Alley FLoRa: The Tenderloin National Forest
The Tenderloin National Forest Over Time !
The Tenderloin National Forest is located in Cohen
Alley off Ellis Street in the San Francisco Tenderloin.
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 before soil building
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after soil building
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Here are some Important prehistoric events in the life of Tenderloin National Forest
Darryl Smith plants a redwood tree in the heart of an urban alleyway, imagining a wild canyon
reaching the sky through the tall city buildings.
The Luggage Store Gallery raises money and commissions Kevin Leeper
to design and install a gate
at the entrance of Cohen Alley.
SLUG (San Francisco League of Urban Gardeners) designs a landscape plan for Cohen Alley
using elevated planters running down the alley.
Darryl Smith and Stephen Clifford install sod LAWN
for the 11th Annual In the Streets Festival
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planting of the red maple tree
In 2005, a sod lawn was installed as part of the
11th Annual In the Street Festival
Wattle and Daub hut built by Julia Glanville and Darryl Smith, 2005.
Sarah Lewison and SF State class Social Aesthetics and the Urban
Laboratory began to bring dirt to the site to allow a more permanent development of flora.
planting of the Gingko tree (see below!)
TODAY in the TENDERLOIN NATIONAL FOREST !
The TNF, as a semi-public garden and experimental art space adjacent to the Luggage Store Annex
continues to be created and implemented by the visions
of people in the neighborhood, of the resident artists and horticulturists invited to work there, and especially
through the stewardship and support of the Luggage Store Gallery, directed by Darryl
Smith and Laurie Lazer.
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before soil building
