18th and Rhode Island Permaculture Garden

Location: 18th St and Rhode Island St

Founded: 2008 by San Francisco Permaculture Guild

Website: http://www.permaculture-sf.org

Fun Facts: •This 5,000 ft2 private property is unfenced and open to the public. It features a demonstration permaculture food forest and has rustic furniture built from natural materials.

•Permaculture is a framework which develops a sustainable, regener-ative, and self-maintained habitat and agricultural principles.

•The site has an edible aquatic ecosystem, hosts several rare plants, and 75 fruit and nut trees suitable to San Francisco’s microclimate.

What makes this garden so unique?

“18th and Rhode Island Permaculture Garden has always been about setting an example of perennial, no-till food production; it’s about working with, rather than against nature to provide open access to healthy food, educate the community, and develop a diverse and

sustainable ecological system.”

- Except from interview with David Cody, one of the founders and managers of the site, July 2014