CoCo San Sustainable Farm
(.5 miles East of 5501 Imhoff Drive, Martinez @ just east of NE Corner of Hwy 680 and Hwy 4)
It costs $1 a day to feed a child a salad & 35 cents to feed a child pizza. The CoCo San Sustainable Farm which is a project of AgLantis TM (also known as Ag Lantis TM) working with Central Contra Costa Sanitary District (CCCSD) in Martinez, CA. Most schools can not afford t
hat. The Contra Costa Food Bank can not get salad vegetables because they are highly perishable and unavailable locally. We will be providing free produce to schools and the food bank. We will grow produce on 15 acres of unused Central San buffer land, using recycled agricultural-grade water, which is otherwise discharged into the Bay. This recycled water is high in organic nitrogen, providing free fertilizer. FOOD EQUITY: Loaves and Fishes of Contra Costa picks up the produce and cooks free hot nutritious meals for clients. Hence, we are deploying under-utilized resources to nearly eliminate 4 of the major costs of food production: LAND, WATER, FERTILIZER, and TRANSPORTATION. EDUCATION: One of the primary goals of the farm is to educate. Every aspect of science touches a farm such as physics, soil science, hydrology, meteorology, and nutrition. ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND JOB TRAINING: We take interns from the local high schools and provide them job training opportunities. ENVIRONMENT: The environment will also benefit because we rebuild barren soil, plant crops that sequester carbon and clean the air and increase ground water benefiting two adjacent creeks. We also reduce the major types of carbon pollution associated with food production: FOSSIL FUEL-BASED FERTILIZER and TRANSPORT. SCALABLE: Sanitary districts in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties discharge as much as a billion gallons of water per day into the Bay. These districts also have about a thousand of acres of buffer land. Our business model is scalable and our farm, once proven, can be replicated with other sanitary districts to utilize these precious resources and greatly reduce nutritional poverty of their rate-payers. An apple a day will not keep the doctor away. But a salad a day might! Contact: Dr. Carolyn Phinney, [email protected], 925-788-7374 TEXT FIRST.
