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The History of the Alemany Farm is the history of a piece
of land and its tenants, and how they changed each other.
Different people worked the land at different times, and each
has a story. The pluralism of the farms history is indicated
even by all the names given to the land: St. Mary’s
Youth Farm, the SLUG Farm, the Alemany Farm. Rather than attempt
an incomplete history of the Alemany Farm, you will find here
a collection of narratives and archives recording the history
of the Alemany Farm. We continually seek new additions to
our history and archives. Please send yours to community.gardeners@gmail.com
Most Recent to Most Distant
A Farm Grows by the Freeway by Bonnie Azab Powell appeared in the fall 2007 issue of Edible San Francisco - one of our favorites!!!
A
Brief Description of Current Goings-On at the Alemany Farm
in the July 26, 2006 Best of the Bay issue of the San Francisco
Bay Guardian by Chris Carlsson
Alemany
Farm’s Volunteer Project Leader Becky Sutton gives a
description of the work on the farm in 2005
Argonne Community Garden’s Ed Dierauf offers his narrative
history of Alemany Farm from 1994-2005
San
Francisco Chronicle article regarding the closing of San Francisco
League of Urban Gardeners (SLUG) and thus, the programs at
St. Mary’s Urban Youth Farm, July 24, 2003
SLUG
re-opens and Welfare to Work program at Alemany Farm discussed
in San Francisco Chronicle article, September 27, 2003
SLUG
barred from doing business with the city of San Francisco
after mayoral election fraud was uncovered by the San Francisco
Chronicle, September, 2004, leading to the abandoning of Alemany
Farm
A
Human Interest piece in the San Francisco Examiner about where
20-somethings hang-out in the Bay Area in 1999, including
volunteering at the Alemany Farm
At
the California Exotic Pest Plant Council 1997 Symposium Proceedings,
Carl M. Grimm discusses in detail the Alemany Farm
An
article in Landscape Architecture by J. William Thompson about
the Alemany Farm in 1996
Articles
about the Alemany Farm from SLUG newsletters Update
and Trowel archived by Ed Dierauf and Becky Sutton:
* Addressing Food
Security Needs using Community Supported Agriculture at the
Alemany Farm in 2001
* Youth Outdoor
Education at the Alemany Farm in 2001
* Youth internships
in 2000 at the Alemany Farm
* Youth Program gxraduation
at the Alemany Farm in Fall 2000
* Youth participating
in programs at Alemany Farm reflect on their experiences in
Winter 1999
* Review of the Youth
program at Alemany Farm, including youth-to-youth field trips
and poetry by a participant about the internship program
* Review of the Youth
program at Alemany Farm in Fall 1998 including harvest statistics
* A parent’s
perspective on her son’s experience at the Alemany Farm
* Summer 1997 discussion
of the Alemany Farm’s programs and the construction
of the windmil
* Discussion
of youth, economic development, and the Alemany Farm in 1996
* Landscaping changes
at the Alemany Farm in 1996
* Community access
and crop harvest in 1996
* Native wildlife
habitat restoration at the Alemany Farm in 1996
* Community development
and conflict resolution at the Alemany Farm in 1995
* The birth of Alemany
Farm in 1995: Teens Turn Vacant Land into Urban Farm
* The first hints
of the Alemany Farm in 1994 in the form of a partnership between
SLUG, City College, and the San Francisco Housing Authority
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