Hayes Valley Farm
San Francisco, United States · Operator: Hayes Valley Farm (community collective)
Overview
A temporary-use urban farm that turned freeway ruins into a food forest.
Citizen participation
Over 20,000 volunteers took part; run as an urban agriculture education and research site.
Operating model
Interim free use of demolished-freeway parcels until development arrived.
Impact
Conceived as interim use from the start; it closed on 31 May 2013 to make way for a condo development. Lesson: even a thriving 'interim use' farm must vacate as agreed.
Crops
- vegetables
- cover crops
Scale
8,903 m² — 約2.2エーカーの旧高速道路跡地。2013年5月31日閉鎖 (closed May 2013)
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