Dragonspunk works to reverse generations of neglect in Bayview, where 'a lot of the needs are based on injustice'
When author and activist James Baldwin visited Bayview-Hunters Point in 1963 to explore racism for KQED’s film “Take This Hammer,” he famously called the Black enclave “the San Francisco America pretends does not exist.”
For outsiders, it would be easy to bypass Bayview. But when Isaiah Powell, a food activist from Poughkeepsie, N.Y., first visited the neighborhood in 2019, he couldn’t look away.Powell and his life partner, Danielle Calibird Fernandez, founded a nonprofit called Dragonspunk, which works to reverse generations of neglect in Bayview. The nucleus is Calibird Pollinator Sanctuary and Food Forest at Palou Avenue and Dunshee Street, which they’ve stewarded since 2021.
Ex // Top Stories Rain is coming back to The City, thanks to a trio of storms Meteorologists with the National Weather Service expect as many as 2 inches to fall in San Francisco this weekend The pineapple guava, Gravenstein apple, pomegranate, avocado, fig and dwarf grapefruit trees ensure that the next generation will have access to fresh fruit.
“That gives me the opportunity to show with data how to remove toxins from the soil using myco- and phytoremediation techniques,” Powell said.
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