For 13 years, 350 families have tended a 14-acre urban 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 meso-american cuisine and folk-medicine alive. This urban farm, the largest in the U.S., provides a safe, children-friendly environment for 350 families and thousands of visitors who come to the lively farmers market on Sundays. The farm is also an oasis of green-space that helps to lessen air and water pollution in the surrounding community. The trouble is that these lush 14 acres were on loan and now the owner is asking to have them back. To read more about the saga of Los Angeles' South Central Farmers, see: http://www.southcentralfarmers.com