San Francisco’s Slow Food Nation Victory Garden in Civic Center is finished for 2008.
So, say good-bye to the windmill and the veggies and the exhortation “ALL OUT FOOD PRODUCTION!”
Will the VG be back next year?
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Well look what just sprouted up betwixt City Hall and our famous Victory Garden in the Civic Center - it’s a “Holiday Tree.” Let’s travel back to Christmas Past to learn the rules:
“Public displays of religion, of course, are out. Department bosses can, however, set up “inclusive displays” such as plants, snowflakes or trees - as long as they use nonreligious and nonallergenic decorations. And definitely no stars on top of trees.“
Sort of looks naked without the star, but they’re working on it still.
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Enjoy your year-end holidays!
The Victory Garden at San Francisco’s Civic Center has a new lease on life due to today’s mayoral reprieve:
“Today Mayor Gavin Newsom announced his intention to keep the Slow Food Nation Victory Garden at Civic Center Plaza in place until November. The garden was originally scheduled to be disassembled and moved to a more permanent location on September 21, three weeks after the conclusion of Slow Food Nation.”
Now the whole idea of this garden smacked of Marie Antoinette’s L’Hameau de la Reine from the get-go and the fact it was supposed to be undone in September was met with some criticism, but having this thing around for another three months seems like a good idea.
Of course SFN was well-attended, with lots of coverage from the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, SFGate and Eater SF.
Now on with the show.
This voter registerer got cuffed by a Park Ranger right next to the Civic Center Windmill. Some rich hippies took offense and questioned the necessity of this detention. Apparently, the very same man was asked to leave SFN just the day before.
People, people, people, have you no respect for the DPT? Just one Parking Control Officer had the opportunity to issue scores of tickets to those in too much of a hurry to get to Slow Food Nation. It’s as easy as (slow) pie to park for free all day in this area.
See you next year!
Right now it’s just blowing in the wind, but pretty soon this newly-installed windmill will earn its keep at San Francisco’s Slow Food Nation ‘08.
Finally, here it is!
“Welcome Pavilions – Jensen Architects
The entryway to Slow Food Nation, the Welcome Pavilions at Fort Mason and Civic Center Plaza will be visible from near and far. Serving as a beacon and a billboard, each Welcome Center will be housed in a re-claimed shipping container painted Slow Food Nation signature orange and topped by a full size, galvanized steel windmill.”
The Victory Garden is coming along nicely and even the skeptics might be getting on board.
See you there!
Things are speeding up at Slow Food Nation ‘08 in San Francisco. After fighting the worm wars, it’s nice to sit back and spend $500 to eat some celebrity chef food under the rotunda of City Hall. It’s the Victory Garden Celebration Dinner on August 24:
District Attorney Kamala Harris, Peter Coyote, Thomas Keller and Alice Waters invite you to celebrate the Victory Garden on Civic Center Plaza. We’ll gather in the garden, share a meal prepared by Chez Panisse, and plant the seeds of victory at San Francisco City Hall.
Or just get a table for $10k and invite a few friends to have some paella, your choice.
Blue corn as high as a elephant’s eye, and it looks like it’s climbing clear up to the sky:
See you there!
“The Slow Food Nation Victory Garden, planted by a coalition of volunteers including Mayor Gavin Newsom and Alice Waters, is an edible garden on the Civic Center Plaza. Planted on the same site as the post World War II Victory Gardens 60 years ago, the Victory Garden represents the values of sustainability, community and stewardship of the land, while producing high quality food for people in need.”