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  • From: "Robert Waldrop" <bwaldrop@cox.net>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [permaculture] Please help save the South Central LA Community Farm
  • Date: Fri, 3 Mar 2006 22:56:14 -0600

This is terrible news for all concerned about the Earth.

Please help save the South Central LA Urban Farm!

There are 14 acres of property in South Central LA that have been used since 1992 as a community garden. It is thought to be the largest urban community garden in the nation. 350 families have plots there. Through a series of political shenanigans, the City decided to sell the property, and apparently a Wal Mart warehouse will be built on the land. The farmers organization has been served with an eviction notice dated March 1, 2006, giving them until Monday March 6 at the close of business. The group is asking people to contact the mayor of Los Angeles and ask for city intervention on behalf of the farmers.

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Email: mayor@lacity.org Phone: (213)978-0600
You can contact the group directly at

southcentralfarmers@yahoo.com

There is a lot more information, including pictures and more history of the group, also news of rallies in the Los Angeles area, at

http://www.southcentralfarmers.com/

http://www.southcentralfarmers.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12&Itemid=9
or http://tinyurl.com/rt54f

Please pass this news on to others.

Bob Waldrop
www.bobwaldrop.net

Here is a snip from the group's website:

From the group's website:
Since 1992, 14 acres of property located at 41st and Alameda Streets in Los Angeles have been used as a community garden. The land has been divided into 360 plots and is believed to be one of the largest urban gardens in the country. The City of Los Angeles acquired the 14-acre property by eminent domain in the late 1980s, taking it from nine private landowners. . . The City originally intended to use the property for a trash incinerator, but abandoned that plan in the face of public protest. . . In 1992, the City set aside the 14-acre site for use as a community garden. In 1994, the City transferred the property by ordinance to its Harbor Department. When it received title to the property, the Harbor Department contracted with the Los Angeles Regional Foodbank to operate the property as a community garden, the Foodbank has been operating it as such since then.





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