
The Garden (2008) on Netflix
NR20081h 20mDocumentary
After the 1992 Los Angeles riots, the South Central Farmers turned a 14-acre lot into the country's largest community garden. Now a developer and the city want them gone.
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In South Central Los Angeles, a 14-acre lot became the largest community garden in the United States. A mostly Latino group of farmers, the South Central Farmers, took it up as a form of healing after the 1992 riots, growing food, feeding their families and building a community in a blighted part of the city. The city then handed the land back to its original owner, Ralph Horowitz, in a transaction the farmers disputed, and he decided they could no longer farm there. Los Angeles officials and a developer back a plan that would clear the garden and put warehouses on the site. The farmers organize to hold onto their garden.






















