Supplemental, distributed, local agriculture -- could be one component of a protective strategy to increase local life support capacity, urban resiliency, food security, and bridge future disruptions to the food system, transportation system, water supply, and energy.

Urban Agricultural Resources:

S.F. firm harvests potential of unused land, Tara Duggan, Chronicle Staff Writer,
Monday, June 23, 2008, http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2008/06/23/MN8R118AR4.DTL

Guerrilla gardening. Visit guerrillagardening.org. Click on Community and navigate to San Francisco.

Free Farm Stand. This volunteer-run organization offers produce grown in local backyards free to the public, especially to low-income people. Sundays 1-3 p.m., Parque Niños Unidos at the corner of 23rd Street and Treat Avenue. freefarmstand.org.

MyFarm. For more information, visit www.myfarmsf.com.

People's Grocery. Nonprofit with programs to increase access to healthy food in West Oakland, including urban agriculture. peoplesgrocery.org.

Quesada Gardens Initiative. Community of Bayview residents who tend a vegetable garden on a city median. quesadagardensblog.blogspot.com.

Three Stone Hearth. A Berkeley cooperative that sells nutrient-rich prepared meals for pickup or delivery, following the principles of Weston A. Price. threestonehearth.com or e-mail info@threestonehearth.com.

Victory Gardens 2008+. A San Francisco pilot project to create more vegetable gardens in backyards, parks and rooftops: sfvictorygardens.org.

E-mail Tara Duggan at tduggan@sfchronicle.com.  This article appeared on page A - 1 of the San Francisco Chronicle