Demonstration Gardens Portfolio
The Green Mosaic
Initiated: 2013
Location: Tenderloin and SoMa districts of San Francisco, Hays Creek Watershed
Land Acknowledgement: We recognize that the work of the Green Mosaic is taking place on the Indigenous ancestral homeland of the Ramaytush Ohlone. We offer this work in affirmation of the stewardship of the ARO and aspire and commit to align ourselves with their principles of reciprocity and care for the Land. We offer our work with respect to the ancestors,elders and living relatives of the Ramaytush Ohlone.
Partners: Association of the Ramaytush Ohlone, Code Tenderloin, Veterans Alley, Faithful Fools, Hyde Street Studios, SEIU Local 87, Independent Musicians Alliance, Jazz in the Neighborhood, Tenderloin Peoples Congress, Friends of Turk & Hyde Sts, Luggage Store Gallery, TurkxTaylor Initiative, Filipino Community Development Corporation, Friends of Boedekker Park, Golden Gate Greenway, Glide Memorial Church.
Description: The Green Mosaic, originally "the Garden District" (2010) grew dually out of Demonstration Gardens' commitment to and observations of the Central YMCA community as it became displaced by development in the Tenderloin. (The building still stands at 220 Golden Gate, converted into a housing project). In responding to life-seeking impulses of our neighborhood in all its diversity we learned that the most important resource in caring for our commons is human and one size doesnt fit all
A diverse ecology builds a stronger ecosystem. What is built out of corrption can be composted and regenerated. We support the impulses of the Tenderloin Peoples Congress, Neighborhood Action Plan, which seeks to build capacity for design, study, planning lead by residents, for us, by us,the people already here to have the access to Nature and quality of life that all people deserve.
Like beads connected by a common thread, the goal of the Green Mosaic, is to connects many diverse places and the people who support them with common resources for greater resilience.
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