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[arethinn]

via rialian:

For thirteen years, in the depressed inner city of south central LA, 250 families have been feeding themselves on with organic fruits and vegetables grown on a farm that was once completely paved and considered completely useless for growing anything on.

The farm has almost zero fossil fuel imput and zero transport cost. It's a model the whole world should be copying, but instead the city has decided to give them an eviction notice. The sheriff's office delivered the notice on March 1st. This farm does great things, and its in everybody's best interest that it survive.

The city wants to replace it with a Wal-Mart.

Comments

[lothie.livejournal.com]

As with most things, this is not a black and white issue.

[halyn.livejournal.com]

What an awful dilemma. Should the farm stay? Ideally, yes, but it -is- on someone else's property, someone who's been paying for that land for more than a decade :(

If people are that serious about encouraging the garden project (and I think they should be), some compromise should be pursued. Maybe fundraise to compensate the guy for his land, or pay rent, or sell off only part of it.

[spartydragon.livejournal.com]

Supido!!! They should leave it alone! I've learned in anthroplogy that small scale farming is actualy more efficent than the mega farms we silly westerners like to do.

[uncledark.livejournal.com]

Well, think about it. Which option is more in the city's interests:
That a large number of people be able to feed themselves reletively well with minimal impact on the infrastructure,

Or that Wal-Mart be able to make millions for people who live far away, demand concessions on taxes, and mess up the public infrastructure?

Oh, the Wal-Mart, of course.

Feh.