Little City Gardens – cherry tomato-sized urban farm in San Francisco

“We are a partnership of two women who love to garden and want to be immersed in the dirt of our food systems.”

By Andrew Simmons
SF Weekly
Jan. 13, 2010

Brooke Budner and Caitlyn Galloway are the guerrilla green thumbs behind Little City Gardens, a cherry tomato-sized urban farm in the Mission. Simultaneously a small salad mix business, a hub of food/community positivity, and what the farmers themselves call “a working model of food production in [the city],” Little City Gardens hooks up Bar Tartine and several local caterers with greens (delivered, quite awesomely, on foot and by bike), offers tours, conducts workshops, and generally keeps it as real as water, soil, sun, and fat, writhing earthworms.

Budner and Galloway are fixing to move their operation to more spacious digs in a few months. In the meantime, get to Bar Tartine (561 Valencia at 16th St.) and try all 25 of the herbs and lettuces Little City grows, in one well-dressed heap. Once spring rolls around, you’ll be able to buy into their CSA once more.

For now, as winter rains run rivulets through our gray city, hop online and check out the Little City Gardens blog. Monday’s entry (courtesy of Budner) on an idealistic vision of the state of farming and food in 2050 distills the urban farmers’ mission much better than our paraphrasing.

See complete article here.

See Little City Gardens website here.