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Self-Sustaining Communities

Voice     (510) 230-5100
Web       http://www.self-sustainingcommunities.org/

A Richmond, CA, organization working with low-income residents and community members to create wide-scale, environmentally sustainable local food production in distressed and needy neighborhoods. An entirely volunteer organization, SSC has helped launch three urban farms in low income, high crime areas of Richmond since 2010—Parchester Village, North Richmond, and the S.W. Richmond Annex. These projects have engaged a wide spectrum of the community, from the mayor to recently released offenders, in a “from-the-ground-up process” to reclaim and rejuvenate abandoned and blighted parcels and make them hubs of productivity.

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energy       local food       self-sufficiency       sustainability       transportation       trees

This entry's contact information was last verified in September of 2021.

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