The Lessons of Fresno’s Ingenious Underground Gardens
For 40 years, Italian Immigrant Baldassare Forestiere Wielded a Pickax to Dig His California Dream Home
In our search for inspiring new ideas for solving California’s housing crisis, we must dig deeper. We must take our cues from Archimedes, “Give me a place on which to stand, and I will move the earth.”
How deep must we dig? At least to the depths plumbed by Baldassare Forestiere.
If you’ve never heard of Forestiere, you’re not alone. He’s never become the household name he should be in California. He deserves far more recognition for being the creator of Fresno’s greatest structure, which is also one of our state’s …