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Tucked into the southern slope of Bernal Hill and shadowed by the traffic of I-280, Alemany Farm is home to the largest urban agricultural site in San Francisco — and medicinal herb garden.

“It’s a public medicine chest,” said clinical herbalist Bonnie Rose Weaver who founded the garden in partnership with Friends of Alemany Farm , “And it’s open 365 days a year.”

The Medicine Garden holds more than 60 species of medicinal plants, culinary herbs, and edible flowers, many of them uncommon outside specialty stores. Calendula blooms alongside collards. Plants like boneset, skullcap, yerba mansa, and bee balm thrive not in neat rows, but in a na

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