The plant-it-yourself movement in San Francisco, and the rest of the world, has never been more critical. A community garden can bring a wide range of benefits – from connecting people with each other to growing fresh food to enjoy. It’s a place to relax, a way to engage with nature, meet others and get active outdoors for GBD users. From the professional point of view, it’s a fruitful synergy of GBDs, cities stakeholders, urban planners, and local communities.

Experts from San Francisco talked about community gardens as a way to promote different types of use and occupation of public spaces, as an instrument to implement activism, as well as transform socio-spatial relationships at a local level in a way that might result in larger-scale future impacts. The presentation of The East Cut community garden project in details followed the discussion.

Panelists

Mei Ling Hui, Director, Regional Development, San Francisco Recreation & Parks Department

Tony Birdsey, Senior Director, Tishman Speyer

Benjamin Fahrer, Owner & Regenerative Farmer, Top Leaf Farms

Mike Rieger, Deputy Director, The East Cut

Moderator

Andrew Robinson, Executive Director, The East Cut

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