Growing Cities

DOCUMENTARY Growing Cities: Urban Farming in America/"America"

via the Institute of Urban Homesteading (urban homesteading: sounds expensive and totally out of reach, especially in the Bay Area - what's the secret?)

Tuesday, April 8th, doors open at 6PM
4274 24th Street, Oakland at the New Parkway Theater, with couches
Tickets $8: here

I love this kind of stuff, but honestly, how can this kind of culture persist in the Bay Area where land is exceedingly expensive? In places like West Oakland for example, a place that researchers prescribe to be in all manners deficient, people who propose improvements need to deal with the reality that West Oakland is one Bart stop away from the Financial District of San Francisco, where condos are going for a million dollars a piece. It's like heating an oiled pan and pretending like there's no egg to fry.