If you’ve never been to San Francisco’s Mission district, it’s a dense neighborhood of mid-rise buildings, many of them rental apartments, with street-level commercial spaces on main streets. It’s pretty impoverished for public green space or greenery of any kind, with the exception of a couple large parks (most notably Dolores Park) and a few community gardens. At a glance, it’s the kind of place that has “food desert” written all over it. But on a recent stay in the Mission (visiting friends for New Year’s), I was inspired by a excellent example of a local/organic foodshed reaching far into a hyper-urban setting.
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