By Adrian Florido
Two-and-a-half months after the City Council legalized community gardens on most vacant lots, at least two parcels are already being primed to nurture their first seeds. Both gardens are being started by nonprofits that serve low-income or immigrant neighborhoods in Mount Hope and Linda Vista.
As it embraces and promotes urban agriculture, San Diego is working on several more law changes to give would-be urban farmers more options for producing and even selling their own food.
City planners are drafting changes to land use laws that would legalize backyard chickens, goats, and beekeeping. Another change would permit retail farms — a hybrid between a farm and grocery store where a business owner could set up a small-scale commercial growing operation and sell the products on site.