The Planning Commission voted, 3-2, to recommend that City Council deny a rezoning and special-use permit for developer Justin Shimp’s Hogwaller Farm on Tuesday.

Novella Carpenter’s 2009 memoir, Farm City, trumpets the value of raising chickens, pigs and bees—in Oakland. Urban farming is a response to a variety of pressures.

Gladstone Land, meanwhile, owned 150 farms with 103,000 total acres in 15 states. It mainly focuses on farmland used to grow healthy foods such as fruits, vegetables, and nuts.

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