September 6, 2025 • 34 mins
Saturday’s with Tiffany Hour 1 – Tiffany is talking about parking in Koreatown, letting nude people be nude, and vandalism at Urban Farms with Founder Sasha Kano. It’s all on KFIAM-640!
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Saturdays. It is time to one one. The week's been hot.
Time today's mom, turn on my radio just in time.
Tiffany Hobbes gott me Feel Fun Day Saturday.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
KFI and six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Saturdays with Tiffany is alive and in effect right here
from five to seven.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
I'm Tiffany Hobbes.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I appreciate you listening because it's already been a very
fun weekend around the Southland for KFI.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hosts.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Gary Hoffman and Dean Sharp were at American Vision Windows
for their grand reopening event. And if you were listening,
which I know you were, Bill Handle joined Neil Sevadra
at the Wild Fork Foods in Long Beach to celebrate
that location's one year anniversary. So while everyone is out
and about and enjoying themselves and doing all these remotes
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and meeting, you find people.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I'm here, so hit the talk back say hi, it's
a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We got Eric here, we have Eileen there.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You know, I'm surrounded by fantastic people and I'd like
to talk to you as well. So hit that talkback
feature on the iHeart app and just say hello.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Let me know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Did you go out there, did you meet Handle, did
you meet Neil, did you meet Gary, did you meet Dean?
Let me know what did you do? Because I would
have loved to have done that today as well. We
have a lot coming up on today's show. Of course,
we start off with stories we're watching, and I'll get
to that in a bit. The biggest headlines, I would say,
around not just the Southland, but around the country. We
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have a crazy story about landlords converting garages into adu's,
those accessory dwelling units. And this story takes place in
Koreatown and in Hollywood and likely will come to a
city or neighborhood near you, and it's horrible for existing tenants.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
We'll get to that shortly.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Last year, right around this time, you might remember, there
was a man who was arrested while at a nudist
resort out in Redlands. He was arrested not for things
that you would often associate for happening or with happening
at a nudist resort. No, this man was arrested for
a pair of murders, the murders of an elderly couple,
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and that nudist resort is back in the news, luckily
not for murder this time around, but instead for killing
the dreams of its residents. How'd I do with that
by saying they no longer can be nude, they have
to put on some clothes.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Around five twenty we have a pair of really interesting interviews.
The first one at five point thirty is with Sasha
Kno She's the founder of Farm Lot fifty nine, this
beautiful farm Mountain Long Beach, and she's gonna with us
about how that beautiful farm that she's given her all
to for over a decade keeps getting vandalized. I'll tell
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you by whom and what Sasha Cano and her staff
are doing to try and mitigate that. Then at six
point thirty, we're gonna talk to Steve Gunther. He's the
CEO and president of a really beautiful organization called Maryville.
Happens to be La County's oldest orphanage. They've moved away
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from using the term orphanage and now they do a
lot more, and we're gonna find out just what Maryvelle
does and what they're doing to specifically target substance abuse
and homelessness in Southern California, both issues we are very
in tune with. I'm sure of the plethora of stories
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we hear daily right here on KFI. And he's gonna
talk to us about what Maryvelle is doing to try
and help those epidemics homelessness and subsidence abuse. Then for
our deeper dive segment at six, we all want to
win that huge lotto jackpot, and I've been saying it's
up now to.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
One point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Who but what happens if you win, Sure you'll be rich,
you'll be more than rich. But there's something called the
lotto curse, and winners are saying it's very real. I'll
tell you all about that lotto curse, give you some
examples of victims of it, and we'll do that at
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six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So let's get into the stories.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We're watching some of these major headlines coming out in
the news, as you've been hearing in our KFI newsroom
and in our traffic center. The four H five is
still closed through the so Covida Pass. It's been reduced
from six lanes to three lanes. Yay, both directions between
Santa Monica, Bullard and North of sunset, and that includes
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a bunch of on and off ramps that are closed
in between as well. That's supposed to be over this
project there Monday, but if you are planning to be
on the four or five, just know it's worse than
it usually is, which is not saying too much.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Just avoid it. They're saying takes Supovida.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But because everyone's saying takes Supovia, probably find some other route.
There's another major ice raid that occurred, this time not
in southern California. No, this one takes place right outside
of Savannah, Georgia, and it targeted a Hondai factory, a
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car factory, resulting in four hundred and seventy five arrests,
most of which were Korean nationals. And Korea is sending
their diplomats handover foot to get to Georgia to try
and figure out what the heck is going on.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So we're keeping abreast of that story. And then just.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yesterday and today we're hearing that Trump's former surgeon General,
Jerome Adams is calling for RFK to be fired. There's
been a lot of news, a lot of headlines about
RFK this week, and Jerome Adams at former Surgeon General
is saying, get rid of them. We don't need them,
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we don't want them. All right, let's get into these
ad us. There's a huge situation. It's going on in Koreatown,
going on in Hollywood, and in this case, it focuses
on one apartment complex, specifically at Fifth and Kingsley in Koreatown.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And Eric, do we have time to play this audio.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Let's go to the audio and hear exactly what's going
on with these ad us.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
If you've ever taken a trip through Koreatown, you know
it is tough to find parking in this neighborhood under state.
That's why tennants at this complex at Fifth and Kingsley,
they are so frustrated. Why what's about to happen here?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Tom?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
How long have you lived here?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Anywhere between twenty five and thirty years.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
In nearly thirty years at this apartment complex, Tom Skiles
always had a parking spot, and you need it in Koreatown. Absolutely,
that spot's about to go away because his landlord is
about to turn all the parking here into eighty us.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
All of this win win is a noble idea until
you find out that basically they're taking something away from
us to make all this win win possible.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Joel Rothstein works for the landlord Norfolk Property Management. He
said this will create more affordable housing. He provided paperwork
showing the city signed off on this construction and set
a new state law passed by the legislature and signed
by the governor last year also gave them the green light.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Ah terrible, awful, awful offul And again they're citing Koreatown,
but this is expanding all across the Southland, first starting
there in Koreatown, moving into Hollywood, and is coming to
a densely populated, densely packed area near you. Parking is
at a premium. They're getting rid of parking to create
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these accessory dwelling units. These eighty US and of course
landlords are saying, well, we'll lower the rent, as if
that's some sort of relled significant sort of consolation. And
people are saying this is horrible. It's going to uproot
our lives. It's already a terrible situation and it's just
being made worse by the greed of these landlords. When
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we come back, I'm going to tell you what's going
on at this newdist resort out in Redlands. If you
want to be a newdist you might want to find
another place. That's all I'll say. And we'll also get
into a restaurant, a really popular restaurant that's potentially closing
if we can't help it. And I'll tell you how
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we can help that restaurant. On the other side of
the break, it's KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on
the Eye Heart Radio app Tiffany Hobbs here till seven.
Tiffany Hobbs Here at Saturdays with Tiffany as always from
five until seven. Let's get into this really unfortunate news.
If you are a fan of the nudist colony, if
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you are a fan of being unclothed and around other people,
not really you know. The thing about nudist colonies, nudist beaches,
and this is a common I think understanding is that
if you're going looking for a certain type of aesthetic,
that's not what's there. It's always the opposite of what
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it is that you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
No shame, do your thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
In this case, this Newdiest resort is an actual resort
where people live year round, is under the gun and
not because of its sorted past. This is the same
nudist resort. It's called Olive Dale Ranch in Colton, where
about a year ago, a man by the name of
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Michael Royce Sparks was arrested and charged with the murder
of husband and wife, Daniel and Stephanie Maynard, after they'd
gone missing. The husband and wife and were found under
Michael Sparks's kind of porch area in a bunker he
had built below ground. They found this couple's remains and
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were able to tie everything back to this Michael Royce
Sparks as the murderer. This was a year ago, so
this nudist resort has already been in the news and
does have this sort It passed and you know the issues,
the negativity seems to follow. Sadly, this property in the
news and in this case, not murder but the killing
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of the of the resident's intent on being nude. Let's
find out what's going on at Olive Ranch in Colton
and why residents say they are mad.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
As ever, fifty current and former residents of a so
cal nudist resort are assuing the new owners for trying
to make them put on their clothes.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
The lawsuit also claims.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
They aren't maintaining the property and trying to force them out.
Many tenants said the Olive Dell Ranch in Colton are elderly, disabled,
veterans and others have nowhere else to go.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Now, the tenants are fighting back to keep their homes.
Casey Montoya has the story all talked in the foothills
of the San Jacento Mountains, The all of Del Ranch
has been a top destination for naturists since nineteen fifty two.
The Colton property was once known as the friendliest newdist
resort in southern California.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
We're just trying to survive.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
We're in survival motor this fort ready. Nancy Roder has
lived at the ol of Del Ranch for over a
decade and says when new owners bought the place recently,
everything started to change.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
So all of a sudden, one day we get a
notice in our mailbox that says you're not gonna be
naked anymore.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Penny Palmer has lived at all of Dill Reach for
twelve years. She's one of many who say the new
owners are making drastic changes to force longtime tenants to
move out.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And the first thing they did was come in a
very threatening fashion. They illegally raised our rents, they attacked
our lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
New management change to the website and signs attempting to
rebrand all of Dell as an RV park and resort,
not a nudist camp.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
How can you threaten nude people?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
How can you how that just seems almost logistically, it
seems really really wrong. These people are at their most
vulnerable state, and you come in and you're giving these
people a hard time, and not that way, in the
actual way of raising their rent, inflating their utility bills,
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threatening them with eviction, removing electric meters from their home,
which then left behind live wires and power that was off.
There's a former office employee, Sunshine Lric, who says that
she was fired after questioning the management's practices. She says
that management quote wanted me to charge extra money on
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people's bills and I refused end quote that Sunshine Loric,
who said that she went against what was being asked
of her illegally, and then she was fired. And these
poor people there, elderly, as they said, veterans, disabled, nude,
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Probably not the crowd you'd expect, but the crowd you're
getting all nude and have been living there harmoniously outside
of the murder last year, have been living there harmoniously,
outside of these allegations of all of this, all of
them being pushed out and threatened in an effort to
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likely change this entire resort into a different community that
is clothed and also paying more than what.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
These people pay.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
These people are on a much decreased income, or rather
paying a lot less than what new tenants would be
coming in to pay.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And they're up against a huge fight.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
These tenants they're saying that, you know, they're they're trying
to do what they can. They're trying to rally people together,
you know, get their lawyers in order. But when you're
going up against a major corporation like the Olive Dell
Ranch and it's management, it could play out in a
way that sees these people being displaced.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
There are other newdest ranches or colonies around southern California
or in that area out there, you know, in the
in the in the ie who could receive them, not
that way, but receive them. I don't know if that's
the case, but I'm hoping that if these people are
in fact displaced, that they will be able to land
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on their naked feet moving along quickly. There's a really
popular restaurant. This is just kind of an all call
to those of you who love soul food and would
be really really remiss to see a popular restaurant go
the way of so many other businesses in southern California.
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This one is called Doulands. It's located on Crenshaw and
the Crenshaw Corridor right there around fifty second Street and Crenshaw,
just on the other side of the KA line which
runs down the middle now on Crenshaw in that Crenshaw Corridor. Well,
the issue with Doulans on Crenshaw, this beautiful soul food
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restaurant that opened in nineteen ninety two at years before
Greg duland the owner's father, actually opened another Dulans which
is located in Inglewood. This location has been a fixture
in the community and people come far and wide to
support great food. And I say that confidently that you'll
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enjoy it as well.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
They went through some renovations a couple of years ago.
Start at these renovations and they are in over their
head according to Greg Doolan, the owner, and he says
the business has been doing well. The restaurant has been
doing well, but the money, the real estate portion what
is now owed because of the renovations and extra space
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that was acquired in hopes of providing a parking lot.
That these things have them majorly in the hole. And
they were issued a foreclosure notice that was supposed to
actually go into effect two day but as of yesterday,
Great Doolan, the owner said he's going to stay there.
He doesn't plan to leave. He's not given up without
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a fight. So go to Dulan's on Crenshaw, enjoy it.
Let me know if you've ever visited. You can hit
that talkback feature on the app, you know, but get
there because should something not go the way Greg Dulan,
the owner, once, you might not have that restaurant there
for you to visit.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
So get to Dulan's.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's on Crenshaw and about fifty second Street, and help
support this business that's been in the community for a
very long time. When we come back at five thirty,
we're going to have a conversation with Sasha Cano. She's
the founder of farm Lot fifty nine in Long Beach,
and she's going to talk with us about the repeated
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vandalism that's happened to her property, which unfortunately has been
the target of homeless individuals who live or frequent the
park that the farm sits within. Sasha Cano will tell
us what's going on and hopefully how we all can
help on the other side of the break kay if
I am six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
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Tiffany Hobbs here, It's Saturdays with Tiffany and our next
guest has been doing amazing work in the community of
Long Beach for about fifteen years. At least since twenty ten,
Sasha Cano has been farming and running the nonprofit Farm
Lot fifty nine, which is a half acre.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Farm in Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
If you've eaten at some of the best restaurants in
southern California, there's a good chance you've probably had something
grown by Farm Lot fifty nine. But we're not just
here to talk about produce. We're also here to talk
about something unfortunate that's happening at the farm. Unfortunately, it
is an example of not being able to have nice things.
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And you have something nice, there's always someone or someone's
trying to tear it down. So we're gonna get into
what's going on on farm Lot fifty nine after we
ask Sasha to tell us a bit more about the
entire program. Sasha, welcome to KFI.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Thank you so much for agreeing to come on to
shed light about what you do and unfortunately what is
challenging what you do and it is really troubling to
hear what's been going on there on the farm. But
before we get into the bad, tell us a bit
more about farm Lot fifty nine and its presence in
Long Beach.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Yeah, we have a half acre farm. We are located
in central Long Beach. We have a lease with the
City of Long Beach through Park and rec and we've
been farming on our half acre for, like you said,
about fifteen years. We grow cut flowers and we have
a little flower shop on site. You can come and
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you pick flowers in the summer. We have dinners and
parties and all of that supports our farm to food
bank program. So we do grow produce and that goes
to local distribution partners and people that need it the
most and really should have organic produce.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
What are some of the restaurant partners that farm Lot
fifty nine serves.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
You know, after COVID, a lot of our partners didn't
really come back. We do still work with some of
our chefs who we adore and love consa coachina on Broadway.
We do a lot of fundraising events with them. We're
popping up over there for their Hatch Chili beests and
we actually have a fundraiser coming up in September over
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at their restaurant. But yeah, not so much restaurant work anymore.
Mostly it all goes to local food banks. The need
is out of control for our produce, for people who
just can't afford it, who can't get it, so we
distributed it to local people here in South Bay that
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need it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, God bless you guys. You're doing amazing work. And
like I said in the introduction, when people do amazing work,
there's for some reason, always some negative that wants to
challenge that, and Farm Lot fifty nine has had no
shortage of negativity in recent months. I would say, can
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you tell us a bit about what's going on, why
you're being targeted as if there's a legitimate reason for that.
And by the way, may I preface that your farm
is private and to be invited to the farm, you
have to have business there. So how are these people
gaining access to be able to harm farm?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Lot fifty nine. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (21:35):
It's been tumultuous pretty much the whole existence. You know,
whenever you're in an urban environment, you're exposed to all
sorts of things. And our property is located within a
larger Willow Springs sculpture area, and it's kind of like
an abandoned park. It's not really a park. It's not
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really accessible because there's gates all around. So when people
get in to the forty acres that surround us, they
tend to make encampments and bunkers and kind of hunker down.
And we are one of the only two tenants on
the property. The other is the City of Long Beach.
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Their green team uses the neighboring parcel as their base camp,
and they've had it too. They get batteries stolen out
of their trucks and all kinds of stuff all the
time too. And when we're at work, it's open space
with a fence around it, and so you can see
when we leave for the day and there's nothing I
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can do about it. I don't live there, I have
a home and a family and kid in high school,
and I have other things that have to do, and
so I think a lot of it is when the
homeless services and things like that come onto the larger
property post notices maybe they're going to be relocated or
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shakedown or whatever, and then the retaliation happens because we're
the only ones there and the assumption is that.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You did this to do with us, yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Which it's not, but it's been. The latest vandalism was
graffiti all the signage, and they burned down some compostments
that our youth program has made, burn the fence down,
and you know, it's not just the fire, it is
the damage from and I'm grateful for the fire department,
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don't get me wrong, but their footprint is aggressive, and
so you know, then fences get broken and things get
flooded and trampled, yeah, trampled, and the trees caught fire,
and it's just ridiculous. We're a small nonprofit and to
come up with you know, five grand a fixed a
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fence or something, it's a big hit.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So you know, that was my next question, who's responsible
for this? And you're saying that you and farm Lot
fifty nine have to foot the bill for this vandalism.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
So not only is it the structural damages, but the
hand painted signage that we had commissioned, and tons of
graffiti and just you know, silly act of vandalism happened
pretty regularly with leaving the hose on or our little
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flower shop at the top of the street when you
pull in off the California. We have a little garage
up there that's open on the weekends and sells the flowers,
and so during the week it's a pretty exciting spot
for somebody to make an encampment or put up a
hammock or try and you know, it just constantly. You
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never really know what you're going to get when you
go to work every morning.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Oh this sounds awful, And I have questions about city leadership.
What's happening with the response from your city leadership. I
know you have Mayor Rex richardson there, you have your
local city representatives, and I want to talk about what
they're doing to help mitigate this intrusive, invasive and horrific
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vandalism that you don't deserve, but that keeps repeating. Can
I keep you on for one more segment. Of course,
thank you wonderful. We're talking with Sasha Cano. She is
the founder of the beautiful nonprofit farm Lot fifty nine,
a half acre farm in Long Beach that serves the
community and all of the South Bay and unfortunately they've
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been the victim of a lot of vandalism because of
encampments that surround their beautiful farm. And will continue the
conversation on the other side of the break. I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio at Tiffany Hobbs
here at Saturdays with Tiffany Saturdays.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
With Tiffany, and we're talking with Sasha Cano.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh, the founder of the nonprofit farm Lot fifty nine,
this lovely farm in Long Beach that produces all sorts
of great things to eat and flowers and is a
central part of the community and has been for fifteen
years now, and in recent months and years, if not
for the entirety of their place in Long Beach, they
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have been victim to vandalism at the hands of the
homeless community that passes through the Willows Springs Park area.
So we're talking with Sasha about what's going on in Sasha,
You've done a great job of detailing the vandalism what
it looks like. I think all of our listeners can
certainly empathize with you because the feeling is there in
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your words. You have city leadership that should respond to
something like this. You have Mayor Rex Richardson, you have
city council representative Megan Kerr.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
What are they doing.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
To support you all there at farm Lot fifty nine.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
That's a great question.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
The short answer is not much. The long answer is
that when you are in your place hold for such
a long time, people around you change. So before it
was Rex, so with Garcia, before it was Garcia, you know,
and Meghan Kerr is now we're District five. We were
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District seven for a long time, and she's my fourth
or fifth council person at least from Park and Rec.
And he just put in his notice to resign or retire.
So I've seen probably five or six Park and Rec directors.
So there's not a lot of buy in from the
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city into our parcel. They love to use it as
a marketing opportunity, but as far as support, you know,
with PV it's kind of the same way we are
West Division and it has to be crime and process.
So unless I want to be attached to my phone
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twenty four to seven watching every game cam notifications of
a raccoon and the little.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Bird and drive you crazy. I do the same thing.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
It would drive me crazy. So it's tricky. And then
the gate on California Avenue is locked, so even if
there was a call for PD, they would probably just
drive by. So it's unfortunately kind of a dead zone.
So not a lot of support. And even when things
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like this happen and the word does spread, not only
through our pledge campaign or through our website and our newsletter,
I never heard anything from any of those people. The
only person that ever reached out to me and our
whole tenure being here was Robert Garcia. When we had
a leaf snafu many many years ago and did not
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get a renewal. He personally called me and helped me
work it out when Pat West was city manager. But
other than that, they're.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Just dropping the balls there.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
I'll stay over here, just uninterested.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Why do you think that is, especially when there's all
of this promotion of widening green spaces in southern California.
You know we're a health a health conscious area of
the country, And why do you think your farm continues
to be overlooked when it comes to protect it by protection, I.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Think that it's an easy project to just kind of go, well,
Sasha's handling it. She's always figured it out this far,
and she has her own community and network, and she's
fine on her own, and they don't seem to want
to share their discretionary funds for enhand security. There was
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a historic train depot that was moved there in twenty sixteen,
boarded up and burned down, and it's been a gaping
hole in the ground with a broken chain link bent
around it ever since. It's just nothing. There's nothing there.
There's active oil and a dirt parking lot. So what
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is the benefit for them to have this? I have
a really low lease. I pay a percentage of our
income to be there, but overall not breaking the budget
for them or contributing in any kind of financial way.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
So well, you know, kind of whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
They might overlook you, and that is just a reflection,
sadly of their interests. But you do service a wide community.
You have so many supporters and have had so many
supporters throughout this entire time of having the farm, and
you have a major fundraising event coming up. Tell us
(30:59):
a about that fundraising event, what the proceeds will go to.
I imagine upkeep and having to respond to vandalism is.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
A part of that.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But tell us how this fundraising event is going to
support farm Lot fifty nine and what we can do
as well.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
Yeah, we have a fundraising event. We have two big
fundraisers every year. We have a big party June next
twenty twenty six will be in June six where we
have live music and we roast a whole hug and
our chefs come and it's super fun. I do that
one once a year. And then we are a participant
in Long Beach Gibbs, which are is our city wide
(31:38):
giving campaign. And our in person event is coming up
in September at Ponsa, my girlfriend's restaurant. It's an amazing
restaurant on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And that September seventeenth, right, yes.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
And we'll have music and food and all kinds of
fun raffle things and silent auction, and all the proceeds
do go to help support the farm. All of my
team is women, one women in agriculture. Go girls, and
I know the only ones that are out there half
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in mint in the seat.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Oh my gosh, that's the usual, Sasha, that's the norm.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Yes, and they're all amazing. So we keep them employed
year round. It's not a seasonal job. It's the lifetime job.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Fantastic team that I have.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
Yeah, we've got young moms, We've got all kinds of stuff,
so keeping them working all winter and just keeping the
farm going, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
So that fundraising event is Wednesday, September seventeenth, It's called
Long Beach Gives And how can people find out more
information about Farm Lot fifty nine, the fundraiser and everything.
You guys are working on social media website, give us
everything you got.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Yeah, we're everywhere at Farm Lot fifty nine. It's farm
lat fifty nine, dot org and Instagram. Mostly for our
socials newsletter we do weekly. I write sub stack articles
that give a little bit more of the inside of
what's happening on the farm. Yeah, it's great. We invite
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you to come for event and workshops, and our big
event is coming up to Sundraiser and then our in
person party next June. But in the spring we have
floral design classes and Mother's Day brunches and you want
to be connected with local Agricultures and check us out.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And do not just show up unannounced. That was a
big thing on the website. Don't just go without having
business there. You have to make an appointment. Do I
have that right?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (33:42):
Come during shop hours. The farm stand is open Thursday
through Sunday nine to one, so you can go to
the shop and buy your flowers up there and then
on the farm.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
We are working.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
So it is a closed environment unless you are part
of something that's already going.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
On awesome, and you want to be a part of
something that's going on there at farm Lot fifty nine.
If you want to read more about the vandalism aspect,
you can head over to Long Beachpost dot com and
just enter into the search bar farm Lot fifty nine
and the article should pop up.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Or Google it.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
But it's definitely worth taking a read, and it's more
than worth supporting such a worthy organization that's doing incredible work. Sasha,
thank you so much for coming on Saturdays with Tiffany
and we wish you all the best.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
My pleasure. It was so nice chatting with you. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
You're most welcome to Saturdays with Tiffany. Tiffany hobbs here
kf I am six forty Live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app,
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Time today's mom, turn on my radio just in time.
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
KFI and six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
Saturdays with Tiffany is alive and in effect right here
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Speaker 3 (00:27):
I'm Tiffany Hobbes.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I appreciate you listening because it's already been a very
fun weekend around the Southland for KFI.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Hosts.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Gary Hoffman and Dean Sharp were at American Vision Windows
for their grand reopening event. And if you were listening,
which I know you were, Bill Handle joined Neil Sevadra
at the Wild Fork Foods in Long Beach to celebrate
that location's one year anniversary. So while everyone is out
and about and enjoying themselves and doing all these remotes
(00:59):
and meeting, you find people.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm here.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I'm here, so hit the talk back say hi, it's
a little lonely.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
We got Eric here, we have Eileen there.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
You know, I'm surrounded by fantastic people and I'd like
to talk to you as well. So hit that talkback
feature on the iHeart app and just say hello.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Let me know what's going on.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
Did you go out there, did you meet Handle, did
you meet Neil, did you meet Gary, did you meet Dean?
Let me know what did you do? Because I would
have loved to have done that today as well. We
have a lot coming up on today's show. Of course,
we start off with stories we're watching, and I'll get
to that in a bit. The biggest headlines, I would say,
around not just the Southland, but around the country. We
(01:43):
have a crazy story about landlords converting garages into adu's,
those accessory dwelling units. And this story takes place in
Koreatown and in Hollywood and likely will come to a
city or neighborhood near you, and it's horrible for existing tenants.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
We'll get to that shortly.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
Last year, right around this time, you might remember, there
was a man who was arrested while at a nudist
resort out in Redlands. He was arrested not for things
that you would often associate for happening or with happening
at a nudist resort. No, this man was arrested for
a pair of murders, the murders of an elderly couple,
(02:29):
and that nudist resort is back in the news, luckily
not for murder this time around, but instead for killing
the dreams of its residents. How'd I do with that
by saying they no longer can be nude, they have
to put on some clothes.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
We'll get to that.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Around five twenty we have a pair of really interesting interviews.
The first one at five point thirty is with Sasha
Kno She's the founder of Farm Lot fifty nine, this
beautiful farm Mountain Long Beach, and she's gonna with us
about how that beautiful farm that she's given her all
to for over a decade keeps getting vandalized. I'll tell
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you by whom and what Sasha Cano and her staff
are doing to try and mitigate that. Then at six
point thirty, we're gonna talk to Steve Gunther. He's the
CEO and president of a really beautiful organization called Maryville.
Happens to be La County's oldest orphanage. They've moved away
(03:29):
from using the term orphanage and now they do a
lot more, and we're gonna find out just what Maryvelle
does and what they're doing to specifically target substance abuse
and homelessness in Southern California, both issues we are very
in tune with. I'm sure of the plethora of stories
(03:50):
we hear daily right here on KFI. And he's gonna
talk to us about what Maryvelle is doing to try
and help those epidemics homelessness and subsidence abuse. Then for
our deeper dive segment at six, we all want to
win that huge lotto jackpot, and I've been saying it's
up now to.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
One point eight billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Who but what happens if you win, Sure you'll be rich,
you'll be more than rich. But there's something called the
lotto curse, and winners are saying it's very real. I'll
tell you all about that lotto curse, give you some
examples of victims of it, and we'll do that at
(04:37):
six o'clock.
Speaker 3 (04:38):
So let's get into the stories.
Speaker 2 (04:40):
We're watching some of these major headlines coming out in
the news, as you've been hearing in our KFI newsroom
and in our traffic center. The four H five is
still closed through the so Covida Pass. It's been reduced
from six lanes to three lanes. Yay, both directions between
Santa Monica, Bullard and North of sunset, and that includes
(05:03):
a bunch of on and off ramps that are closed
in between as well. That's supposed to be over this
project there Monday, but if you are planning to be
on the four or five, just know it's worse than
it usually is, which is not saying too much.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Just avoid it. They're saying takes Supovida.
Speaker 2 (05:23):
But because everyone's saying takes Supovia, probably find some other route.
There's another major ice raid that occurred, this time not
in southern California. No, this one takes place right outside
of Savannah, Georgia, and it targeted a Hondai factory, a
(05:43):
car factory, resulting in four hundred and seventy five arrests,
most of which were Korean nationals. And Korea is sending
their diplomats handover foot to get to Georgia to try
and figure out what the heck is going on.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
So we're keeping abreast of that story. And then just.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Yesterday and today we're hearing that Trump's former surgeon General,
Jerome Adams is calling for RFK to be fired. There's
been a lot of news, a lot of headlines about
RFK this week, and Jerome Adams at former Surgeon General
is saying, get rid of them. We don't need them,
(06:22):
we don't want them. All right, let's get into these
ad us. There's a huge situation. It's going on in Koreatown,
going on in Hollywood, and in this case, it focuses
on one apartment complex, specifically at Fifth and Kingsley in Koreatown.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
And Eric, do we have time to play this audio.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
Let's go to the audio and hear exactly what's going
on with these ad us.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
If you've ever taken a trip through Koreatown, you know
it is tough to find parking in this neighborhood under state.
That's why tennants at this complex at Fifth and Kingsley,
they are so frustrated. Why what's about to happen here?
Speaker 5 (07:02):
Tom?
Speaker 4 (07:02):
How long have you lived here?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
Anywhere between twenty five and thirty years.
Speaker 6 (07:06):
In nearly thirty years at this apartment complex, Tom Skiles
always had a parking spot, and you need it in Koreatown. Absolutely,
that spot's about to go away because his landlord is
about to turn all the parking here into eighty us.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
All of this win win is a noble idea until
you find out that basically they're taking something away from
us to make all this win win possible.
Speaker 6 (07:31):
Joel Rothstein works for the landlord Norfolk Property Management. He
said this will create more affordable housing. He provided paperwork
showing the city signed off on this construction and set
a new state law passed by the legislature and signed
by the governor last year also gave them the green light.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Ah terrible, awful, awful offul And again they're citing Koreatown,
but this is expanding all across the Southland, first starting
there in Koreatown, moving into Hollywood, and is coming to
a densely populated, densely packed area near you. Parking is
at a premium. They're getting rid of parking to create
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these accessory dwelling units. These eighty US and of course
landlords are saying, well, we'll lower the rent, as if
that's some sort of relled significant sort of consolation. And
people are saying this is horrible. It's going to uproot
our lives. It's already a terrible situation and it's just
being made worse by the greed of these landlords. When
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we come back, I'm going to tell you what's going
on at this newdist resort out in Redlands. If you
want to be a newdist you might want to find
another place. That's all I'll say. And we'll also get
into a restaurant, a really popular restaurant that's potentially closing
if we can't help it. And I'll tell you how
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we can help that restaurant. On the other side of
the break, it's KFI AM six forty Live Everywhere on
the Eye Heart Radio app Tiffany Hobbs here till seven.
Tiffany Hobbs Here at Saturdays with Tiffany as always from
five until seven. Let's get into this really unfortunate news.
If you are a fan of the nudist colony, if
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you are a fan of being unclothed and around other people,
not really you know. The thing about nudist colonies, nudist beaches,
and this is a common I think understanding is that
if you're going looking for a certain type of aesthetic,
that's not what's there. It's always the opposite of what
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it is that you're looking for.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
No shame, do your thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:48):
In this case, this Newdiest resort is an actual resort
where people live year round, is under the gun and
not because of its sorted past. This is the same
nudist resort. It's called Olive Dale Ranch in Colton, where
about a year ago, a man by the name of
(10:09):
Michael Royce Sparks was arrested and charged with the murder
of husband and wife, Daniel and Stephanie Maynard, after they'd
gone missing. The husband and wife and were found under
Michael Sparks's kind of porch area in a bunker he
had built below ground. They found this couple's remains and
(10:31):
were able to tie everything back to this Michael Royce
Sparks as the murderer. This was a year ago, so
this nudist resort has already been in the news and
does have this sort It passed and you know the issues,
the negativity seems to follow. Sadly, this property in the
news and in this case, not murder but the killing
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of the of the resident's intent on being nude. Let's
find out what's going on at Olive Ranch in Colton
and why residents say they are mad.
Speaker 7 (11:05):
As ever, fifty current and former residents of a so
cal nudist resort are assuing the new owners for trying
to make them put on their clothes.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
The lawsuit also claims.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
They aren't maintaining the property and trying to force them out.
Many tenants said the Olive Dell Ranch in Colton are elderly, disabled,
veterans and others have nowhere else to go.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Now, the tenants are fighting back to keep their homes.
Casey Montoya has the story all talked in the foothills
of the San Jacento Mountains, The all of Del Ranch
has been a top destination for naturists since nineteen fifty two.
The Colton property was once known as the friendliest newdist
resort in southern California.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
We're just trying to survive.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
We're in survival motor this fort ready. Nancy Roder has
lived at the ol of Del Ranch for over a
decade and says when new owners bought the place recently,
everything started to change.
Speaker 6 (11:58):
So all of a sudden, one day we get a
notice in our mailbox that says you're not gonna be
naked anymore.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Penny Palmer has lived at all of Dill Reach for
twelve years. She's one of many who say the new
owners are making drastic changes to force longtime tenants to
move out.
Speaker 2 (12:14):
And the first thing they did was come in a
very threatening fashion. They illegally raised our rents, they attacked
our lifestyle.
Speaker 5 (12:22):
New management change to the website and signs attempting to
rebrand all of Dell as an RV park and resort,
not a nudist camp.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
How can you threaten nude people?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
How can you how that just seems almost logistically, it
seems really really wrong. These people are at their most
vulnerable state, and you come in and you're giving these
people a hard time, and not that way, in the
actual way of raising their rent, inflating their utility bills,
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threatening them with eviction, removing electric meters from their home,
which then left behind live wires and power that was off.
There's a former office employee, Sunshine Lric, who says that
she was fired after questioning the management's practices. She says
that management quote wanted me to charge extra money on
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people's bills and I refused end quote that Sunshine Loric,
who said that she went against what was being asked
of her illegally, and then she was fired. And these
poor people there, elderly, as they said, veterans, disabled, nude,
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Probably not the crowd you'd expect, but the crowd you're
getting all nude and have been living there harmoniously outside
of the murder last year, have been living there harmoniously,
outside of these allegations of all of this, all of
them being pushed out and threatened in an effort to
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likely change this entire resort into a different community that
is clothed and also paying more than what.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
These people pay.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
These people are on a much decreased income, or rather
paying a lot less than what new tenants would be
coming in to pay.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
And they're up against a huge fight.
Speaker 2 (14:20):
These tenants they're saying that, you know, they're they're trying
to do what they can. They're trying to rally people together,
you know, get their lawyers in order. But when you're
going up against a major corporation like the Olive Dell
Ranch and it's management, it could play out in a
way that sees these people being displaced.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
And I don't know if.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
There are other newdest ranches or colonies around southern California
or in that area out there, you know, in the
in the in the ie who could receive them, not
that way, but receive them. I don't know if that's
the case, but I'm hoping that if these people are
in fact displaced, that they will be able to land
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on their naked feet moving along quickly. There's a really
popular restaurant. This is just kind of an all call
to those of you who love soul food and would
be really really remiss to see a popular restaurant go
the way of so many other businesses in southern California.
(15:26):
This one is called Doulands. It's located on Crenshaw and
the Crenshaw Corridor right there around fifty second Street and Crenshaw,
just on the other side of the KA line which
runs down the middle now on Crenshaw in that Crenshaw Corridor. Well,
the issue with Doulans on Crenshaw, this beautiful soul food
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restaurant that opened in nineteen ninety two at years before
Greg duland the owner's father, actually opened another Dulans which
is located in Inglewood. This location has been a fixture
in the community and people come far and wide to
support great food. And I say that confidently that you'll
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enjoy it as well.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Well.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
They went through some renovations a couple of years ago.
Start at these renovations and they are in over their
head according to Greg Doolan, the owner, and he says
the business has been doing well. The restaurant has been
doing well, but the money, the real estate portion what
is now owed because of the renovations and extra space
(16:30):
that was acquired in hopes of providing a parking lot.
That these things have them majorly in the hole. And
they were issued a foreclosure notice that was supposed to
actually go into effect two day but as of yesterday,
Great Doolan, the owner said he's going to stay there.
He doesn't plan to leave. He's not given up without
(16:51):
a fight. So go to Dulan's on Crenshaw, enjoy it.
Let me know if you've ever visited. You can hit
that talkback feature on the app, you know, but get
there because should something not go the way Greg Dulan,
the owner, once, you might not have that restaurant there
for you to visit.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
So get to Dulan's.
Speaker 2 (17:12):
It's on Crenshaw and about fifty second Street, and help
support this business that's been in the community for a
very long time. When we come back at five thirty,
we're going to have a conversation with Sasha Cano. She's
the founder of farm Lot fifty nine in Long Beach,
and she's going to talk with us about the repeated
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vandalism that's happened to her property, which unfortunately has been
the target of homeless individuals who live or frequent the
park that the farm sits within. Sasha Cano will tell
us what's going on and hopefully how we all can
help on the other side of the break kay if
I am six forty Live Everywhere on the iHeartRadio app.
(17:56):
Tiffany Hobbs here, It's Saturdays with Tiffany and our next
guest has been doing amazing work in the community of
Long Beach for about fifteen years. At least since twenty ten,
Sasha Cano has been farming and running the nonprofit Farm
Lot fifty nine, which is a half acre.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Farm in Long Beach.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
If you've eaten at some of the best restaurants in
southern California, there's a good chance you've probably had something
grown by Farm Lot fifty nine. But we're not just
here to talk about produce. We're also here to talk
about something unfortunate that's happening at the farm. Unfortunately, it
is an example of not being able to have nice things.
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And you have something nice, there's always someone or someone's
trying to tear it down. So we're gonna get into
what's going on on farm Lot fifty nine after we
ask Sasha to tell us a bit more about the
entire program. Sasha, welcome to KFI.
Speaker 8 (18:58):
Hi, thank you for having me.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
Thank you so much for agreeing to come on to
shed light about what you do and unfortunately what is
challenging what you do and it is really troubling to
hear what's been going on there on the farm. But
before we get into the bad, tell us a bit
more about farm Lot fifty nine and its presence in
Long Beach.
Speaker 8 (19:21):
Yeah, we have a half acre farm. We are located
in central Long Beach. We have a lease with the
City of Long Beach through Park and rec and we've
been farming on our half acre for, like you said,
about fifteen years. We grow cut flowers and we have
a little flower shop on site. You can come and
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you pick flowers in the summer. We have dinners and
parties and all of that supports our farm to food
bank program. So we do grow produce and that goes
to local distribution partners and people that need it the
most and really should have organic produce.
Speaker 2 (20:01):
What are some of the restaurant partners that farm Lot
fifty nine serves.
Speaker 8 (20:06):
You know, after COVID, a lot of our partners didn't
really come back. We do still work with some of
our chefs who we adore and love consa coachina on Broadway.
We do a lot of fundraising events with them. We're
popping up over there for their Hatch Chili beests and
we actually have a fundraiser coming up in September over
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at their restaurant. But yeah, not so much restaurant work anymore.
Mostly it all goes to local food banks. The need
is out of control for our produce, for people who
just can't afford it, who can't get it, so we
distributed it to local people here in South Bay that
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need it.
Speaker 2 (20:50):
Well, God bless you guys. You're doing amazing work. And
like I said in the introduction, when people do amazing work,
there's for some reason, always some negative that wants to
challenge that, and Farm Lot fifty nine has had no
shortage of negativity in recent months. I would say, can
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you tell us a bit about what's going on, why
you're being targeted as if there's a legitimate reason for that.
And by the way, may I preface that your farm
is private and to be invited to the farm, you
have to have business there. So how are these people
gaining access to be able to harm farm?
Speaker 3 (21:32):
Lot fifty nine. What's going on?
Speaker 8 (21:35):
It's been tumultuous pretty much the whole existence. You know,
whenever you're in an urban environment, you're exposed to all
sorts of things. And our property is located within a
larger Willow Springs sculpture area, and it's kind of like
an abandoned park. It's not really a park. It's not
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really accessible because there's gates all around. So when people
get in to the forty acres that surround us, they
tend to make encampments and bunkers and kind of hunker down.
And we are one of the only two tenants on
the property. The other is the City of Long Beach.
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Their green team uses the neighboring parcel as their base camp,
and they've had it too. They get batteries stolen out
of their trucks and all kinds of stuff all the
time too. And when we're at work, it's open space
with a fence around it, and so you can see
when we leave for the day and there's nothing I
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can do about it. I don't live there, I have
a home and a family and kid in high school,
and I have other things that have to do, and
so I think a lot of it is when the
homeless services and things like that come onto the larger
property post notices maybe they're going to be relocated or
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shakedown or whatever, and then the retaliation happens because we're
the only ones there and the assumption is that.
Speaker 3 (23:13):
You did this to do with us, yeah.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
Which it's not, but it's been. The latest vandalism was
graffiti all the signage, and they burned down some compostments
that our youth program has made, burn the fence down,
and you know, it's not just the fire, it is
the damage from and I'm grateful for the fire department,
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don't get me wrong, but their footprint is aggressive, and
so you know, then fences get broken and things get
flooded and trampled, yeah, trampled, and the trees caught fire,
and it's just ridiculous. We're a small nonprofit and to
come up with you know, five grand a fixed a
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fence or something, it's a big hit.
Speaker 2 (24:01):
So you know, that was my next question, who's responsible
for this? And you're saying that you and farm Lot
fifty nine have to foot the bill for this vandalism.
Speaker 8 (24:11):
Of course.
Speaker 5 (24:12):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (24:12):
So not only is it the structural damages, but the
hand painted signage that we had commissioned, and tons of
graffiti and just you know, silly act of vandalism happened
pretty regularly with leaving the hose on or our little
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flower shop at the top of the street when you
pull in off the California. We have a little garage
up there that's open on the weekends and sells the flowers,
and so during the week it's a pretty exciting spot
for somebody to make an encampment or put up a
hammock or try and you know, it just constantly. You
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never really know what you're going to get when you
go to work every morning.
Speaker 2 (24:59):
Oh this sounds awful, And I have questions about city leadership.
What's happening with the response from your city leadership. I
know you have Mayor Rex richardson there, you have your
local city representatives, and I want to talk about what
they're doing to help mitigate this intrusive, invasive and horrific
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vandalism that you don't deserve, but that keeps repeating. Can
I keep you on for one more segment. Of course,
thank you wonderful. We're talking with Sasha Cano. She is
the founder of the beautiful nonprofit farm Lot fifty nine,
a half acre farm in Long Beach that serves the
community and all of the South Bay and unfortunately they've
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been the victim of a lot of vandalism because of
encampments that surround their beautiful farm. And will continue the
conversation on the other side of the break. I am
six forty live everywhere on the iHeartRadio at Tiffany Hobbs
here at Saturdays with Tiffany Saturdays.
Speaker 3 (25:57):
With Tiffany, and we're talking with Sasha Cano.
Speaker 2 (26:00):
Oh, the founder of the nonprofit farm Lot fifty nine,
this lovely farm in Long Beach that produces all sorts
of great things to eat and flowers and is a
central part of the community and has been for fifteen
years now, and in recent months and years, if not
for the entirety of their place in Long Beach, they
(26:21):
have been victim to vandalism at the hands of the
homeless community that passes through the Willows Springs Park area.
So we're talking with Sasha about what's going on in Sasha,
You've done a great job of detailing the vandalism what
it looks like. I think all of our listeners can
certainly empathize with you because the feeling is there in
(26:42):
your words. You have city leadership that should respond to
something like this. You have Mayor Rex Richardson, you have
city council representative Megan Kerr.
Speaker 3 (26:54):
What are they doing.
Speaker 2 (26:55):
To support you all there at farm Lot fifty nine.
Speaker 3 (27:00):
That's a great question.
Speaker 8 (27:01):
The short answer is not much. The long answer is
that when you are in your place hold for such
a long time, people around you change. So before it
was Rex, so with Garcia, before it was Garcia, you know,
and Meghan Kerr is now we're District five. We were
(27:22):
District seven for a long time, and she's my fourth
or fifth council person at least from Park and Rec.
And he just put in his notice to resign or retire.
So I've seen probably five or six Park and Rec directors.
So there's not a lot of buy in from the
(27:45):
city into our parcel. They love to use it as
a marketing opportunity, but as far as support, you know,
with PV it's kind of the same way we are
West Division and it has to be crime and process.
So unless I want to be attached to my phone
(28:08):
twenty four to seven watching every game cam notifications of
a raccoon and the little.
Speaker 3 (28:15):
Bird and drive you crazy. I do the same thing.
Speaker 8 (28:18):
It would drive me crazy. So it's tricky. And then
the gate on California Avenue is locked, so even if
there was a call for PD, they would probably just
drive by. So it's unfortunately kind of a dead zone.
So not a lot of support. And even when things
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like this happen and the word does spread, not only
through our pledge campaign or through our website and our newsletter,
I never heard anything from any of those people. The
only person that ever reached out to me and our
whole tenure being here was Robert Garcia. When we had
a leaf snafu many many years ago and did not
(29:00):
get a renewal. He personally called me and helped me
work it out when Pat West was city manager. But
other than that, they're.
Speaker 3 (29:08):
Just dropping the balls there.
Speaker 8 (29:11):
I'll stay over here, just uninterested.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Why do you think that is, especially when there's all
of this promotion of widening green spaces in southern California.
You know we're a health a health conscious area of
the country, And why do you think your farm continues
to be overlooked when it comes to protect it by protection, I.
Speaker 8 (29:35):
Think that it's an easy project to just kind of go, well,
Sasha's handling it. She's always figured it out this far,
and she has her own community and network, and she's
fine on her own, and they don't seem to want
to share their discretionary funds for enhand security. There was
(29:58):
a historic train depot that was moved there in twenty sixteen,
boarded up and burned down, and it's been a gaping
hole in the ground with a broken chain link bent
around it ever since. It's just nothing. There's nothing there.
There's active oil and a dirt parking lot. So what
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is the benefit for them to have this? I have
a really low lease. I pay a percentage of our
income to be there, but overall not breaking the budget
for them or contributing in any kind of financial way.
Speaker 3 (30:36):
So well, you know, kind of whatever.
Speaker 2 (30:39):
They might overlook you, and that is just a reflection,
sadly of their interests. But you do service a wide community.
You have so many supporters and have had so many
supporters throughout this entire time of having the farm, and
you have a major fundraising event coming up. Tell us
(30:59):
a about that fundraising event, what the proceeds will go to.
I imagine upkeep and having to respond to vandalism is.
Speaker 3 (31:07):
A part of that.
Speaker 2 (31:08):
But tell us how this fundraising event is going to
support farm Lot fifty nine and what we can do
as well.
Speaker 8 (31:16):
Yeah, we have a fundraising event. We have two big
fundraisers every year. We have a big party June next
twenty twenty six will be in June six where we
have live music and we roast a whole hug and
our chefs come and it's super fun. I do that
one once a year. And then we are a participant
in Long Beach Gibbs, which are is our city wide
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giving campaign. And our in person event is coming up
in September at Ponsa, my girlfriend's restaurant. It's an amazing
restaurant on Broadway.
Speaker 3 (31:47):
And that September seventeenth, right, yes.
Speaker 8 (31:51):
And we'll have music and food and all kinds of
fun raffle things and silent auction, and all the proceeds
do go to help support the farm. All of my
team is women, one women in agriculture. Go girls, and
I know the only ones that are out there half
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in mint in the seat.
Speaker 3 (32:13):
Oh my gosh, that's the usual, Sasha, that's the norm.
Speaker 8 (32:17):
Yes, and they're all amazing. So we keep them employed
year round. It's not a seasonal job. It's the lifetime job.
Speaker 3 (32:26):
Fantastic team that I have.
Speaker 8 (32:27):
Yeah, we've got young moms, We've got all kinds of stuff,
so keeping them working all winter and just keeping the
farm going, you know.
Speaker 2 (32:36):
So that fundraising event is Wednesday, September seventeenth, It's called
Long Beach Gives And how can people find out more
information about Farm Lot fifty nine, the fundraiser and everything.
You guys are working on social media website, give us
everything you got.
Speaker 8 (32:52):
Yeah, we're everywhere at Farm Lot fifty nine. It's farm
lat fifty nine, dot org and Instagram. Mostly for our
socials newsletter we do weekly. I write sub stack articles
that give a little bit more of the inside of
what's happening on the farm. Yeah, it's great. We invite
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you to come for event and workshops, and our big
event is coming up to Sundraiser and then our in
person party next June. But in the spring we have
floral design classes and Mother's Day brunches and you want
to be connected with local Agricultures and check us out.
Speaker 2 (33:33):
And do not just show up unannounced. That was a
big thing on the website. Don't just go without having
business there. You have to make an appointment. Do I
have that right?
Speaker 3 (33:42):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (33:42):
Come during shop hours. The farm stand is open Thursday
through Sunday nine to one, so you can go to
the shop and buy your flowers up there and then
on the farm.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
We are working.
Speaker 8 (33:55):
So it is a closed environment unless you are part
of something that's already going.
Speaker 2 (34:00):
On awesome, and you want to be a part of
something that's going on there at farm Lot fifty nine.
If you want to read more about the vandalism aspect,
you can head over to Long Beachpost dot com and
just enter into the search bar farm Lot fifty nine
and the article should pop up.
Speaker 3 (34:17):
Or Google it.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
But it's definitely worth taking a read, and it's more
than worth supporting such a worthy organization that's doing incredible work. Sasha,
thank you so much for coming on Saturdays with Tiffany
and we wish you all the best.
Speaker 8 (34:33):
My pleasure. It was so nice chatting with you. Thank
you so much.
Speaker 2 (34:36):
You're most welcome to Saturdays with Tiffany. Tiffany hobbs here
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