Slow Food Nation and Victory Gardens 2008+ are creating an edible, organic garden infront of San Francisco's City Hall July through
September, 2008.
SLOW FOOD NATION
SLOW FOOD NATION VICTORY GARDEN (Garden blog!)
PHOTOS OF THE INSTALLATION AND PLANTING (Photos by NEN)
Garden Design
The Slow Food Nation Victory Garden is a living quilt of plants and people, a garden of communities. Featuring a wide variety of heritage organic vegetables suited to the Bay Area microclimate, the garden will demonstrate the diversity of urban food production practices. Food grown in the garden will be donated to those with limited access to healthy organic produce through a partnership with local food banks and meals programs.
Project Goals
• Create the most beautiful, well-maintained, edible garden in San Francisco
• Demonstrate the potential of a truly local agriculture practice
• Bring together and promote Bay Area urban gardening organizations
• Produce high quality food for those in need
• Celebrate the Slow Food Nation event from August 29 – September 1, 2008
• Celebrate the creation of the San Francisco Food Policy Framework
Project Timeline
July 1: Groundbreaking
July 1- 11: Garden Installation
July 12: Community Planting Day
July 12 – Aug 29: Garden Operation, stay tuned for workshop schedule!
Aug 29 – September 1: Slow Food Nation Event, 1st Harvest
September 21: Community Harvest Day, Food Donated to those in need
Join Us!
The Slow Food Nation Victory Garden is being sponsored by Slow Food Nation and designed by the Garden for the Environment’s Victory Garden 08+ Program and CMG Landscape Architecture. Seeds and starts have been donated by Seeds of Change and numerous individuals from around the country. City Slicker Farms and Ploughshares Nursery are managing seed propagation and providing garden advice, and the Coevolution Institute is providing pollinator attractor plants. Thus far we’ve reached out to the Hayes
Valley Neighborhood Parks Program, the Larkin Street Youth Program and others to get a wide variety of community members involved in the garden. Interested in participating? Contact us!
We Need Your Support!
We are seeking donations of time, energy, funding, and materials. You can help by providing seeds or seed propagation space, helping to transplant or direct seed in the garden, cultivating and harvesting vegetables, or all of the above. We also need volunteers to help build, maintain, and then remove the garden. We are seeking financial support and in-kind material donations. All donations are tax deductible.
| For more information please contact: |
John Bela
Slow Food Nation Victory Garden Coordinator
john@sfvictorygardens.org, (415) 350-8257
Volunteer at the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden
victorygarden@slowfoodnation.org
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