{"id":6660,"date":"2016-03-23T21:53:33","date_gmt":"2016-03-24T04:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/?p=6660"},"modified":"2016-07-20T23:18:06","modified_gmt":"2016-07-21T06:18:06","slug":"beautifying-streets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/bernal-heights-living-library-nature-walk\/beautifying-streets","title":{"rendered":"Students Transform Street and Their School Adding To Living Library Nature Walk"},"content":{"rendered":"

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During the month of February, 2016, people from different parts of California came together to transform a street and add to the Living Library Nature Walk<\/strong><\/em> on Bernal Heights in San Francisco. \u00a0This ecological beautification project involved creating 12 new sidewalk\u00a0garden beds on formerly sterile concrete sidewalks, and planting them with California Native Trees and Understory plants in front of Junipero Serra Elementary School on Holly Park Circle across from Holly Park.<\/p>\n

Bonnie Ora Sherk, Founder & Director of<\/strong><\/em> Life Frames, Inc.<\/strong><\/em> created the design for the planting,\u00a0and then connected with the various San Francisco Departments that helped make it all possible. \u00a0 The\u00a0California Strategic Growth Council<\/strong><\/em> generously provided the funding for the project as part of their grant for the full Living Library<\/strong><\/em> Nature Walk<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0<\/strong>throughout the neighborhood that is linking multiple schools, parks, public housing, streets, and other open spaces leading to the currently hidden Islais Creek<\/strong><\/em> at the south side of St. Mary’s Park<\/strong><\/em>. *<\/p>\n

\"Mar.<\/p>\n

In December, 2015, the SF Department of Public Works,<\/strong><\/em> led by Urban Forester, Chris Buck,<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0 removed the concrete in order to create the new 12 garden beds – and <\/span>enlarge some of the existing tree basins.\u00a0 SF Unified School District Landscape Department<\/strong><\/em> led by Rick Maia<\/strong><\/em> delivered\u00a0<\/span>compost from Recology<\/strong><\/em> in order<\/span> to improve the soil quality in the new garden beds. \u00a0Now it was time to get planting.\u00a0 93 Students<\/strong><\/em> from Junipero Serra Elementary School<\/strong> <\/em>led by A Living Library Teacher, Kristin DeRose<\/strong> <\/em>took part in the planting.\u00a0 It was the students excitement and enthusiasm to help beautify their school that really moved<\/span> the project forward. \u00a0Once planting was complete, the\u00a0<\/span>SFUSD Landscape Department<\/em> donated and delivered a huge pile of\u00a0wood chips, which the\u00a0students\u00a0used to mulch the new garden beds. \u00a0 There were so many extra\u00a0wood chips that the students mulched all of the trees on the block ! \u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Through this whole, hands-on learning and transformation project,\u00a0students\u00a0discussed the importance of planting natives to improve air quality, increase\u00a0water percolation, restore the natural Watershed, and re-attract native wildlife species to the area. They also learned about diverse native California\u00a0plant species,\u00a0drought tolerant plants, and how this street planting will help improve the quality of life in this neighborhood.\u00a0 The children were thrilled to be so empowered by their actions !
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Students <\/span>planted 5 trees, 18 native shrubs and 75 native Understory\u00a0plants.\u00a0 We plan to keep continue planting on the side street bordering the school as part of the Nature Walk.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

*\u00a0 This Bernal Heights Living Library & Think Park<\/strong><\/em> is a prototype for the whole Islais Creek Watershed,<\/strong><\/em> the largest in San Francisco that interconnects eleven communities:\u00a0 Bernal Heights, Portola, Crocker-Amazon, Excelsior, OMI, Sunnyside, Glen Park, Noe Valley, Mission, Potrero Hill, Bayview.\u00a0 It is envisioned that this Nature Walk<\/em> will be expanded to connect these communities by developing a new, expressive, resilient landscape interconnecting them where they have been disconnected by freeways and other streets.\u00a0 We are also proposing that the Chavez\/101 Freeway Interchange<\/strong> <\/em>and the Alemany\/101 Freeway Interchange<\/strong><\/em> become the Northern & Southern Gateways to the Islais Creek Watershed.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

\"Mar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During the month of February, 2016, people from different parts of California came together to transform a street and add to the Living Library Nature Walk on Bernal Heights in San Francisco. \u00a0This ecological beautification project involved creating 12 new sidewalk\u00a0garden beds on formerly sterile concrete sidewalks, and planting them with California Native Trees and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"slim_seo":{"title":"Students Transform Street and Their School Adding To Living Library Nature Walk - A Living Library - Archive Site","description":"During the month of February, 2016, people from different parts of California came together to transform a street and add to the Living Library Nature Walk on B"},"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,11,6,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-a-l-l-pedagogy","category-bernal-heights-living-library-think-park","category-bernal-heights-living-library-nature-walk","category-islais-creek-watershed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6660"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6886,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6660\/revisions\/6886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alivinglibrary.org\/archive-site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}