Rooftop gardens come to San Francisco
Graze the Roof, a rooftop garden at Glide
Deep in the heart of winter, a small garden continues to flourish, producing winter crops such as kale, turnips, radishes, carrots and leafy greens. During the summer, this plot of land high above San Francisco's Tenderloin neighborhood, seven stories closer to the sun, was a lush edible rooftop landscape. Sunflowers and neatly arranged boxes of kale and Chinese cabbage dotted the roof. Beans, cucumbers and squash reached up trellises against the water tower, and kiwi vines straddled the barbed-wire fence.
Graze the Roof, a fledgling garden project on top of the Glide Memorial Church's offices, was created by residents in a neighborhood known more for urban blight than fresh produce and green space. It's a partnership between Glide and Oakland nonprofit Bay Localize, which promotes edible rooftops and urban self-reliance. Such gardens are seen as an important, and largely untapped, opportunity to increase local food production. In addition to providing veggies for participants, the garden demonstrates to apartment dwellers that having a flat roof is all you need to grow good food.
All's I know is: Today at work, seemingly mild-mannered, educated and moderate young people all agreed that they can't figure out why nobody's taken a shot at this guy, yet.
That's pretty heavy.
Pictured: The accused.
