as we reported, this form of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/09/why-micro-gardening-could-go-big/\">micro-gardening is taking off.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Urban farmers are eyeing rooftops that are already green as potential sites to grow food. 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Photo: Courtesy of the Chicago Botanic Garden\" width=\"1120\" height=\"630\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71032\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacey Kimmons and Audra Lewicki harvest lettuce at the Chicago Botanic Garden's 20,000-square-foot vegetable garden atop McCormick Place West in Chicago. Photo: Courtesy of the Chicago Botanic Garden\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/09/24/225745012/why-aren-t-there-more-rooftop-farms\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (9/25/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>From vacant lots to \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/05/21/vertical-pinkhouses-the-future-of-urban-farming/\">vertical \"pinkhouses\u003c/a>,\" urban farmers are scouring cities for spaces to grow food. But their options vary widely from place to place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While farmers in post-industrial cities like Detroit and Cleveland are claiming unused land for cultivation, in New York and Chicago, land comes at a high premium. That's why farmers there are increasingly eyeing spaces that they might not have to wrestle from developers: rooftops that are already green.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The green-roof movement has slowly been gaining momentum in recent years, and some cities have made them central to their sustainability plans. The city of Chicago, for instance, \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityofchicago.org/city/en/depts/dcd/supp_info/chicago_green_roofs.html\">boasts\u003c/a> that 359 roofs are now partially or fully covered with vegetation, which provides all kinds of environmental benefits — from reducing the buildings' energy costs to cleaning the air to mitigating the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/2012/09/04/160393303/as-temps-rise-cities-combat-heat-island-effect\">urban heat island effect.\u003c/a>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Late this summer, Chicago turned a green roof into its first major rooftop farm. At 20,000 square feet, it's the largest soil-based rooftop farm in the Midwest, according to the Chicago Botanic Garden, which maintains the farm through its \u003ca href=\"http://www.chicagobotanic.org/windycityharvest/\">Windy City Harvest\u003c/a> program.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_71031\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/rooftop-garden-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/09/rooftop-garden-1-290x216.jpg\" alt=\"Uncommon Ground, a certified green restaurant in Chicago, hosts an organic farm on its rooftop. Photo: Zoran Orlic of Zero Studio Photography/Uncommon Ground\" width=\"290\" height=\"216\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-71031\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Uncommon Ground, a \u003ca href=\"http://www.uncommonground.com/pages/organic_roof_top_farm_home/200.php\">certified green\u003c/a> restaurant in Chicago, hosts an organic farm on its rooftop. Photo: Zoran Orlic of Zero Studio Photography/Uncommon Ground\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"We took a space that was already a productive green roof, and we said, 'Why not take that one step further and grow vegetables on it?'\" says Angie Mason, director of the Chicago Botanic Garden's urban agriculture programs. That required adding lots of soil amendment, or nutrients, to the rocky medium already up there.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The farm sits atop \u003ca href=\"http://www.mccormickplace.com/\">McCormick Place\u003c/a>, the largest convention center in North America, and the goal is for it to supply the center's food service company, \u003ca href=\"http://www.savorchicagomcpl.com/\">SAVOR... Chicago\u003c/a>, with\u003cstrong> \u003c/strong>between 8,000 to 12,000 pounds of food a year — more than 10,000 servings. It sounds like a lot, but SAVOR serves about 3 million people a year at McCormick Place.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the first season, Mason says the Windy City Harvest farmers, which include underemployed ex-offenders, will be growing kale, collards, carrots, radishes, peppers, beans, beets, cherry tomatoes and various herbs at the McCormick Place farm. The project's coordinators chose these crops because they're well-suited to a rooftop setting and they're fast-growing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Over the next few years, Mason says, the plan is to expand the farm to other sections of the McCormick Center roof for a total of 3 acres of cultivation. That would make it the biggest rooftop farm in the U.S., bigger than \u003ca href=\"http://www.brooklyngrangefarm.com/aboutthegrange/\">Brooklyn Grange\u003c/a>, which operates a farm of 2.5 acres, or 108,000 square feet, on two roofs in New York City.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"http://www.ryerson.ca/foodsecurity/who/people/nasr/\">Joe Nasr\u003c/a>, with the \u003ca href=\"http://www.ryerson.ca/content/ryerson/foodsecurity/index.html\">Centre for Studies in Food Security\u003c/a> at Ryerson University in Toronto, says projects like these are part of a larger trend toward expanding food production in cities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Rooftops will be part of the mix of urban spaces that will be increasingly used to 'scale up' urban agriculture,\" Nasr told The Salt in an email.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And roof farms in particular can offer a wide array of perks to the building owners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When it is feasible to do so, you would be adding benefits to whatever the green roof [already] provides: food, space for community gathering and teaching in many cases, increased biodiversity (depending on the roof) and care for the roof — many green roofs fail because they are out of sight, out of mind, thus neglected,\" Nasr says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So why don't we see more of these rooftop urban farms?\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>According to Mason, urban farmers are just beginning to figure out how to make them work. And they're learning that not every green roof is well-suited for farming.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"You're looking at liability and insurance risk of having people on a rooftop, and then you've got to make sure it's structurally sound enough to withstand the extra soil weight for production,\" says Mason. \"And you've got to make sure that you're training people so that they aren't compromising the rooftop membrane\" and damaging it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nasr agrees that there are many obstacles to transforming more green roofs into farms: from permitting, to delivering soil and water to the roof, to dealing with growing conditions that are typical of roofs (sun, wind, snow).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But for urban farmers who can find a roof and building owners who will get on board, the potential benefits are worth pursuing, he says. And Mason says she sees plenty of opportunity in Chicago to convert more green roofs into farms — and plenty of building owners interested in burnishing their green credentials.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Of course, you don't have to go as big as a farm to take advantage of the space and sunlight on a roof to grow food. People have been container-gardening on roofs for a long time, and as we reported, this form of \u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/09/why-micro-gardening-could-go-big/\">micro-gardening is taking off.\u003c/a> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Copyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/71019/rooftop-farming-is-getting-off-the-ground","authors":["byline_bayareabites_71019"],"categories":["bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_1962","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_4084","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916"],"tags":["bayareabites_12451","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_10105","bayareabites_2721","bayareabites_11021"],"featImg":"bayareabites_71030","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_64893":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_64893","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"64893","score":null,"sort":[1373388822000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"why-micro-gardening-could-go-big","title":"Why Micro-Gardening Could Go Big","publishDate":1373388822,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64901\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1024px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/micro-garden.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/micro-garden-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"Phil Weiner, co-founder and CEO of Earth Starter, says the Nourishmat can produce 15 to 20 pounds of food per year. Photo: Courtesy of Earth Starter\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64901\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Weiner, co-founder and CEO of Earth Starter, says the Nourishmat can produce 15 to 20 pounds of food per year. Photo: Courtesy of Earth Starter\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/09/197998315/why-micro-gardening-could-go-big\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/9/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most urban consumers are happy to leave farming to the farmers, but for those with a green thumb, it is getting easier to garden in the city. That's thanks, in part, to DIYers sharing ideas for the creative reuse of old materials and a new range of tools designed to get many more people involved with growing some of their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has lately been talking about micro-gardens as critical way to help the urban poor get more food on the table. The FAO \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/greenercities/pdf/FS/UPH-FS-6.pdf\">defines\u003c/a> micro-gardens as small spaces — such as balconies, small yards, patios and rooftops — cultivated with containers such as plastic-lined wooden boxes, trash cans and even old car tires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's probably tough to sustain a family on a micro-garden, FAO research shows that a well-tended micro-garden of 11 square feet can produce as much as 200 tomatoes a year, 36 heads of lettuce every 60 days, 10 cabbages every 90 days, and 100 onions every 120 days.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, micro-gardens can easily be created out of plenty of scrap materials: potatoes grown in a bucket or trash can, for example, or \u003ca href=\"http://themicrogardener.com/20-creative-ways-to-upcycle-pallets-in-your-garden/\">wooden pallets\u003c/a> turned into an herb garden. Anne Gibson, an Australian who runs \u003ca href=\"http://themicrogardener.com\">The Micro Gardener \u003c/a>website, has aggregated many of the most creative ideas. And for folks who don't want to DIY it, several companies are also making it easy to start a micro-garden with an array of new products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earth Starter is one such start-up. This month, the company launched a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083391547/nourishmat-changing-the-way-wethink-about-food\">Kickstarter\u003c/a> campaign to manufacture more of its all-in-one roll out garden tool, called a Nourishmat. The Nourishmat, which is inspired by \u003ca href=\"http://www.squarefootgardening.org/?page_id=1607\" target=\"_blank\">Square Foot Gardening\u003c/a>, makes it easy to grow a lot of food in a 4-foot by 6-foot space by turning a plastic mat into a garden planting guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mat comes with seedballs (seeds mixed with clay and worm castings to enrich the soil, and chili powder to keep pests away). To plant, you simply lay out the mat on top of a bed of soil, then stick the seedballs for the 18 different vegetables and herbs in their respective holes. (Urban residents who may have soil \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/09/29/130212437/fresh-vegetables-but-hold-the-lead\">contaminated with lead\u003c/a> and other heavy metals will have to build a raised bed and fill it with clean soil.) The mat also doubles as a weed barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64900\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/micro-garden-nourishmat.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/micro-garden-nourishmat-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Earth Starter launched a Kickstarter campaign on July 1 to raise money to manufacture more Nourishmats. Photo: Courtesy of Earth Starter\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64900\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earth Starter launched a Kickstarter campaign on July 1 to raise money to manufacture more Nourishmats. Photo: Courtesy of Earth Starter\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Gorby and \u003ca href=\"http://nourishmat.com/team/\">Phil Weiner\u003c/a>, who founded in the company in 2011 while they were undergraduates at the University of Maryland, College Park, believe that there's a big market of people who want to garden but need this kind of help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone in the world should have a victory garden,\" says Weiner, referring to the food gardens that thousands of citizens of the U.S, U.K. and elsewhere planted during WWI and WWII to improve their food security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But the most common excuses we heard for why more people don't spend more time gardening were 'I don't know what I'm doing,' or 'I don't have time,' or 'I don't have space,' \" Weiner tells The Salt. He grew up gardening with his family in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Weiner and his partner have beta-tested the product with people in 22 states. They estimate that users can grow $200 worth of produce in one season and 25 to 30 pounds of food in a year. The mats can be replanted for three to five years, Weiner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the mats are only available to people who donate to the Kickstarter fund, but Weiner and Gorby hope to raise enough money to eventually manufacture them on a big enough scale to sell nationwide. Weiner says he expects to charge $40 for the basic kit, and $79 for a deluxe kit with an irrigation system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nourishmats may be an intriguing option for people with small yards, but what's an apartment dweller to do? Fortunately, there has been an explosion in indoor or balcony hydroponic systems. We covered the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125504307\">window farming movement\u003c/a> a few years back, and it's still going strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And recently, Treehugger.com put together \u003ca href=\"http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/gadgets/12-plug-and-play-home-hydroponics-systems/#slide-top\">a slideshow\u003c/a> of 12 different plug-and-play hydroponic systems for indoor micro-gardening, ranging from aeroponics, a method of growing plants in hanging containers with little to no soil, to aquaponics, which involves growing plants (or fish) directly in water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plastic and ceramic pots and wooden boxes are also tried-and-true containers for gardening on balconies and deck, but there's been innovation in these containers, too. A few companies have developed polypropylene bags – designed to be porous and lightweight – for growing potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and other crops. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/new-from-gardeners-supply-colorful-grow-bags-grow-almost-any-edible-for-30-1398904.htm\">According to\u003c/a> Gardener's Supply, one company that sells these grow bags, polypropylene fabric is superior because it \"'breathes' and 'air-prunes' roots.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Micro-gardens are small spaces, such as balconies, patios and rooftops, cultivated with planting containers like wooden boxes and trash cans. Now, creative reuse of old materials and some new tools for sale are making it easier for urban dwellers to stretch their green thumbs.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1373388822,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":17,"wordCount":882},"headData":{"title":"Why Micro-Gardening Could Go Big | KQED","description":"Micro-gardens are small spaces, such as balconies, patios and rooftops, cultivated with planting containers like wooden boxes and trash cans. 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Photo: Courtesy of Earth Starter\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" class=\"size-large wp-image-64901\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Phil Weiner, co-founder and CEO of Earth Starter, says the Nourishmat can produce 15 to 20 pounds of food per year. Photo: Courtesy of Earth Starter\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Post by Eliza Barclay, \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/07/09/197998315/why-micro-gardening-could-go-big\">The Salt at NPR Food\u003c/a> (7/9/13)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Most urban consumers are happy to leave farming to the farmers, but for those with a green thumb, it is getting easier to garden in the city. That's thanks, in part, to DIYers sharing ideas for the creative reuse of old materials and a new range of tools designed to get many more people involved with growing some of their own food.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization has lately been talking about micro-gardens as critical way to help the urban poor get more food on the table. The FAO \u003ca href=\"http://www.fao.org/ag/agp/greenercities/pdf/FS/UPH-FS-6.pdf\">defines\u003c/a> micro-gardens as small spaces — such as balconies, small yards, patios and rooftops — cultivated with containers such as plastic-lined wooden boxes, trash cans and even old car tires.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>While it's probably tough to sustain a family on a micro-garden, FAO research shows that a well-tended micro-garden of 11 square feet can produce as much as 200 tomatoes a year, 36 heads of lettuce every 60 days, 10 cabbages every 90 days, and 100 onions every 120 days.\u003cstrong>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sure, micro-gardens can easily be created out of plenty of scrap materials: potatoes grown in a bucket or trash can, for example, or \u003ca href=\"http://themicrogardener.com/20-creative-ways-to-upcycle-pallets-in-your-garden/\">wooden pallets\u003c/a> turned into an herb garden. Anne Gibson, an Australian who runs \u003ca href=\"http://themicrogardener.com\">The Micro Gardener \u003c/a>website, has aggregated many of the most creative ideas. And for folks who don't want to DIY it, several companies are also making it easy to start a micro-garden with an array of new products.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Earth Starter is one such start-up. This month, the company launched a \u003ca href=\"http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2083391547/nourishmat-changing-the-way-wethink-about-food\">Kickstarter\u003c/a> campaign to manufacture more of its all-in-one roll out garden tool, called a Nourishmat. The Nourishmat, which is inspired by \u003ca href=\"http://www.squarefootgardening.org/?page_id=1607\" target=\"_blank\">Square Foot Gardening\u003c/a>, makes it easy to grow a lot of food in a 4-foot by 6-foot space by turning a plastic mat into a garden planting guide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The mat comes with seedballs (seeds mixed with clay and worm castings to enrich the soil, and chili powder to keep pests away). To plant, you simply lay out the mat on top of a bed of soil, then stick the seedballs for the 18 different vegetables and herbs in their respective holes. (Urban residents who may have soil \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/09/29/130212437/fresh-vegetables-but-hold-the-lead\">contaminated with lead\u003c/a> and other heavy metals will have to build a raised bed and fill it with clean soil.) The mat also doubles as a weed barrier.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64900\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 290px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/micro-garden-nourishmat.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/07/micro-garden-nourishmat-290x217.jpg\" alt=\"Earth Starter launched a Kickstarter campaign on July 1 to raise money to manufacture more Nourishmats. Photo: Courtesy of Earth Starter\" width=\"290\" height=\"217\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-64900\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earth Starter launched a Kickstarter campaign on July 1 to raise money to manufacture more Nourishmats. Photo: Courtesy of Earth Starter\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>John Gorby and \u003ca href=\"http://nourishmat.com/team/\">Phil Weiner\u003c/a>, who founded in the company in 2011 while they were undergraduates at the University of Maryland, College Park, believe that there's a big market of people who want to garden but need this kind of help.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Everyone in the world should have a victory garden,\" says Weiner, referring to the food gardens that thousands of citizens of the U.S, U.K. and elsewhere planted during WWI and WWII to improve their food security.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"But the most common excuses we heard for why more people don't spend more time gardening were 'I don't know what I'm doing,' or 'I don't have time,' or 'I don't have space,' \" Weiner tells The Salt. He grew up gardening with his family in Washington, D.C.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>So far, Weiner and his partner have beta-tested the product with people in 22 states. They estimate that users can grow $200 worth of produce in one season and 25 to 30 pounds of food in a year. The mats can be replanted for three to five years, Weiner says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Right now, the mats are only available to people who donate to the Kickstarter fund, but Weiner and Gorby hope to raise enough money to eventually manufacture them on a big enough scale to sell nationwide. Weiner says he expects to charge $40 for the basic kit, and $79 for a deluxe kit with an irrigation system.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Nourishmats may be an intriguing option for people with small yards, but what's an apartment dweller to do? Fortunately, there has been an explosion in indoor or balcony hydroponic systems. We covered the \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125504307\">window farming movement\u003c/a> a few years back, and it's still going strong.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>And recently, Treehugger.com put together \u003ca href=\"http://www.treehugger.com/slideshows/gadgets/12-plug-and-play-home-hydroponics-systems/#slide-top\">a slideshow\u003c/a> of 12 different plug-and-play hydroponic systems for indoor micro-gardening, ranging from aeroponics, a method of growing plants in hanging containers with little to no soil, to aquaponics, which involves growing plants (or fish) directly in water.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Plastic and ceramic pots and wooden boxes are also tried-and-true containers for gardening on balconies and deck, but there's been innovation in these containers, too. A few companies have developed polypropylene bags – designed to be porous and lightweight – for growing potatoes, tomatoes, peppers and other crops. \u003ca href=\"http://www.marketwire.com/press-release/new-from-gardeners-supply-colorful-grow-bags-grow-almost-any-edible-for-30-1398904.htm\">According to\u003c/a> Gardener's Supply, one company that sells these grow bags, polypropylene fabric is superior because it \"'breathes' and 'air-prunes' roots.\"\u003cbr>\n\u003cem>\u003cbr>\nCopyright 2013 \u003ca href=\"http://www.npr.org/\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em> \u003c/p>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/64893/why-micro-gardening-could-go-big","authors":["byline_bayareabites_64893"],"categories":["bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_10916","bayareabites_60"],"tags":["bayareabites_11964","bayareabites_11963","bayareabites_11966","bayareabites_11962","bayareabites_11967","bayareabites_10921","bayareabites_11965","bayareabites_2721"],"featImg":"bayareabites_64901","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_64227":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_64227","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"64227","score":null,"sort":[1372712193000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"urban-farmers-offers-6-tips-for-turning-brown-thumbs-green","title":"Urban Farmers Offer 6 Tips for Turning Brown Thumbs Green","publishDate":1372712193,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-1.jpg\" alt='Lori Eanes, author of \"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\" Photo: Tilde Herrera' width=\"1000\" height=\"653\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64231\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Eanes, author of \"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Photographer Lori Eanes became fascinated with urban farmers after reading books about the downside of our industrial food system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the down economy left her with time on her hands and searching for a fun project, she focused her lens on the people who have turned their backyards into farms in West Coast cities from Berkeley up to Vancouver. Their farms and stories take center stage in her new book, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\">Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They are all pretty unique, but many have the same goals,\" Eanes says. \"They want to eat healthy, they are usually into sustainability. They want organic [food], to not be a part of factory food.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64234\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-2.jpg\" alt='\"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers\"' width=\"200\" height=\"229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64234\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Backyard Roots: Lessons on living local from 35 urban farmers\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet each had different approaches to urban farming. Some were forced into activism and worked to changed laws, including Laura Allen of Oakland, an urban farmer whose efforts contributed to new regulations making it easier to use greywater for residential irrigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others turned their backyard farms into business opportunities. Krista and David Arias, for example, transformed their Portland, Oregon, urban farm into a bed-and-breakfast; while Seattle's Joan Engelmeyer combined her art career and urban farm to create the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityartfarm.com/City_Art_Farm/Home.html\">City Art Farm\u003c/a> program for kids. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like Farm Saeturn, just had cool backstories that illustrated their connection to the soil. Saeturn -- yes, her first name is really Farm -- tends several plots in a Seattle community garden the same way her family once did before they were forced to flee her native Laos: with a machete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was just up there, she was chopping up plants with a machete on a wood block and adding it to the soil immediately,\" Eanes says. \"I love seeing her because she's always wearing these crazy patterns with a great big hat. She's from another world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eanes actually met more than 70 urban farmers but couldn't include them all in the book, so she started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.backyardrootsbook.com/\" title=\"Backyard Roots blog\" target=\"_blank\">blog\u003c/a> to continue the journey. Ultimately, she hopes the project will get people thinking about all the neat things they can grow in their own backyards or outdoor spaces, even if it's just a window ledge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The whole book is about being inspired and getting ideas,\" she says. \"I just wanted this book to give some hope and show here's what you can do without a lot of money and it's really fun.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's not too late to still take advantage of the Bay Area's 10-month growing season, says Birgitt Evans, an Alameda County master gardener spotlighted in Eanes' book and co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://pollinatefarm.com/\">Pollinate Farm & Garden\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between now and August, we can still plant many summer crops, such as zucchini, cucumber, beans, winter squash, basil, tomatoes (determinate tomatoes that take less time to produce), corn and all the root crops, including carrots, beets, parsnips and turnips, Evans says. In early August, she recommends starting seedlings for crops such as cauliflower, broccoli and kale, all of which can be transplanted into the ground in September. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-3.jpg\" alt=\"Evans, a master gardener, recommends talking to neighbors to find out what grows well in your neighborhood. Photo credit: Lori Eanes\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64241\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evans recommends talking to neighbors to find out what grows well in your neighborhood. Photo credit: Lori Eanes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You don't have to have the ambition of an urban farmer to grow simple edibles for your table, Evans and Eanes say. We asked both, along with Heidi Kooy, a San Francisco urban farmer in \"Backyard Roots,\" for advice to help people get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Start small\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You don't need to invest a lot of money to get your garden off the ground. If you take on too much, you might get overwhelmed. Perhaps start with a couple quick wins, such as herbs and lettuces, before you begin experimenting and expanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Take advantage of your available light and soil\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pick the brightest spot in your outdoor space for most crops, but you can also take advantage of crops that grow well in partial sun, such as leafy greens. Kooy recommends doing an analysis of your soil to get an idea of any heavy metals that might be present. Build up the soil with compost mixed into the top soil before planting, or as a side dressing around crops already planted. Consider adding nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers since most California soils are deficient in these nutrients, Evans says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Soil is the basis for everything in your garden,\" Evans says. \"That soil is going to help you get healthy plants, and healthy plants will resist diseases much better than unhealthy plants.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>3. Grow things you like to eat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eanes grows snow peas, greens and tomatoes in her backyard -- all things she loves to to eat, therefore ensuring nothing goes to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-4.jpg\" alt=\"Eanes showing off tomatoes planted in her rooftop garden in Bernal Heights. Photo: Tilde Herrera\" width=\"1000\" height=\"753\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eanes grows tomato plants on her rooftop garden in Bernal Heights.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People are forever asking what they should plant,\" Evans says. \"My answer is always: What do you like to eat? There's nothing sadder than growing something in your garden and have it end up in the compost pile. I say this from a personal experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Grow things that grow well in your area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kooy knows she doesn't get much heat in her San Francisco backyard so she avoids tomatoes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I can grow kale, lettuce and peas like nobody's business,\" Kooy says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-5.jpg\" alt=\"Heidi Kooy tends to produce and livestock in her Excelsior district backyard farm in San Francisco. Photo: Lori Eanes \" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64246\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heidi Kooy tends to produce and livestock in her Excelsior district backyard farm in San Francisco. Photo: Lori Eanes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Evans recommends talking with your neighbors who already grow edibles to find out what works well in your area. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Work out how much you can eat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It sounds like common sense, but once you harvest your crops, you have to eat them, Eanes says. Work out how much of a crop you can eat and plan accordingly. Give away or trade what you can't consume. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crop swaps are becoming very popular,\" Evans says. \"I don't have chickens in my yard, but I know a lady who's got 25 chickens, so I trade various things with her in exchange for eggs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. Just keep trying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many people think they have brown thumbs, but everyone, even accomplished urban farmers, feel the brown thumb syndrome at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"You have to realize that failure is inevitable for every gardener,\" Kooy says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The biggest challenge for aspiring gardeners is the fear of failing, Evans says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many are afraid to take a packet of seeds and plant them because they're afraid they might fail,\" she says. \"But all of us fail, even those of us who've been doing this for 30-plus years. I just planted parsnips but I need to go back and replant parsnips because they didn't come up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Where to buy \"Backyard Roots\"\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\" title=\"Mountaineers Books\" target=\"_blank\">Mountaineers Books\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Ecology Center in Berkeley; Books Inc., Green Arcade, Omnivore Books in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Additional resources:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://acmg.ucdavis.edu\" title=\"Alameda County Master Gardeners website\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County Master Gardeners\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>UC Master Gardener Program's \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/sites/gardenweb/\" title=\"California Garden Web\" target=\"_blank\">California Garden Web\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ipm.ucdavis.edu/\" title=\"Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\" target=\"_blank\">Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eco-sf.org/\" title=\"Eco SF\" target=\"_blank\">The Ecology Center of San Francisco\u003c/a> (Eco SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfuaa.org/\" title=\"SF Agricultural Alliance\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Agriculture Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n","blocks":[],"excerpt":"Author Lori Eanes and two Bay Area urban farmers share tips on how to get you growing crops in your backyard.","status":"publish","parent":0,"modified":1441392809,"stats":{"hasAudio":false,"hasVideo":false,"hasChartOrMap":false,"iframeSrcs":[],"hasGoogleForm":false,"hasGallery":false,"hasHearkenModule":false,"hasPolis":false,"paragraphCount":28,"wordCount":1188},"headData":{"title":"Urban Farmers Offer 6 Tips for Turning Brown Thumbs Green | KQED","description":"Author Lori Eanes and two Bay Area urban farmers share tips on how to get you growing crops in your backyard.","ogTitle":"","ogDescription":"","ogImgId":"","twTitle":"","twDescription":"","twImgId":""},"disqusIdentifier":"64227 http://blogs.kqed.org/bayareabites/?p=64227","disqusUrl":"https://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/2013/07/01/urban-farmers-offers-6-tips-for-turning-brown-thumbs-green/","disqusTitle":"Urban Farmers Offer 6 Tips for Turning Brown Thumbs Green","path":"/bayareabites/64227/urban-farmers-offers-6-tips-for-turning-brown-thumbs-green","audioTrackLength":null,"parsedContent":[{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64231\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-1.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-1.jpg\" alt='Lori Eanes, author of \"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\" Photo: Tilde Herrera' width=\"1000\" height=\"653\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64231\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lori Eanes, author of \"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Photographer Lori Eanes became fascinated with urban farmers after reading books about the downside of our industrial food system. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When the down economy left her with time on her hands and searching for a fun project, she focused her lens on the people who have turned their backyards into farms in West Coast cities from Berkeley up to Vancouver. Their farms and stories take center stage in her new book, \"\u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\">Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers.\u003c/a>\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"They are all pretty unique, but many have the same goals,\" Eanes says. \"They want to eat healthy, they are usually into sustainability. They want organic [food], to not be a part of factory food.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64234\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\" style=\"max-width: 200px\">\u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-2.jpg\" alt='\"Backyard Roots: Lessons on Living Local From 35 Urban Farmers\"' width=\"200\" height=\"229\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64234\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">\"Backyard Roots: Lessons on living local from 35 urban farmers\"\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Yet each had different approaches to urban farming. Some were forced into activism and worked to changed laws, including Laura Allen of Oakland, an urban farmer whose efforts contributed to new regulations making it easier to use greywater for residential irrigation. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Others turned their backyard farms into business opportunities. Krista and David Arias, for example, transformed their Portland, Oregon, urban farm into a bed-and-breakfast; while Seattle's Joan Engelmeyer combined her art career and urban farm to create the \u003ca href=\"http://www.cityartfarm.com/City_Art_Farm/Home.html\">City Art Farm\u003c/a> program for kids. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Some, like Farm Saeturn, just had cool backstories that illustrated their connection to the soil. Saeturn -- yes, her first name is really Farm -- tends several plots in a Seattle community garden the same way her family once did before they were forced to flee her native Laos: with a machete.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"fullwidth"},"numeric":["fullwidth"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"When I was just up there, she was chopping up plants with a machete on a wood block and adding it to the soil immediately,\" Eanes says. \"I love seeing her because she's always wearing these crazy patterns with a great big hat. She's from another world.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eanes actually met more than 70 urban farmers but couldn't include them all in the book, so she started a \u003ca href=\"http://www.backyardrootsbook.com/\" title=\"Backyard Roots blog\" target=\"_blank\">blog\u003c/a> to continue the journey. Ultimately, she hopes the project will get people thinking about all the neat things they can grow in their own backyards or outdoor spaces, even if it's just a window ledge. \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"The whole book is about being inspired and getting ideas,\" she says. \"I just wanted this book to give some hope and show here's what you can do without a lot of money and it's really fun.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>It's not too late to still take advantage of the Bay Area's 10-month growing season, says Birgitt Evans, an Alameda County master gardener spotlighted in Eanes' book and co-owner of \u003ca href=\"http://pollinatefarm.com/\">Pollinate Farm & Garden\u003c/a> in Oakland.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Between now and August, we can still plant many summer crops, such as zucchini, cucumber, beans, winter squash, basil, tomatoes (determinate tomatoes that take less time to produce), corn and all the root crops, including carrots, beets, parsnips and turnips, Evans says. In early August, she recommends starting seedlings for crops such as cauliflower, broccoli and kale, all of which can be transplanted into the ground in September. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64241\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-3.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-3.jpg\" alt=\"Evans, a master gardener, recommends talking to neighbors to find out what grows well in your neighborhood. Photo credit: Lori Eanes\" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64241\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Evans recommends talking to neighbors to find out what grows well in your neighborhood. Photo credit: Lori Eanes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>You don't have to have the ambition of an urban farmer to grow simple edibles for your table, Evans and Eanes say. We asked both, along with Heidi Kooy, a San Francisco urban farmer in \"Backyard Roots,\" for advice to help people get started.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>1. Start small\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>You don't need to invest a lot of money to get your garden off the ground. If you take on too much, you might get overwhelmed. Perhaps start with a couple quick wins, such as herbs and lettuces, before you begin experimenting and expanding.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>2. Take advantage of your available light and soil\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Pick the brightest spot in your outdoor space for most crops, but you can also take advantage of crops that grow well in partial sun, such as leafy greens. Kooy recommends doing an analysis of your soil to get an idea of any heavy metals that might be present. Build up the soil with compost mixed into the top soil before planting, or as a side dressing around crops already planted. Consider adding nitrogen and phosphorus fertilizers since most California soils are deficient in these nutrients, Evans says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"Soil is the basis for everything in your garden,\" Evans says. \"That soil is going to help you get healthy plants, and healthy plants will resist diseases much better than unhealthy plants.\"\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003ch2>3. Grow things you like to eat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Eanes grows snow peas, greens and tomatoes in her backyard -- all things she loves to to eat, therefore ensuring nothing goes to waste.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64238\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1000px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-4.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-4.jpg\" alt=\"Eanes showing off tomatoes planted in her rooftop garden in Bernal Heights. Photo: Tilde Herrera\" width=\"1000\" height=\"753\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64238\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eanes grows tomato plants on her rooftop garden in Bernal Heights.\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\"People are forever asking what they should plant,\" Evans says. \"My answer is always: What do you like to eat? There's nothing sadder than growing something in your garden and have it end up in the compost pile. I say this from a personal experience.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>4. Grow things that grow well in your area\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Kooy knows she doesn't get much heat in her San Francisco backyard so she avoids tomatoes. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"I know I can grow kale, lettuce and peas like nobody's business,\" Kooy says. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_64246\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 500px\">\u003ca href=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-5.jpg\">\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2013/06/BAB-farmers-5.jpg\" alt=\"Heidi Kooy tends to produce and livestock in her Excelsior district backyard farm in San Francisco. Photo: Lori Eanes \" width=\"500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-64246\">\u003c/a>\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heidi Kooy tends to produce and livestock in her Excelsior district backyard farm in San Francisco. Photo: Lori Eanes\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Evans recommends talking with your neighbors who already grow edibles to find out what works well in your area. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>5. Work out how much you can eat\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>It sounds like common sense, but once you harvest your crops, you have to eat them, Eanes says. Work out how much of a crop you can eat and plan accordingly. Give away or trade what you can't consume. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Crop swaps are becoming very popular,\" Evans says. \"I don't have chickens in my yard, but I know a lady who's got 25 chickens, so I trade various things with her in exchange for eggs.\"\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>6. Just keep trying\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>Many people think they have brown thumbs, but everyone, even accomplished urban farmers, feel the brown thumb syndrome at some point.\u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\"You have to realize that failure is inevitable for every gardener,\" Kooy says.\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>The biggest challenge for aspiring gardeners is the fear of failing, Evans says.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}},{"type":"component","content":"","name":"ad","attributes":{"named":{"label":"floatright"},"numeric":["floatright"]}},{"type":"contentString","content":"\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\"Many are afraid to take a packet of seeds and plant them because they're afraid they might fail,\" she says. \"But all of us fail, even those of us who've been doing this for 30-plus years. I just planted parsnips but I need to go back and replant parsnips because they didn't come up.\" \u003c/p>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Where to buy \"Backyard Roots\"\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>Online at \u003ca href=\"http://www.mountaineersbooks.org/Backyard-Roots-P1112.aspx\" title=\"Mountaineers Books\" target=\"_blank\">Mountaineers Books\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>The Ecology Center in Berkeley; Books Inc., Green Arcade, Omnivore Books in San Francisco.\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\u003cul>\n\u003cstrong>Additional resources:\u003c/strong>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://acmg.ucdavis.edu\" title=\"Alameda County Master Gardeners website\" target=\"_blank\">Alameda County Master Gardeners\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>UC Master Gardener Program's \u003ca href=\"http://ucanr.edu/sites/gardenweb/\" title=\"California Garden Web\" target=\"_blank\">California Garden Web\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://ipm.ucdavis.edu/\" title=\"Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\" target=\"_blank\">Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.eco-sf.org/\" title=\"Eco SF\" target=\"_blank\">The Ecology Center of San Francisco\u003c/a> (Eco SF)\u003c/li>\n\u003cli>\u003ca href=\"http://www.sfuaa.org/\" title=\"SF Agricultural Alliance\" target=\"_blank\">San Francisco Agriculture Alliance\u003c/a>\u003c/li>\n\u003c/ul>\n\n\u003c/div>\u003c/p>","attributes":{"named":{},"numeric":[]}}],"link":"/bayareabites/64227/urban-farmers-offers-6-tips-for-turning-brown-thumbs-green","authors":["5392"],"categories":["bayareabites_109","bayareabites_2638","bayareabites_1874","bayareabites_2554","bayareabites_60","bayareabites_1593"],"tags":["bayareabites_10010","bayareabites_11449","bayareabites_11910","bayareabites_11912","bayareabites_2721"],"featImg":"bayareabites_64395","label":"bayareabites"},"bayareabites_6901":{"type":"posts","id":"bayareabites_6901","meta":{"index":"posts_1591205157","site":"bayareabites","id":"6901","score":null,"sort":[1253635465000]},"guestAuthors":[],"slug":"free-farmstand","title":"Free Farm Stand","publishDate":1253635465,"format":"aside","headTitle":"Bay Area Bites | KQED Food","labelTerm":{"site":"bayareabites"},"content":"\u003cp>\u003cimg src=\"http://ww2.kqed.org/bayareabites/wp-content/uploads/sites/24/2009/09/freefarmstand-bounty.jpg\" alt=\"free farmstand bounty\" title=\"free farmstand bounty\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6923\">\u003cbr>\nBeing a writer, I've worked a lot of retail over the years. I've sold flown-from-Switzerland chocolates to San Francisco socialites who spent more on three boxes of truffles than I made in a week. I've peddled Pez and Camel Lights from a tray slung around my neck, squeezed ladies (and gents) into latex dresses and leather corsets, frothed lattes for bond traders, boxed up cookies and talked tourists into overpriced art on Union Square.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In my personal life, I'm not a shopper, but I can see what people get out of good service, besides just new shoes and credit-card debt. You tell a dumpy guy with a thing for latex that he looks great in that $500 catsuit and you mean it, because he's so happy wearing it that just for that moment, he's Jon Hamm. You know you've made his day, along with a little bit of commission. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But what I realized last Sunday is how much more fun it is when you can just give the stuff away. Especially when the goods in question are beautiful organic fruits and vegetables, things everyone needs: yellow tomatoes and Japanese eggplants, kale and collards, curvy neon-bright summer squash, sticky green figs and late-season peaches. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Set up every Sunday from 1-3pm at the Parque Niños Unidos at 23rd and Treat Streets in the Mission, the \u003ca href=\"http://www.freefarmstand.org\">Free Farm Stand\u003c/a> is a joyful place. Anyone can come, and all different people do: determined grandmothers and families pushing strollers, clusters of groovy, effusively grateful British girls in tiny halter tops and oversized sunglasses, eco-hipster Mission couples in vintage dresses and ironic t-shirts, gray hair and glasses meeting bedhead and glasses. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 2 o'clock, a steady stream of people has been flowing past the table for an hour. Jeremy, a frequent volunteer, starts tootling away on a wooden flute. Inspired by the giveaway, a man named Steve has set up a agua fresca stand nearby, quenching the sunny Sunday afternoon thirsts with free glasses of melony coolness. There's a separate table stacked with loaves of bread donated by Acme Bread, another full of free thumb-sized lettuce plants for home gardeners.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Only one guy grumbles about the line not moving fast enough for his taste. No one can take him seriously, though; it's a sunny Sunday in the park and the tomatoes are free. If you can't chill out here, you're \u003cem>way \u003c/em>too tense, man. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It's set up like any farmers' market stand: a white tent overhead for shade, colorful tablecloths stacked with bowls and baskets overflowing with vegetables, herbs, and fruit. Volunteers pull out more tomatoes, more artichokes from boxes stacked beneath the tables, answer questions and offer recipes. There are plastic and paper bags on hand, but never enough; smart shoppers bring not only their own totes but their own recycled plastic bags for separating out the basil from the peppers, or the bean sprouts from the squashy figs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One table is stocked with farmers' market giveaways, donated produce left over at the end of the day from Ferry Plaza and other top-notch Saturday markets. I recognize bundles of herbs from Marin Roots Farm, fat red tomatoes from Phil Foster's 200-acre organic ranch in Hollister, perfect-looking Brussels sprouts and box after box of red Russian kale and yellow-flowering Chinese broccoli. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another table is the super-local table, filled with urban produce grown or gleaned all around the city, shared from backyards, parks, and community gardens. Regulars show up with baggies of lemon verbena, boxes of apples, bags of zucchini and butternut squash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how the Free Farm Stand started, when Tree, a community gardener and longtime social-justice activist who works at the St Martin de Porres soup kitchen, decided that his gardens' extra communal produce shouldn't go to waste. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal was to make locally grown, organic produce available to all, especially those with low incomes or limited budgets, creating garden-to-table food security right on the street. With this in mind, Tree set up a card table inside the Treat Commons garden at 23rd and Treat Sts in April of last year, offering a little bit of whatever was growing around the Mission and Potrero Hill. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Slowly, word of mouth (and \u003ca href=\"http://www.freefarmstand.org/\">blog\u003c/a>) spread about this sweet neighborhood thing happening on Sunday afternoons. Other gardeners started sharing their bounty. Tree formed connections with growers selling at local farmers markets and began picking up their extras after the markets ended. The farmstand moved out in front of the garden, into the park, and turned into two tables, then three, with a line that could stretch out of the park and down the block when the harvest was in full swing and there were sweet treats like peaches and figs on offer. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But the crowds don't come just for the free lettuce, or even the free tomatoes. Everyone has a question: \u003c/p>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What are these?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Baby artichokes--clip off the pointy leaf tips and steam or boil them whole.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this salad mix?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No, it's braising mix, a little too tough for eating raw, better for sauteing. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Is this cilantro?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>No, smell it, it's parsley; cilantro's over there.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>What is this?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>This is red mustard, very good for you, strong-tasting and good sauteed, stir-fried or put in soup.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cblockquote>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Can I eat the leaves?\u003c/strong> \u003cem>Yes, beet greens are delicious, cook them like spinach. You can cook radish greens too, if they're green and not yellowed or wilted. And this is curly kale, this is lacinato kale, what the Italians call cavalo nero and what American supermarkets call dino kale, because it's so bumpy and puckered, see, like dinosaur skin, and these are collards, this is chard. They're all in the brassica family along with cauliflower and broccoli, what used to be called the crucifers because of their cross-shaped stems\u003c/em>. \u003c/p>\u003c/blockquote>\n\u003cp>OK, so maybe I get a little carried away giving out information. But I'm not the only one. Gloria, who works at a detox center in the city, is sharing her recipe for roasted kale (rub with olive oil, salt and pepper, bake at 375F for 20 minutes, better than potato chips, leave them in the turned-off oven under the pilot light for a day if you want them really crispy). Lisa's got a new favorite salad, radishes dressed with mustard, olive oil, fresh ginger, a little sucanat, garlic, salt and pepper, orange juice and chopped parsley. People are chatting with tote bags full of leeks and beets over their arms, eating burritos on the grass, talking compost and chayote squash in the garden while their kids splash the strawberries with a hose. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>That it's all free seems to bring out the best in the crowd. No one grabs, no one hoards. Take what you can use or share, we say from behind the tables, and people carefully separate out a few sprigs of cilantro if that's all they want, pour half a box of cherry tomatoes into their bags and replace the rest. The feeling is one of abundance shared, not charity bestowed. Everyone takes home a slightly different mix, an urban stone soup cooked up by a community of growers from the Bay Area and beyond. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>By 3 o'clock, the boxes are flattened and Christina, a regular volunteer, is sweeping up crumpled leaves and squashed tomatoes with a broom. The day's bounty has been reduced to some mixed greens and a few bundles of thyme and oregano. The baskets are stacked, the tent pulled down. We share chunks of homemade apple cake baked by Clara, another volunteer who gardens nearby. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I pick up my own box of veggies, thank Tree and head home over the hill, slurping a cold watermelon agua fresca from La Taqueria on the way. I've promised a friend in Oakland that I'll hang out with her two young boys today. The figs and tomatoes will come with me, I decide. 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I recognize bundles of herbs from Marin Roots Farm, fat red tomatoes from Phil Foster's 200-acre organic ranch in Hollister, perfect-looking Brussels sprouts and box after box of red Russian kale and yellow-flowering Chinese broccoli. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Another table is the super-local table, filled with urban produce grown or gleaned all around the city, shared from backyards, parks, and community gardens. Regulars show up with baggies of lemon verbena, boxes of apples, bags of zucchini and butternut squash. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This is how the Free Farm Stand started, when Tree, a community gardener and longtime social-justice activist who works at the St Martin de Porres soup kitchen, decided that his gardens' extra communal produce shouldn't go to waste. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The goal was to make locally grown, organic produce available to all, especially those with low incomes or limited budgets, creating garden-to-table food security right on the street. 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