South Central Farmers’ eviction stayed while they exercise their legal rights as tenants. South Central Los Angeles, CA, March 6, 2006 - Last Friday and today, several tenants of the 41st and Alameda farm site filed a form at the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department claiming a right of possession to the property. Today, these tenants submitted the form they filed with the Sheriff’s Department to the Los Angeles Superior Court. The Court scheduled a hearing on March 13, 2006, to decide the tenants’ claim that they have a right to be in possession of the property. Filing the claim of right to possession means that evictions should not take place until at least March 13, 2006.
An eviction notice was posted on the west gate of the South Central Farm by the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department at 2:00pm, yesterday March 1, 2006. According to the notice the 14 acre farm (the largest urban farm in the nation) needs to be vacated by Monday March 6, 2006. Until the end of that day, it will still be legal for the farmers to remain on the land.
For 13 years, 350 families have tended a 14-acre urban farm in the middle of South L.A.’s gritty industrial belt. Growing their own cabbage, potatoes, tomatoes and other staples has helped make good nutrition affordable. Traditional crops like chipillin, alachi, quelite and pipicha have helped keep meso-american cuisine and folk-medicine alive. This urban farm, the largest in the U.S., provides a safe, children-friendly environment for 350 families and thousands of visitors who come to the lively farmers market on Sundays. The farm is also an oasis of green-space that helps to lessen air and water pollution in the surrounding community.
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