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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>Occupy has also been trying to move urban
ag forward with garden committees in various groups and a larger scale project
at the UC plot in Albany. Latest developments on the latter here:<br>
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<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a
href="http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20582724/police-blocking-vehicle-access-at-occupy-farm-albany">http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_20582724/police-blocking-vehicle-access-at-occupy-farm-albany</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'>There are also a few groups focussing on harvesting
existing unused fruit trees: <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><a href="http://www.villageharvest.org/">http://www.villageharvest.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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social-bounces@lists.deeptrouble.com
[mailto:social-bounces@lists.deeptrouble.com] <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>On
Behalf Of </span></b>Catherine Rauschuber<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent:</span></b> Wednesday, May 09, 2012
11:02 AM<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> Kimberly Conley<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> Tara Tranguch;
Social@lists.deeptrouble.com<br>
<b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> Re: SOCIAL: urban
agriculture contacts?</span></font><o:p></o:p></p>
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face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:12.0pt'>I would be happy to
introduce her to the person at SPUR (Eli Zigas) and the folks at SFUAA, among
many others. I have been working on urgan agriculture in SF through past
jobs at Rec and Park, and now in Sup David Chiu's office, where we are planning
a lot of urban ag policy goodness. =) <br>
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-Cat<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 1:00 AM, Kimberly Conley <<a
href="mailto:khconley@gmail.com" target="_blank">khconley@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:
12.0pt'>One of my nearest and dearest friends, Tara Tranguch (copied here), is
working on a farm in Connecticut and would like to know more about the urban
agriculture scene here in SF (see article below). Does anyone know folks at
SPUR or CUESA she could talk with? Or other organizations she should know
about? Any resources and connections you can provide are appreciated! <o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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target="_blank" title="Permanent Link to Expanding Urban Ag in San Francisco"><font
color="#3a2400"><span style='color:#3A2400'>Expanding Urban Ag in San Francisco</span></font></a><o:p></o:p></span></font></b></h3>
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<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Mary Davis started feeling the squeeze of city life
about a year ago. She had grown up gardening and spent a stint working on an
organic farm while attending grad school in Missouri. Now an architect living
in San Francisco’s Mission District, she longed to reconnect with her
gardening roots, but her small apartment was lacking in the dirt department.
“There was no garden, no outdoors,” she says. “I really
wanted a place with some soil.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>She started looking around her neighborhood and
fell in love with the historic <a
href="http://e2ma.net/go/11024451151/208885534/232943345/34641/goto:http:/missionlocal.org/2010/04/from-historic-guerilla-garden-to-ward-of-the-city/"
target="_blank"><font color="#00b7b7"><span style='color:#00B7B7;text-decoration:
none'>Dearborn Community Garden</span></font></a>. But when she inquired about
getting a plot, she was told there was a 22-year waiting list.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>She signed up nonetheless and continued her search,
adding her name to the Potrero Hill Community Garden’s list as well,
which had a comparatively modest seven-year wait. Since then, Davis has moved
into a house with a shared backyard garden, but she still longs for a plot of
her own.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Davis’s experience is not uncommon among
would-be gardeners in San Francisco. Most of the city’s community gardens
have waiting lists of two years or more, according to <a
href="http://e2ma.net/go/11024451151/208885534/232943346/34641/goto:http:/www.spur.org/publications/library/report/public-harvest"
target="_blank"><i><font color="#00b7b7"><span style='color:#00B7B7;font-style:
italic;text-decoration:none'>Public Harvest</span></font></i></a>, a new report
by <a
href="http://e2ma.net/go/11024451151/208885534/232943347/34641/goto:http:/www.spur.org/"
target="_blank"><font color="#00b7b7"><span style='color:#00B7B7;text-decoration:
none'>San Francisco Urban Planning + Urban Research Association (SPUR)</span></font></a>.
The most comprehensive report of its kind in recent years, it paints a sweeping
portrait of the current urban agriculture landscape and presents a bold agenda
to help San Francisco meet the demands of a burgeoning movement.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Since the dissolution of the <a
href="http://e2ma.net/go/11024451151/208885534/232943348/34641/goto:http:/foundsf.org/index.php?title=San_Francisco%27s_Community_Gardens"
target="_blank"><font color="#00b7b7"><span style='color:#00B7B7;text-decoration:
none'>San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG)</span></font></a> in
2004, there have been no centralized city-funded efforts to maintain or expand
urban agriculture. Residents hoping to start new projects face many
bureaucratic hurdles, since public land and urban agricultural activities are
managed by multiple agencies, with little coordination. From commercial
urban farms to rooftop plots and shared gardens, more than two dozen private
and public urban agriculture projects have sprouted up in the City over the
last four years as a result of the resurgence of interest in gardening.
“We need to start looking to our public land to meet this demand,”
said SPUR program manager Eli Zigas at a recent press event at Michelangelo
Playground Community Garden in Nob Hill (pictured below).<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>While <a
href="http://e2ma.net/go/11024451151/208885534/232943349/34641/goto:http:/sfrecpark.org/CommunityGardens.aspx"
target="_blank"><font color="#00b7b7"><span style='color:#00B7B7;text-decoration:
none'>San Francisco Recreation & Parks</span></font></a> oversees 35
community gardens on public land, those gardens are generally operated by
volunteers, not staff. “The gardens are run by gardeners,” says
Andrea Jadwin, a founding and active member of <a
href="http://e2ma.net/go/11024451151/208885534/232943350/34641/goto:http:/www.sfgro.org/"
target="_blank"><font color="#00b7b7"><span style='color:#00B7B7;text-decoration:
none'>San Francisco Gardening Resource Organization (SFGRO)</span></font></a>,
which offers support and training for community gardeners throughout the city.
“That’s good and that’s bad because some gardens aren’t
very well run.” Garden managers are often inadequately prepared to deal
with issues like vandalism or garden members who neglect their plots while
waiting lists grow. “If there were an agency helping people run the
gardens better, it’d be easy to keep them going with minimal
budget,” she adds.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>According to SPUR’s findings, San
Francisco’s urban agriculture program is middling compared to other large
cities. With an annual operating budget of $800,000, or about $6,615 per site,
San Francisco spends more than New York but far less than Seattle, which
invests $11,940 per site.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Taking SPUR’s findings and recommendations to
heart, District 3 Supervisor David Chiu has proposed new legislation that would
create a strategic plan and a centralized program to streamline the management
of urban agricultural projects, either through the city or a city-funded nonprofit.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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face=Georgia><span style='font-family:Georgia'>The proposed ordinance includes
a six-month audit of city-owned building rooftops that could be used for urban
agriculture, the creation of a “one-stop shop” for individuals and
organizations looking to engage in agricultural activities, and the establishment
of garden resource centers that would provide residents with compost, seeds,
and tools. By 2014, Chiu aims to develop at least 10 new urban agricultural
projects on public land and reduce waiting lists for plot-based gardens to one
year.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Zigas emphasizes the minimal cost of such a program
for the returns it offers to the city of San Francisco, such as greening the
urban landscape and reducing stormwater runoff, which in turn reduce public
spending on landscaping and sewage treatment.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>He also notes the benefits of urban agriculture for
San Francisco residents and the food system at large, connecting city dwellers
with the miracles and challenges of growing food. “I think a many
gardeners in San Francisco have a great appreciation for a fresh tomato because
they know how hard it is to grow a tomato,” says Zigas. “There are
a lot of people in the city who learn about food and how it’s produced
through that process.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Having been a member of White Crane Springs
Community Garden in the Sunset for nine years, Jadwin has witnessed the
benefits that such spaces offer by bringing neighbors together.<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>“People garden for the same reasons they go
to the farmers market,” she observes. “You see your friends and
neighbors. You talk about the weather and what’s in season. It not only
allows people to have a broader connection to food, but it also builds
community.”<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<p style='line-height:16.5pt'><font size=3 face=Georgia><span style='font-size:
12.0pt;font-family:Georgia'>Originally published in <a
href="http://civileats.com/2012/05/04/expanding-urban-ag-in-san-francisco/cuesa.org"
target="_blank"><font color="#00b7b7"><span style='color:#00B7B7;text-decoration:
none'>CUESA</span></font></a>‘s newsletter<o:p></o:p></span></font></p>
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<span class=hoenzb>Kimberly Conley</span><br>
<span class=hoenzb>@kimberlyland</span><br>
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value="+14155194367">415.519.4367</a></span></span></span></font> <o:p></o:p></p>
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