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Unused school property slated to be edible garden
By Julia Scott, STAFF WRITER
Article Last Updated: 01/21/2008 02:34:05 AM PST
PACIFICA — An unused soccer field behind Linda Mar Elementary School
has become a field of dreams for members of Pacifica's Livability
Project as their hopes for a community garden come to life.
In a unanimous vote last Wednesday, the Pacifica School District's
Board of Directors committed the patchy field behind the school to a
new life as lush, edible garden,
complete with classes for local
schoolchildren.
Although organic community gardens exist elsewhere in the Bay Area,
organizers say Pacifica Gardens will stand alone as much for its
large variety of fruits and vegetable crops as its ambitions to
combine as many uses as possible for people from all corners of the
community.
Half outdoor classroom, half grocery basket, the three-quarter- acre
garden will attempt to reach Pacificans with the message that the
future of farming is intensely local and organic, requiring a group
effort to thrive.
On Sunday morning, three giddy women stood over a shovel at the
center of the future garden. Looking around, their
imaginations saw a
grove of fruit trees, more than 40 beds of herbs and vegetables, rows
of flowers and piles of compost.
The women — project managers Melissa Moss, Loretta O'Brien and
Melanie Heisler — dug a few shovelfuls of soil to be tested for pH
levels and fertility, crucial to see how much soil and fertilizer
would be needed before the first planting of fruit trees in late
February.
"There's not one of us who can't actually see it. A little apple tree
here, some comfrey here," said O'Brien happily, swinging her shovel
around and making the other women laugh...
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