Huarache Farms LLC
For profit business
Our mission is to build a transparently run cooperative of backyard farms that provide sustainable and local food while keeping the majority of the money in the local economy. In all aspects of our practice we strive for economic, biological, and democratic sustainability.
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Submitted Ideas
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Idea about how to make LA a better place to live, submitted by this organization in the 2020 challenge.
Make LA the best place to LIVE
One of five LA2050 Goals
Our region’s residents have the economic means and cultural capital to lead active, healthy lives, and everyone benefits from a sustainable environment.
In 2050, Los Angeles will have the nation’s lowest obesity rates and every neighborhood will have access to healthy, affordable food. Every family will be able to afford quality health care and housing. And no families will face environmental health hazards because of where they live or how much money they make.
Huarache Farms: Building Transparent Cooperative Backyard Farms
With this funding, Huarache Farms will dramatically expand our current growing capacity. This will allow us to begin selling at three additional farmers’ markets and deliver food to a far greater portion of LA County. We will reinvest in our community through on-the-job education. Our training will enable new farmers to provide for themselves and their communities. The willingness and workforce is there; our ability to provide affordable and healthy food is limited only by our capacity to exp... Learn more