The Quesada Gardens General Store is the new place to go to buy products that support local community in San Francisco's Bayview neighborhood.
Welcome to the online retail store for products and their Makers in San Francisco's Southeast neighborhoods. Quesada Gardens General Store brings local products and entrepreneurs to the world. The Quesada Gardens General Store is also a grassroots incubator of small business in the unsung southeast corner of San Francisco where the city's independent spirit endures, and where new ideas are still hammered out the old fashioned way. The community of people behind the Quesada Gardens General Store are part of the celebrated Quesada Gardens community building initiative that transformed a notorious place into a model of sustainability, beauty and social justice. In the heart of the Bayview neighborhood, people are connected where they had once been fearful and isolated. A place locals avoided is now the safe path through town, bustling with gardens, art projects, and a street culture that honors everyone. Community builders want the Quesada Gardens General Store to be as successful as the grassroots community initiative it grew from so that profits from the store can help sustain the gardens into the future. YamStreet is the anchor small business in the Quesada Gardens General Store. YamStreet is a fashion and apparel company and the maker of "Yammies," high-quality lounge pants stitched in Bayview. YamStreet business partners Jeffrey Betcher and Brandon Oldham have worked through the nonprofit group Quesada Gardens Initiative to build the Quesada Gardens General Store as a service to the community, and to show that there are lots of ways to build vibrant community in places that need it. YamStreet, the company they are launching through the General Store, is Jeffrey and Brandon's "skin in the game."; It is an enterprise built on the belief that the line between grassroots community building and community emergent business is thin as yam peel.
