School gardens have something for everybody

Call it zeitgeist, or a social leveler: Long before the unpleasantness on Wall Street, we heard talk about "food security" from school-garden mavens in places as disparate as Mill Valley and Richmond's Iron Triangle. Visiting two this month, we saw live examples of another leveler - pocket gophers.

Click here to read the entire article by  Joe Eaton and Ron Sulliva in the San Francisco Chronicle, Wednesday, October 22, 2008