IdealistNews: what's new in nonprofitshttp://www.idealistnews.com/IdealistNews: All things nonprofit - links about nonprofit organizations, grant writing, fundraising, how technology and social media can benefit nonprofits. Want to help change the world? Check us out at http://www.idealist.org/more Read our Vision here - http://idealist.org/visionhttp://thumbs.reddit.com/t5_2qlfy.png?v=676656cd70da412b7f6cfe6f8c782285IdealistNews: what's new in nonprofitshttp://www.idealistnews.com/San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardenshttp://www.idealistnews.com/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/Fri, 10 Jul 2009 12:53:19 -07002009-07-10T12:53:19.933051-07:00<table> <tr><td> <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/"><img src="http://thumbs.reddit.com/t3_903rb.png" alt="San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardens" title="San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardens" /></a> </td><td> submitted by <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/user/BlueOrange"> BlueOrange </a> <br/> <a href="http://www.infrastructurist.com/2009/07/10/sf-mayor-wants-to-turn-highway-medians-into-organic-gardens/">[link]</a> <a href="http://www.idealistnews.com/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/">[5 comments]</a> </td></tr></table>San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardens/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azdfolunchladydoris2 on San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardens/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azdfo2009-07-10T13:53:42.823744-07:00-0700nothing like vehicle exhaust 24/7, oil and gas drippings, and hobo urine to make an organic garden./comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azjguwoodeye on San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardens/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azjgu2009-07-10T17:19:12.799455-07:00-0700That was my immediate thought when reading this... the idea is nice, but there will be nothing &quot;organic&quot; about any of these plantings when they are receiving a constant rain of highway byproducts./comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azvf3lucidguppy on San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardens/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azvf32009-07-11T04:54:44.587767-07:00-0700I totally agree. SF is doing fine putting train tracks on highway medians./comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azfccmadelinecn on San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardens/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azfcc2009-07-10T14:47:35.828262-07:00-0700oh booo/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azq1kbobsmo on San Francisco Mayor wants to turn highway medians into organic gardens/comments/903rb/san_francisco_mayor_wants_to_turn_highway_medians/c0azq1k2009-07-10T22:19:28.421123-07:00-0700Screw the medians. Get the gardens into the public parks. Huge farms in Golden Gate Park, Doloras Park, small farms in planter boxes everywhere. Get the city working with the professional gardeners at the already existing urban farm coops. Teamed up with the already thriving &quot;friends of parks&quot; system this shouldn't be a big deal to pull off.