A Look at CRECE’s 2025
Dear community,
Thank you for standing by us throughout 2025, a year characterized by change, challenges, and new beginnings. When CRECE said goodbye to La Granjita in December 2024, we left behind not just a physical space, but 8 years of growth. We were blessed to have the opportunity to blossom a collaboration with Our Saviour Lutheran Church to launch and operate Grace Community Farm, our new home base for programs. In the span of 1 year, we have transformed a once untouched grass lawn into a fully operational farm, and grown our community with you all. Together, we have welcomed new team members, embraced 2 cohorts of youth from across Orange County, and strengthened the bonds that make our community farm so special.
To reaffirm our mission, CRECE Urban Farms aims to restore the local environment and build community-owned, culturally relevant food systems led by farmers and food stewards from historically disadvantaged communities in Orange County and adjacent counties. We are guided by the vision to fight food apartheid so that frontline urban growers and working families can enjoy a better quality of life by strengthening and healing our relationships to land, food, and each other.
In the last year our immigrant communities have been constantly under attack. We have stood up to this state sanctioned terror through small acts of solidarity. We must continue to lean on each other and to water a vision for a world where we can live full lives with dignity.
Through it all--the good, the bad, and the ugly--we brace for and embrace 2026, together with you. See you around the farm.
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