[Scpg] Unused school field becomes community garden...

[Cory Brennan]

             Look at what they are doing in San Mateo:
 
 http://www.insideba yarea.com/ sanmateocountyti mes/ci_8032745
 
 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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