Brief points from the article:
"Last Monday, the Alameda Unified School District leveled the classroom buildings at the former site of Island High School at Eagle Avenue and Everett Street. If members of Local Edible Alameda Farms (LEAF) have their way, the property would come full circle as a garden.
According to an 1882 story in Pacific Rural Press, Pancoast began planting British Queen strawberries in 1852. He had gotten the seeds from a sea captain who had obtained them in Australia.
Two years after the district moved the school in 2006, a developer came to the district with the idea of building low-income housing on the site. The neighbors would have none of it. In January 2011 the district declared the property as surplus.
Now more than two years later the school is gone. Some in the community are hoping the district will strip the property bare so it can come full circle as a garden. Perhaps someone will remember to plant some strawberries."
You can read about it here:
http://www.alamedasun.com/local-and-hometown/11537-school-site-razed
Thank you very mulch!
-The Project LEAF team.
