Urban farm vs. housing in San Francisco? Tug over key site ends after developer rejects a deal with nonprofit
By J.K. Dineen. 10/26/2022. The SF Chronicle relates the refusal of the property owner to sell the property to the community under the terms of the negotiated purchase option agreement.
THE GREENHOUSE PROJECT’S BID TO PUT DOWN ROOTS
By Isabel Ling. 4/21/2022. The Greenhouse Project is featured in an online magazine exploring the intersections of farm systems and urban agriculture.
Portola Garden District Returns To Its Roots
By Meka Boyle. 3/21/2022. The Knee Deep Times, a national climate change focused publication, focuses on the various greening efforts in the Portola.
Abandoned GREENHOUSES In San Francisco's GARDEN DISTRICT
Hosted by Dylan Sesco & Cole Scott. 7/1/2021. The Somethin' Or Other Tour [SOOT.tv] web series focuses on the University Mound Nursery in San Francisco’s Garden District. Take a tour of the greenhouses that were built nearly a century ago in the Portola.
S.F’s historical Portola greenhouses could be saved. But there’s a catch.
By J.K. Dineen. 3/30/2021. The SF Chronicle covers the recent agreement between Friends of 770 Woolsey and L37, the development company that currently owns the parcel.
Urban Agriculture or More Housing?
By Nuala Sawyer. 8/2/2017. SF Weekly covers the Garden District, where one block of greenhouses is all that remains of Portola's garden industry, and its future is uncertain.
Planning Puzzle in the Portola: green space, housing plans clash.
By J.K. Dineen. 8/1/2017. The SF Chronicle covers recent updates in the neighborhood's efforts to preserve agricultural use of the historic nursery block in light of the recent sale of the property to real estate developer Group i.
SF recommits to urban agriculture during housing crisis
By Joshua Sabatini. 4/26/2017. With the closure of San Francisco's only commercial urban farm, Little City Gardens, last year, Supervisor Hillary Ronen introduced a resolution recommitting the city to agriculture.
Community Comes Together to Celebrate San Francisco's Garden District
By Alex Hobbs. 3/28/2017. Local blog the Portola Planet covers the community's celebration for SF's recognizing the Portola as the city's official Garden District, and the unveiling of the neighborhood's new Welcome to the Garden District Sign.
波特拉花園區標誌 揭牌
記者黃少華. 眾多社區人士和環保組織見證波特拉花園區手繪標誌揭牌。
By Shawn Huang. 3/13/17. World Journal covers community festivities at the Portola's Garden District Unveiling event.
Greenhouse Project wants agriculture on site marketed for housing
By J.K. Dineen. 10/9/2016. SF Chronicle front page story investigating The Greenhouse Project's goal for the 770 Woolsey site, its history and present opportunities.
San Francisco Says Grow a Farm, Reap a Tax Break
By Lauren Murrow. 5/29/2015. San Francisco Magazine covers pioneering legislature AB511, which was developed and supported by multiple TGP board members, and provides tax incentives for owners of empty lots who put their land into cultivation.
The Greenhouse Project: Bringing San Francisco’s forgotten flower farm back to life
By Maya De Paula Hanika. 12/11/2014. Local radio station KALW interviews founding Greenhouse Project board member Juan Carlos Cancino.
The Last Flower Children Guard San Francisco’s Most Secret Garden
By Lars Russell. 9/19/2010. Beat Valley Press does an in-depth expose of the history & current state of the University Mound Nursery greenhouses.