It's What Community Looks Like!

This the heading on every email I get from the Quesada Gardens Initiative…a 100% Bayview resident led initiative that is building community in the Bayview Hunters Point Neighborhood around gardens that run wild through the streets. Check out their blog at http://quesadagardensblog.blogspot.com/. A brilliant and humble man named Jeffrey Betcher is among the amazing leaders of this unique and highly effective organization.

Here is picture of Annette Smith, Co-Founder and Board Chair of the Quesada Gardens Initiative as depicted in a brand new massive mural about community spirit and the magic of the garden she and Karl Paige started.

Check out the cool video on YouTube! (click here)

Gardens and gardening are changing the world. This wisdom is as old as it gets.

The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul. Share the botanical bliss of gardeners through the ages, who have cultivated philosophies to apply to their own - and our own - lives: Show me your garden and I shall tell you what you are.
- Alfred Austin, 1835-1913