San Francisco Public Works Annual Report - Fiscal Year 2017-18 | Page 76

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In 2016, we joined our community partners to
break ground on Sisterhood Gardens, hoping
when we turned those shovels of dirt that it
would one day blossom into a wonderful urban
oasis with colorful flowers, succulent greens,
broccoli, bees and butterflies.
That dreamed-of cornucopia of beauty has
blossomed. It was on full display at the official
dedication ceremony for the community garden
on April 21, hosted by the Chinese Progressive
Association and the Merced Extension Triangle
Neighborhood Association. Sisterhood Gardens,
located at Brotherhood Way and Arch Street,
turned a barren patch of land adjacent to a busy
roadway into a community garden.
Our landscape architects came up with the
design, and our crews constructed a concrete
pathway bordered by several ADA-accessible
planter boxes and a stairway connecting
Brotherhood Way to Ramsell Street.
Community members who helped build the
boxes and planted them can be seen most every
day tending to their gardens – and, at just the
right time, harvesting the bounty.