A while back, Howard Hughs posted a story about Los Angeles and inner city farming. LA, as you will read, took a giant step backwards at a critical time.
As I recall, after this fiasco, LA offered the people a farm area under some high tension wires, most likely to incinerate the people who are the audacity of preparing for Peak Oil farming.
L.A.’s “Havana Experiment” Farm Threatened by Industry and Government