The Terremoto SF office plans to investigate various weeding and seeding methodologies that can be applied to the rest of Starr King and to Terremoto projects. We hope to grow some starts from archival seed from the site. And we’ll be figuring out how to water as little as possible since there is no great access nearby.

But first, we will get to know the site through regular observations for a WHOLE YEAR. During this time our only intervention will be passive restoration through the careful removal of certified grade A weeds. We just met, but we’re looking forward to developing a deep relationship with this land. We’re hoping that by slowing, listening, looking and being with, we’ll develop an ability to hear what the site is telling us it needs. This slow, relational approach is borrowed wisdom from our friends at The Cultural Conservancy which we picked up on our visit to their Heron Shadow project. 

We’re also hoping to engage with local community through this plot — Starr King regulars, volunteers from the Test Plot / Terremoto-verse, and new faces from the neighborhood.