Sunday April 22, 2007
3-7pm
Bayview Hunters Point Healing Arts Center
5190 Third Street (at Thomas)

Amy Franceschini, Arcangelo Wessells, and Bayview Hunters Point Healing Arts Center in conjunction with the CCA's World's Fair Project transitioned an underutilized plot into a food producing space.

Installation:
Two raised beds with benches.

Planted: Pumpkins, squash, lettuce, collard greens, mustard greens, parsley and chives.

Before: Unused plot overgrown with remnanants of previous landscaping.		We spotted an olive tree and transplanted it to the front of garden.
Before: View from above terrace.		After: Top view of cleared space, planter boxes, benches and gravel from an abandoned pile in parking lot.
Dirt clots can be so beautiful!		Ingenious use of abandoned mountain of gravel sitting in the parking lot as an eyesore for months! Now a beautiful walkway to raised beds, benches and a weed detourent.
More dirt clots. .		Director of Bayview Hunters Point Healing Arts Center introducing their program and members.
Daylighted rosemary and a special yellow rosemary.		Artist, Amanda Eicher assisting a neighbor in planting.
Blair Randall, Director of the Garden for the Environment assisting neighbor in transplanting.		Neighbor carefully transplanting chives.
Amy Franceschini introducing the Good Gardening oath.		Oath of good gardening being read aloud in front of spectators, neighbors and friends.
Lead gardener, Arcangelo Wessells installing the raised bed benches.		Raised bed bench installed with drip system and transplants.