{"id":154,"date":"2011-06-03T17:50:19","date_gmt":"2011-06-03T17:50:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.speakcityheights.org\/?p=154"},"modified":"2011-06-08T17:41:50","modified_gmt":"2011-06-08T17:41:50","slug":"red-tape-turns-a-green-farm-into-an-eyesore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/red-tape-turns-a-green-farm-into-an-eyesore\/","title":{"rendered":"Red Tape Turns a Green Farm into an Eyesore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mceTemp\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<dl id=\"attachment_156\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"width: 530px;\">\n<dt class=\"wp-caption-dt\"><a href=\"http:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/4de027cdc8f94.image_-e1307128350142.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-156 \" title=\"se_sd_farm_vosd\" src=\"http:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/4de027cdc8f94.image_-e1307128498763.jpg\" alt=\"Image of a community farm now blighted after the city shut it down\" width=\"520\" height=\"345\" align=\"alignnone\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #444444; font-weight: normal; line-height: 10px; font-size: 9px;\">Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson<\/span><\/dt>\n<\/dl>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">By Adrian Florido<br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;\">Published May 30, 2011 on<br \/>\n<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-79\" title=\"logo_vosd_small\" src=\"http:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/logo_vosd_small.gif\" alt=\"Logo for voice of san diego dot org\" width=\"202\" height=\"22\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/speakcityheights.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/logo_vosd_small.gif\"><\/a>For close to three decades, a group of mostly poor Cambodian refugees eked out a subsistence living by farming a parcel of land at the end of a southeastern San Diego cul-de-sac. The sprawling farm was impressive. Over the years the refugees had erected a fence, huts for resting and their own irrigation system.<\/p>\n<p>But the land was owned by the city of San Diego, and the farmers didn&#8217;t have the right to be there. Last year, the half dozen who remained were evicted.<\/p>\n<p>In the 10 months since, what was once a rare expanse of productive green in a poor residential neighborhood has fallen into unsightly disrepair. The fences have folded in on themselves. The rare Southeast Asian crops that the aging farmers grew, like bitter melon and Cambodian green beans, have all died. A pile of old mattresses has been left at the farm. It has become a dumping ground and a blight.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.voiceofsandiego.org\/survival\/article_e7cab370-88c8-11e0-aae6-001cc4c002e0.html\">Click here to read the rest<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido Published May 30, 2011 on For close to three decades, a group of mostly poor Cambodian refugees eked out a subsistence living by farming a parcel of land at the end of a southeastern San Diego cul-de-sac. The sprawling farm was impressive. 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