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Labor and its outcomes are central components of justice and urban agriculture
The Garden and Save the Farm . This trend is slowly infiltrating Southeastern San Diego. Mt. Hope Community Garden recently found out its property was being sold when a for-sale sign showed up on their fence. Elizabeth Studebaker, Neighborhood Investment Manager at the City of San Diego notes that the property “historically had been dedicated for…
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The AAA was a comprehensive program designed to reduce production and provide floor prices
By mid-decade, “up to 40,000 head entered annually” . Large numbers of sheep were also driven in from the Southwest to augment the 17,500 sheep that were in California in 1850. In the peak year of 1856, 200,000 head of sheep entered California. But the rancheros quickly lost out to American entrepreneurs who understood far…