Urban Garden Lost and Erased

Those of you who live in Los Angeles may remember a little 14 acre garden at the edge of the area formerly known as ‘South Central Los Angeles’. This is what it looked like from 1992 till about the end 2007.

It really was a little gem in the area until it was lost. It was the lifeblood of immgrants in the area who occupied the area in the post la-riots neighborhood. This farm/garden sustained families in the area many of them immigrants legal and illegal alike.  Honest people who were just tying to survive in Los Angeles. This farm/garden put food on their table it was an escape from the struggles and pressures of life, more than that it was a place where immigrant parents could pass down culture to their children. http://www.southcentralfarmers.com/ documented the fight and struggle to save this place. There was even a documentary made about it- you can find the link in the above link.
The fight of the immigrant farmers was the inspiration for a lot of good things, for instance Darryl Hanna lived in one of the trees on site in protest. It even generated local design groups like modioperandi to create posters and signs early on for the cause -at no cost to the farmers-.

In anycase the land didnt ever really leaglly belong to the farmers or even to the city. LHIC claimed it had owned the property since 1992 and reclaimed the land in 07/08 driving out the farmers and bringing it to the condition it show on google maps today. – 41st Garden on Google Maps

 These 14 acres in LA are long gone, in its day it was the largest urban farm in the nation and now its gone, it dosnt even exist in google maps anymore! Its too bad that now in these economically down times that this place
now seems to be long-gone and forgotten. If there is a urban garden in
your neighborhood keep it alive. If there exists a place that can be
turned into a urban garden/farm try and make it one!

Please save and create good places.