Crossroads Community (The Farm)
A life-scale environmental and social artwork
Initiator(s)
Bonnie Ora Sherk
Description
Located on 7 acres adjacent to the intersection of several freeway overpasses in San Francisco, The Farm was the home of over 70 domestic animals, gardens, a theatre, a state preschool, an art gallery, a communal kitchen, and a punk rock club. Neighborhood residents, as well as the art community, were invited to participate in The Farm’s interdisciplinary, environmentally oriented activities.
Goals
As a life-scale environmental and social artwork, it brought many people from different disciplines and cultures together with each other and other species—plants and animals. The project involved extensive land transformation including the integration of disparate land parcels—all adjacent to and incorporating a major freeway interchange into a new city culture-ecology park.
Beneficial outcomes
The Farm transitioned into a new city park with community gardens.
Location
United States
Users
Bonnie Ora Sherk, neighborhood residents and art community.
Maintained by
The Trust For Public Land
Duration
1974 - 1987
Category
Scientific
Pedagogical
Politics
Urban Development
Economy
Environment
Social
