[Scpg] Ceremony to defend farm 10/30 LA

[Wesley Roe and Marjorie Lakin Erickson]

There will be a Candlelight Ceremony Sunday, October 30th to stop the 
developer from building a warehouse at 41st St. and Long Beach Ave., home 
of the South Central Community Farm. The event will also celebrate the Day 
of the Dead

350 families – organized as South Central Farmers – have camped out in the 
field for weeks to prevent developper Horowitz from grabbing the land.  A 
sneak attack could come at any time. The group will hold a candlelight 
ceremony on Sunday to call public attention to their plight, as well as 
celebrate the traditional holiday, Day of the Dead.

Candlelight Ceremony is sponsored by Anahuak Sport Association, Willie C. 
Velasquez Institute and Mujeres de Maiz.

Who: South Central Farmers
What: Candlelight Ceremony
When: Sunday, Oct. 30, 5:30 p.m.
Where: 41st St. and Long Beach Ave.

More about the South Central Farm:
For 13 years, 350 families have tended a 14-acre community 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 traditional cuisine and folk-medicine alive.

The City of L.A. acquired the land in the late 1980s, but abandoned plans 
to build a trash incinerator after community protests.  In 1994, officials 
transferred title to the Harbor Department, which contracted with the L.A. 
Regional Food Bank to operate a community farm on the property.  In 2003, 
the City Council agreed to sell the 14 acres back to the original owner, 
private developer Ralph Horowitz, who wants to demolish the garden and 
build a warehouse.

Media contact Fernando Flores
             (909) 605-3136 cellular

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