From center field to table

Photo: EDG Design Group. An artist's rendering of the Giants Garden, a 3,000 square foot edible garden slated to open for the 2014 baseball season at AT&T Park.

By Janny Hu

Come next season, a Buster Posey home run might just be landing in a strawberry patch.

President Obama, who honored the Giants at the White House on July 29 for their 2012 World Series championship, also announced the team's plan to construct an edible garden at AT&T Park.

The ambitious project, dubbed the Giants Garden, calls for a 3,000-square-foot organic garden to be planted behind the center-field wall, a space between the left- and right-field bleachers that is now mostly concrete and the area where replacement sod is grown. It would be the first such facility at any professional sports venue in the United States.

Eventually, the garden would be used to supply food for the park's catering operations, and double as an open-air restaurant and community classroom.

"We really wanted to be able to do something that is not just very San Francisco, but a part of today's world," said Larry Baer, Giants president and CEO. "The commitment we're making is to create this garden and use that real estate in a way that's productive. We think it's the perfect solution."

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