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CoCo San Sustainable Farm Regenerative Agriculture, Carbon Sequestration, Organic Farming, Charity Farm PROBLEM & PROPOSED SOLUTION: It costs $1 a day to feed a child a salad.

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 that. 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.

Great homesteading video!
10/03/2026

Great homesteading video!

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We can help drawdown carbon and feed people at the same time.https://www.facebook.com/FactFuel9/posts/pfbid02eXCXP7Jm1ML...
09/27/2026

We can help drawdown carbon and feed people at the same time.

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An apartment courtyard can offer more than a patch of grass and a few benches. In parts of France, shared residential spaces and community planting projects have included fruit trees, allowing residents to enjoy leafy shade during warmer months while also having seasonal fruit growing close to home.

Apple, pear, plum, cherry, and other suitable trees can turn an open courtyard into a greener gathering place. As their branches develop, they create natural shade over seating and walking areas, while blossoms add color and provide food for pollinating insects. When the fruit ripens, residents may be able to pick and share the harvest. Successful community orchards still require planning: trees need suitable soil, watering, pruning, and enough room for their roots and branches. Shared rules can also help ensure that ripe fruit is collected fairly and fallen fruit is cleared from pathways.

The same tree therefore provides several benefits throughout the year. Spring brings blossoms, summer brings shade, and harvest season can bring baskets of fresh fruit for neighbors to share. Fruit trees will not fit every courtyard, but suitable spaces can become more useful without requiring a separate garden for each household. Instead of landscaping that is mainly decorative, a shared courtyard can become a small productive green space—one where residents can sit beneath the branches and later enjoy something grown above their heads.

Always great to get young people involved in urban farming.
09/16/2026

Always great to get young people involved in urban farming.

Just found this great photo of my co-founder Bethallyn Black. Bethallyn Black Sheila Sidhu Hill
09/16/2026

Just found this great photo of my co-founder Bethallyn Black. Bethallyn Black Sheila Sidhu Hill

Nature knows best. We need to learn to work with, instead of against, the rest of the natural world.
09/06/2026

Nature knows best. We need to learn to work with, instead of against, the rest of the natural world.

Turns out, sometimes the best river engineer is a beaver 🦫

Since 2019, researchers and wildlife officials in Utah have been relocating beavers from places where their dams cause conflicts with people to dry landscapes where their skills are desperately needed. Once there, the beavers get to work building dams that slow rivers, create ponds and wetlands and keep more water on the landscape. Researchers say these habitats can improve water quality and provide homes for fish and other wildlife.

And they’re already seeing some remarkable results. One female relocated in 2022 established a family in her new home and helped widen a stream. When researchers returned, they found a newly formed pond filled with native Yellowstone cutthroat trout. The program now relocates about 60 beavers a year — giving animals once considered “nuisances” a chance to become ecosystem engineers somewhere they’re needed.

Carbon credits for carbon sequestration in soil provide farmers another income stream.Bethallyn Black Alice Tai Elizabet...
09/05/2026

Carbon credits for carbon sequestration in soil provide farmers another income stream.

Bethallyn Black Alice Tai Elizabeth Kaiser U.S. Department of Agriculture

Sheila Sidhu Hill

CEE Professor Peter Adriaens and his team are turning soil carbon into a valuable asset, ensuring that sustainable agriculture is a path towards long-term land value

04/10/2026

PG&E volunteers did such a great job of helping us with weeding, mulching, planting citrus trees and their arborust even trimmed our trees!

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5500 Imhoff Drive
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