Street Beets

摘要

It's a chilly December day in Oakland, California—over-cast and gray—and most folks are staying indoors. But outside a modest bungalow on the city's impoverished West Side, three young women volunteers are busy building a backyard garden for a local resident. They dump loads of dark, rich soil into a three-foot by eight-foot planter bed. Fruit and vegetable shoots sitting on the ground offer a glimpse of harvests to come—strawberries and chard, lettuce, herbs and shelling peas.