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For Immediate Release:
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.
Please stay tuned for further details by visiting:
www.southcentralfarmers.com
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