WOW Farm Flowers: West Oakland Blooms Again

摘要

Driving down Wood Street on the outskirts of West Oakland, empty expanses reveal views of the 880 Freeway swooping overhead toward the Bay Bridge. The sky is open and in the distance fingers of fog reach for the Berkeley Hills and the University of California, Berkeley, Campanile. Abandoned railroad switches lace streets leading to Oakland's historic 16th Street Station, which has been vacant since the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. Where there used to be a large asphalt and gravel parking lot, today rows of amaranth, dahlias, sunflowers, zinnias, and cosmos grow in front of the historic Beaux-Arts building. Welcome to West Oakland Woods (WOW) Farm Flowers.