Urban Farming vs. Urban Nature Discussion | SF

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Shaping San Francisco | City History Lectures

Shaping San Francisco is a series of free lectures, which aim to excavate the city’s lost history. It’s a place to meet and talk unmediated by corporations, official spokespeople, religion, political parties, or dogma.

Shaping San Francisco
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Eric Quezada Center for Culture & Politics | 518 Valencia St, SF
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Wednesday, April 9, 2014
Urban Farming & Urban Nature | Shaping San Francisco | City History Lectures

Urban Farming and Urban Nature: Are We Competing or Cooperating? Nature in the City’s Amber Hasselbring, Jay Rosenberg (of the former Hayes Valley Farm, now with 49 Farms), Hannah Shulman (SF’s Urban Agriculture Program coordinator), Severine von Tscharner Fleming (Greenhorns), and Nik Bertulis (SF Art Institute) engage in a lively discussion.

In a recent Earth Island Journal interview, Michael Pollan notes a question underlying his work, “How do you think through this relationship in the messy places where nature and culture have to engage with one another?” As urban dwellers, how do we decide what to do with our open spaces, our sidewalks, our schoolyards, our vacant lots? Do we use them to grow food, tend natives, allow wild spaces to exist? These choices require different skill bases (growing soil vs. tending natives, as an example) and are also mutually supportive. With most available lots being gobbled up by housing developers, and the dismantling of Hayes Valley Farm and the Free Farm, where are we with urban ag efforts, and relative to our butterfly and insect population?

Co-sponsored by Nature in the City.

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