Neighborhood Food Act

The Sustainable Economies Law Center partnered with the Social Justice Learning Institute, Slow Food California and Ubuntu Green to pass AB 2561, the California Neighborhood Food Act in 2014. This law is supported by many other organizations and enterprises as well.

Click here for a more detailed FAQ about your new rights under this law.

If you sign the petition below, we can keep you updated on SELC's current urban agriculture advocacy that builds on our success with the Neighborhood Food Act and furthers our right to grow and sell food in our communities.

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The California Neighborhood Food Act, signed into law in 2014, removes barriers to growing food for personal consumption. The law provides rights to grow food in certain circumstances. As a signatory to this petition, you can show your support for urban agriculture as a strategy to increase access to fresh food, promote food security for vulnerable Californians, and reduce environmental impacts of water-intensive lawns. We'll keep you updated on our other work to promote urban agriculture. Below are descriptions of the key provisions of the law:

Tenants' rights: 

The law requires that tenants of single family homes and duplexes have the right to grow produce in their backyard in portable containers as long as it does not create trip-and-fall risks or other hazards. It allows the landlord to place restrictions on the location and number of containers.

Homeowners' Association member rights: 

The law makes it illegal for a homeowners’ association contract to prohibit or unreasonably restrict the use of backyards of private (not shared) property for growing produce.

Click here for a more detailed FAQ about your new rights under this law.

 

Click here to download model Neighborhood Food Act legislation (note: this is NOT what was actually signed into law in California).


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187 SIGNATURES
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  • Nicoline Leseigneur
    signed 2014-05-19 09:49:56 -0700
  • Lisa Jervis
    signed via 2014-05-16 17:10:57 -0700
  • Chong Kee Tan
    signed 2014-05-16 14:17:42 -0700
  • Matt Grantham
    signed 2014-05-15 17:33:16 -0700
    Clearly our ability to grow our own food locally has become a mainstream movement. Please support this fundamental option for communities to rally around in response to various forms of global crisis
  • Suki Leith
    signed 2014-05-15 08:18:32 -0700
  • Harriette Jensen
    signed via 2014-05-15 08:16:47 -0700
    Properly tended, fruits and vegetable plants can be as beautiful (or more so) than any purely decorative landscaping. And, given the high rents in many of our areas, growing at least part of your food, is a way for many people to stay within their budgets and get healthful exercise at the same time.
  • Geri Miller
    signed 2014-05-14 16:06:20 -0700
  • Gerald Katz
    signed 2014-05-11 21:42:07 -0700
  • Madeleine Morley
    signed 2014-05-10 09:33:49 -0700
  • Irene Cowley
    signed 2014-05-09 12:50:15 -0700
  • Raymond Black
    signed 2014-05-09 10:35:33 -0700
  • Chris Dietz
    signed 2014-05-08 08:44:45 -0700
  • posted about this on Facebook 2014-05-04 15:02:01 -0700
    Sign the #CA Neighborhood Food Act petition! The NFA would remove legal barriers to #urban #agriculture.
  • Robert Selna
    signed 2014-05-03 10:41:20 -0700
  • Eileen Zwiers
    signed 2014-05-03 08:46:31 -0700
  • @plantingjustice tweeted link to this page. 2014-05-02 13:45:21 -0700
    Sign the #CA Neighborhood Food Act petition! The NFA would remove legal barriers to #urban #agriculture. http://www.theselc.org/neighborhood-food-act?recruiter_id=2800
  • posted about this on Facebook 2014-05-02 13:45:21 -0700
    Sign the #CA Neighborhood Food Act petition! The NFA would remove legal barriers to #urban #agriculture.
  • Gavin Raders
    signed 2014-05-02 13:44:47 -0700
  • Bruce Wright
    signed 2014-05-02 11:53:19 -0700
  • Ken Cheetham
    signed 2014-05-01 21:45:48 -0700
  • posted about this on Facebook 2014-05-01 12:30:38 -0700
    Sign the #CA Neighborhood Food Act petition! The NFA would remove legal barriers to #urban #agriculture.
  • Melina Paris
    signed 2014-05-01 09:14:38 -0700
  • Horacio Torres
    signed 2014-05-01 08:53:36 -0700
  • posted about this on Facebook 2014-05-01 07:17:50 -0700
    Sign the #CA Neighborhood Food Act petition! The NFA would remove legal barriers to #urban #agriculture.
  • Autumn Rooney
    signed 2014-05-01 07:17:09 -0700
  • michelle Wells
    signed 2014-04-30 21:45:52 -0700
  • posted about this on Facebook 2014-04-30 20:09:57 -0700
    Sign the #CA Neighborhood Food Act petition! The NFA would remove legal barriers to #urban #agriculture.
  • Dillon Benavides
    signed 2014-04-30 20:09:33 -0700
  • Carol Phillips
    signed 2014-04-30 18:08:47 -0700
    We need to be responsible for the food we are growing. We have the right to enjoy healthy, nutritious food that we grew ourselves.
  • madeline mcmurray
    signed 2014-04-30 14:19:45 -0700

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