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The OMI/Excelsior Living Library & Think
Park was
dramatically enhanced last year on
December 2, when hundreds of students
from the three schools joined Friends
of the Urban Forest volunteers and the
Urban Tree foundation to plant almost
200 native trees and other vegetation
on two
of the streets bordering the site. Additionally,
weedy, unused
ground between Denman and
San Miguel has become a bright, organic
vegetable,
flower, and herb garden, orchard
and classroom. Soon student’s artwork will
be displayed along the fences, visually
linking the schools. The students
also designed
and built a sculptural water feature. Polychromed
labels
for the recently-planted trees will soon
display their Latin names, common
names,
plant culture and function.
James Denman Middle School, Balboa
High School and San Miguel Child Devel-
opment Center sit on nine contiguous
acres
in San Francisco’s Excelsior District, near
Oceanview, Merced and
Ingleside. The area
used to be a fertile river valley where the
Muwekma
Ohlone Native Americans once
lived and historic farms once thrived. It is
now home to diverse cultures of people,
but the area looks very bleak and
barren. The
Living Library has begun an urban transformation
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