“He also figured out how to stabilize the sand and make the soil arable, coming upon a solution almost by accident. After noticing that barley spilled from a horse’s feed bag sprouted in the sand, he sowed quick-growing grasses along with native lupines and other species.”
From “Urban Oasis,” about San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park and its original designer Wiliam Hammond Hall’s first efforts in the 1870s to carve a green park out of an expanse of sand dunes, in the March-April 2010 issue of Via, published by AAA.
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