http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/09/16/BAGCM8PN3I1.DTL
Joan Ryan
"On the front page of The Chronicle on Wednesday, reporter Patricia Yollin wrote about a garden that two residents of a crime-plagued San Francisco street planted on a median strip two years ago. As the flowers and tomatoes grew, the neighborhood began to change, as if the garden itself had cast some kind of spell.
The unregistered vehicles that once cluttered the street disappeared. A dilapidated house is about to be renovated. The music blaring at all hours from parked cars has quieted. The daily dumping of liquor bottles and fast- food wrappers onto the street and sidewalk has decreased by 60 or 70 percent. "
