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If you’re going to San Francisco, it’s still okay to wear flowers in your hair …

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On August 17, 2007

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… but be sure to arrive with a job, it says here.

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  1. Nancy

    That article has certainly generated a lot of comments in the WSJ Forum – very interesting. I think that if I were graduating from high school now, instead of back in 1963, I would not come to SF. I love the city but the tight job market and high prices are certainly not what I anticipated when I came here. But nothing beats 20-20 hindsight.

    August 17, 2007

  2. Adidas

    San Francisco is an amazing city. I absolutely love it. Not the weather, though… Sure, when it’s a clear day and the sun is out, it’s spectacular. It does tend to be cool and windy, though. There are some crazy microclimates there–on a summer day, San Francisco might be in the 60s/70ish, Berkeley or Oakland in the 70s, and then just east of the hills it could be 100!

    August 30, 2007

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Our garden lies in what Sunset calls “one of Northern California’s finest horticultural climates.” We are located in an area of wet mild winters and dry mild summers — a Mediterranean climate zone. It’s region with unique challenges and opportunities. I love gardening here.

Approaches to gardening are strongly determined by scale. Our garden is a small family garden. Its core was formerly a swimming pool. Often we might be growing just a single plant in a container, or a handful of plants, where a larger-scale gardening operation might be planting long rows of crops. Over time we have adjusted to find the right balance for our home garden.

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All this new stuff goes on top
turn it over, turn it over
wait and water down
from the dark bottom
turn it inside out
let it spread through
Sift down even
Watch it sprout.

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