Adah's Stairway, the planted passage between lower Waller St. and Buena Vista East commemorated earlier this month in honor of inveterate city walker Adah Bakalinsky, is currently gearing up for some more work.
After the installation of over 100 native plants to the area, Nature In The City announced yesterday that it was seeking financial support for the installation of extra stone walls in the park.
The stone walls, which will be designed to retain the plantings and soil and to discourage through traffic, according to an email from Nature In The City representative Amber Hasselbring, are not covered by the funding awarded the park in a grant earlier this year.
Said Hasselbring in an email, "The stone wall is needed because the current straw wattles are not holding up and are compromising the planting we have done and will be doing. In addition, we will be creating a more productive and beautiful space for wildlife with stable and more level soils, and we will be enhancing the physical appeal of the gardens for all to enjoy."
Hasselbring said that of the $5,000 needed to compete the wall, $1,500 had already been raised. If you're interested in chipping in to help supplement the grant's funding, tax-deductible checks can be made to Urban Resource Systems (C/O 783 Buena Vista West, San Francisco, CA 94117; refer to Adah’s Stairway in the memo line).
And if you want to help out non-financially, you're invited to come out for work days on Sunday, September 20 from 10am to noon or Tuesday, September 29 from 2pm to 5pm, when crews will be hard at work finishing some more landscaping and planting 300 additional plants.
