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Within 60 days, the City of Phoenix will be taking back the land they own located at 2615 S 27th Avenue, where Frank has been farming the last 10 years. It is needed now in order to expand the City’s water sewage plant. Farmer Frank has been an anchor for the local food movement in Arizona, including its tribal communities, for more than 20 years. Crooked Sky Farms supplies much needed food to our Arizona families, and even more during the recent COVID-19 pandemic. Crooked Sky Farms is generous with their donations and has worked to form critical partnerships to address food access challenges across the state.
Farmer Frank, son of a Native American migrant farm worker, continues the Native American traditions of using Heirloom seeds, natural care for the soil, crop rotation, and other sustainable farming practices. He believes in the "Stewardship of the Land," where first priority always remains taking good care of the land, plants, animals, and people. Like many others, his farm is vital to continuing to build a resilient local food system.
The City of Phoenix offered Farmer Frank $55,000 to help him move his farm. However, this amount falls drastically short of covering the costs that would occur due to crop loss, moving expenses, job loss and continued wages for his 14 employees, and the years it has taken Frank to nurture the soil on this farm so that it is fertile and productive. The City has also verbally offered Frank to help him find a piece of property on which to farm, pay the rent for the land for the next two years, and install the necessary farm utilities to make his new location operational. Unfortunately, they are now backing off this verbal agreement.
Arizona is rapidly losing viable farmland and losing Crooked Sky Farms would be devastating to our farming community.
To HELP, please fill out this form to send a letter to Phoenix City Council and Martha Ojeda at Acquisition Sciences, LTD, to let them know how valuable Crooked Sky Farms is to our communities and food system and how important it is to have the City of Phoenix stand by their commitment to fully help this farm transition to a new site and be able to continue farming.
Action Alert: Support Crooked Sky Farms
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