Within the confines of a tentative purchase agreement, TPL hopes to help unify stakeholders and different sectors of Los Angeles to raise the money necessary to purchase the land. The community goal is to raise $1 million in less than 30 days.

Without the help of donors, both major and modest, the fate of the South Central Farm remains in doubt. Help save this important community asset and transform it into a true multi-cultural regional resource built on the unique relationship between people and the land.

-Checks should be made payable to “The Trust for Public Land”, Please write “South Central Farm” in the memo line of your check
-All donations are tax deductible, TPL is a 501(3)c non-profit organization.
-Visit the Parks for People website at www.tpl.org/p4pla

Mail checks and information requests to
The Trust for Public Land
3250 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 2003
Los Angeles, CA 90010

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Rescametos la Huerta del Sur Centro!
LA ORGANIZACIÓN TRUST FOR PUBLIC LAND (FONDO PARA
TIERRA PUBLICA) HA LOGRADO LA OPORTUNIDAD DE
RESCATAR LA HUERTA DEL SUR CENTRO!
La Huerta está localizada en entre las calles 41 y Alameda en el
Sur Centro de Los Angeles, y quizás es la huerta comunitaria más grande— de tamaño de 14 acres — en los Estados Unidos. Después de un contencioso esfuerzo sobre esta propriedad que duró tres años y hizo noticias a trávez del mundo, el Trust for Public Land (TPL) ha obtenido la oportunidad de rescatar la
Huerta. De un acuerdo tentativo para comprar el terreno, TPL espera unificar a todos los intereses y sectores diferentes en Los Angeles para recaudar fondos necesarios para comprar esta propiedad.

Necesitamos su ayuda para alcanzar esta meta comunitaria de recaudar $1 millón en menos de 30 días. Los Angeles debe de tomar acción para rescatar este terreno. Tenemos la gran oportunidad de eliminar la inigualdad de parques en esta comunidad urbana y semi-industrial. Podemos hacer permanente los beneficios culturales de este oasis y traerlos al público para apoyar a las 360 familias en sus esfuerzos de
cosechar frutas, vegetales y plantas medicinales para suplementar su comida y bien estar. Sin la ayuda de los donantes –grandes o pequeños- el destino de la Huerta del Sur Centro queda en
duda. Tenemos que ayúdar a rescatar este beneficio comunitario y transformarlo en un verdadero recurso regional y multi-cultural creado sobre la relación de la gente y la tierra.

Si gusta más información sobre el proyecto, la recaudación de fondos, o Parks for People-LA, favor de llamar a Alina Bokde 213.380-4233 x27 o Marybeth Vergara, 213-380-4233 x17.
-Cheques deben ser escritos al “Trust for Public Land”
-Por favor escriban “South Central Farm” en la línea de nota en su cheque -Incluya la porción debajo de este folleto con su cheque
-Todas las donaciones son deducibles para los impuestos, TPL is una organización no lucrative 501(c)3
Visite el website de Parks for People www.tpl.org/p4pla

Mande sus cheques y solicitud para más información al
Trust for Public Land 3250 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 2003 Los Angeles, CA 90010

what? could we get this in english too?

maybe its not meant for you.

I'm guessing a version for you will come out in due course.

1st paragraph In English, see above

Just it also is intended for us. That plays the important factor in the world.

I kinda feel sorry for these people.... then reality sets in.
It is not their land. Period. No matter what they say it is not.

This was a temporary deal. And their time is up.
Threatning civil disobedience is just another arrogant,
dont mess with me but we can mess with you all we want atitude.
The same mind set that criminals and bullies employ.


That includes political strategies for saving the farm, which became the farmer-organizers’ focus after L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo’s office agreed to sell the land back to former owner Ralph Horowitz in a 2003 closed-session settlement. In January 2004, the L.A. Regional Food Bank received written notice from Horowitz that their--> revocable permit to occupy the land would be terminated the following month.


For years, the land sat unused, but in July 1994 the Harbor Department granted a ----> revocable permit to the LA Regional Food Bank – a private, nonprofit organization housed across the street from the farm site that coordinates food distribution to local charities – to ---->temporarily occupy and use the site as a community garden.

The farm owes its existence, in part, to the legacy of the 1992 riots sparked by the police beating of a local black man, Rodney King, which was captured on video. After the riots city authorities agreed to put something back into a blighted community, and allowed the Los Angeles Food Bank, a charity assisting poorer communities, to take --->temporary possession of the land to establish a community garden.

The plot had earlier been bought from a developer, Ralph Horowitz, for $4.7m (£2.7m) under a compulsory purchase order. Soon after, the $2.4bn Alameda corridor plan to link the city with its ports was approved, and the land's value soared. Mr Horowitz fought through the courts to buy back the land, saying he had a --->first-refusal clause in his sale contract.

In a deal with the city attorney he---> paid $5m for it, and eviction notices were promptly sent out. The farmers have gone to court to challenge this deal. Mr Horowitz says that if they offer him the market rate for it - which he says is above $13m - they can keep the land.

The city's mayor, ---> Antonio Villaraigosa,
(No surprize whose side he's on)
has indicated that his office is trying to secure a compromise, involving Mr Horowitz selling the land to a public trust.


This suit of thiers should of been thrown out of court. How can anyone in their right mind, think that they can file a suit
on an issue where they indeed have no say?
Am I overstating the obvious?
What part of temporary and revocable do they not understand? We are not speaking of spoiled children here......
This entire thing is preposterous.
What they are doing is illegal!
If the shoe were on the other foot, who would be screaming the loudest???

Im curious as to how many of these farmers are even legal citizens.....

Somebody had to say it, it may as well be me.

Villaraigosa was not in full support of this. Had he been, he would have found the money to buy back the land and dedicate it to its current use as a farm.

Instead, he stood back and arranged a situation where the community has to come up with some of the money to buy this land. A lot of anti-farm people are under the impresson that the government is paying for this land. It's not. These anti-farm right-wingers need to study the situation more closely, and get beyond their preconceived ideas about what's happening. (in other words: remove head from ass)

This is a big step away from the traditional role of government exercising eminent domain for the public good. In fact, it's a step toward privatization, in some respects, because it basically says that even if you have a lot of political support to use city money to buy land, the city may still require that the community produce funds to buy the land -- above and beyond the money they've already paid in taxes to the public coffers.

Villaraigosa and the city council are giving up their role as stewards of the public good, and relying on NGOs to be the stewards.

This isn't really "good" or "bad". It's both. On the one hand, it gives power to NGOs that might be more responsive to the community, and bring together regular people and land-use experts. On the other hand, it's shutting the door to public participation in government. Land that is politicized becomes privately held under a trust that probably throws the land-use issues to the civil courts.

It's reminiscent of the Nature Conservancy. Look them up.

I heard that the L.A. Times reported that a soccer field would be built on part of the land. Is this true? If so, would it replace part of the farm?