[CPEO-BIF] City Slicker’s farm, Oakland, California

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

City Slicker's farm springs up in West Oakland

The former brownfield at the corner of 28th and Peralta streets is set 
to be converted into a park and community farm within the next few years.

By Terria Smith
Oakland North (CA)
November 17, 2010

A piece of vacant land just under an acre and a half sits on the 
northwest corner of 28th and Peralta streets. Like a lot of freeway 
perimeter sites in West Oakland, the former brownfield is in the middle 
of both industrial and residential areas. It's wedged between operating 
and abandoned warehouses, but less than a block north are occupied 
homes. Overgrown grass and litter clutter the triangular plot enclosed 
by a battered, chain-link fence. "Right now it's just an empty lot with 
a big hole in it," said Barbara Finnin, executive director of the West 
Oakland-based nonprofit City Slicker Farms. "So it needs help."

Thanks to a $4 million grant from the California State Parks Department, 
which City Slicker Farms was awarded on November 8, the parcel will soon 
be transformed into a community farm and park. Although the department 
allows organizations up to eight years to get their programs 
established, Finnin estimates that City Slicker Farms will break ground 
for the community farm at the end of 2011.

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For the entire article, see
http://oaklandnorth.net/2010/11/17/city-slickers-farm-springs-up-in-west-oakland/

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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