ALMA Backyard Farms

We are currently installing our San Pedro urban farm.

Stay tuned for the opening of San Pedro! COVID-19 has delayed our opening, but we are already growing food!

In 2017, Alma Backyard Farms installed its largest urban farm on an old softball field on the property of a church and school. This space started as a 1/4 acre and allowed for a three-fold increase in ALMA's capacity to grow food and impact community. 

In 2019, ALMA expanded the farm to ½ acre. This site acts as Alma’s hub for its programs.  With a larger urban farm site, ALMA is now poised to grow more food and create more opportunities for formerly incarcerated people, at-risk children and youth, and food insecure families. 

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The urban farm in Compton includes 64 wood raised beds, 36 in-ground rows, 12 fruit trees, 8000 square feet of pollinator gardens, chicken coop and a children's learning garden.  The Compton site is also home to our farm stand where Alma-grown produce is made available to the community at affordable prices. 

In 2015, Alma installed an urban farm at a transitional home providing an opportunity for over 60 formerly incarcerated persons to experience re-entry as a means to “give back” and restore their personal sense of agency.  Alma Backyard Farms transformed a space known to community members as “a dope house” into a productive space that grows food and grows community.  

The urban farm in South Los Angeles includes 2000 square feet of edible landscape with 12 raised beds, 24 fruit trees, 1 chicken coop and a 1000 square foot pollinator garden. This site is no longer in operation.

In 2013, Alma installed an urban farm that provided food to 5 families of formerly incarcerated parents and their children as part of an effort to reunify them.  Today, the food grown in this farm continues to benefit all of Alma’s constituents.

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The urban farm in East Los Angeles includes 750 square feet of edible landscape with 8 raised beds, 8 fruit trees, and a 450 square foot pollinator garden.