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Urban Agriculture

Floyd Farm Community Action Plan

Urban Agriculture

Floyd Farm Community Action Plan

Satelite view of the Floyd Farm Project Area Boundary

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Background

On February 27, 2024, City Council adopted the 2040 General Plan. The Environmental Justice Element of the General Plan includes policies that focus on improving access to and awareness of healthy foods, including all policies under Goal EJ-2 Equitable access to fresh, healthy, and affordable food and wider access to healthy food resources in disadvantaged communities. Implementing Action EJ-A.11 Healthy Food Initiatives Partnership directs staff to promote healthy food access and identify partners and coordinate closely with other agencies who together would be responsible in assessing, designing, and implementing City healthy food initiatives. City staff will engage in cross-departmental and inter-agency coordination, program administration, and community relations to implement these policies and action.

The City of Sacramento is partnering with the Food Literacy Center to develop a community-driven urban farm action plan to enhance mobility and air quality programs at Food Literacy Center’s one-acre Floyd Farms. Surrounding neighborhoods include public housing at Alder Grove and Marina Vista (also known as New Helvetia and Seavey Circle), and low-income housing at Land Park Woods. In 2011, Northwest Land Park LLC planned with the Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) to use excess land at Leataata Floyd Elementary, located at 401A McClatchy Way, to establish the “Floyd Farms and Community Garden” as a result of the development of The Mill at Broadway.

In 2021, Food Literacy Center moved into this new space featuring a cooking school, kitchen, office space, and urban farm. The school district owns the student farm site property along with a recreational easement with the City of Sacramento Youth, Parks, and Community Enrichment Department (YPCE), with the potential for the farm to serve a public park function. The site is currently under-utilized by elementary school students who receive some gardening classes during the school year. The farm has capacity to accommodate additional community programs to improve access to healthy food, mobility, and air quality for residents. This grant will fund a community engagement and planning process to conduct meaningful outreach for designing ongoing programs to increase activity, provide public benefits, and realize the potential of Floyd Farms as an educational asset and public space.

Emerging partnership and learning opportunity

Sacramento Area Council of Governments (SACOG): Engage, Empower, and Implement Regional Funding Program
Engage, Empower, Implement (EEI) was a new funding program established in May 2024 by SACOG, offering $3.8 million in grants to fund partnerships between local government agencies and community-based organizations (CBO) to implement community-based planning and pre-construction project development activities in the six-county greater Sacramento region, with a specific focus on meaningful community engagement in disinvested communities.

On July 30, 2024, City Council passed a motion authorizing submittal of two grant applications to SACOG for up to $500,000 per application for the Food Literacy Center Urban Farm Community Action Plan and the North Sacramento Community Capacity Building Project. Based on this authority, the City, in collaboration with the Food Literacy Center (subrecipient), submitted a grant application to SACOG for the Food Literacy Urban Farm Community Action Plan on August 9, 2024.

On November 14, 2024, the SACOG board of directors awarded the City $498,743 in grant funding. As of November 2024, SACOG issued 11 grant awards, see the list of awardees on the SACOG website. This project is consistent with and aligns with the City’s ability to further community-led planning efforts by building and bridging community capacity.

Food Literacy Center (FLC)

Food Literacy Center’s (FLC) mission is to inspire kids to eat their vegetables. FLC teaches cooking and nutrition classes to K-6th grade students at Title 1 elementary schools in North and South Sacramento, with the goal to improve students’ knowledge, attitude, and behavior toward healthy eating. In October 2021, FLC moved into and began operating a new, 4,500-square-foot cooking school owned and built by Sacramento City Unified School District (SCUSD) at 401A McClatchy Way.

Located across the street from public housing and next to Leataata Floyd Elementary, this facility has helped FLC expand their reach beyond schools and into the community. This community was selected by the Food Literacy Center as its headquarters almost a decade ago when it began partnering with the Sacramento City Unified School District.

Photo of Floyd Farm at the Food Literacy Center, a large paved area under an awning, children and staff can be seen playing and working

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Floyd Farms at Food Literacy Center

Timeline and goal
The project timeline is March 2025 - September 2027. The project kickoff will take place following completion of an approved grant agreement with Caltrans, Food Literacy Center, and contracting a community engagement consultant.

The project team will form a community advisory committee to document the cultural differences in food preferences, host up to six pilot activities per year to be field tested on the farm, and develop the Floyd Farm Action Plan.

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Now Accepting Request for Proposal for Community Engagement Consultant
The City of Sacramento’s Community Development Department invite qualified firms to submit proposals for the development of a Food Literacy Floyd (Urban) Farm Community Action Plan for the Food Literacy Center/Leataata Floyd Elementary School and surrounding neighborhood.

This initiative is funded primarily by a Sacramento Area Council of Government’s (SACOG) Engage, Empower, and Implement grant and aims to facilitate a community-driven planning process, enhance mobility efforts, and air quality at the one-acre Floyd Farm.

Learn more about the request for proposal and apply here.

Contact
Fatima T. Malik, MPH
Associate Planner
916-808-7812
FMalik@cityofsacramento.org