The community is located between Wilmington Avenue and South Alameda Street and West Greenleaf Boulevard and West Alondra Boulevard. The largest urban agricultural zone in Los Angeles County, Richland Farms is home to 435 families and hundreds of farm animals. “Richland Farms should be in the forefront of Compton’s image and it would change the public façade of the city dramatically.” He points out Richland Farms is one of the few places in the country that still looks like farmland and allows residents to keep animals freely. “You would never know what’s in the backs of these houses,” Wilkins says with a grin. Lloyd Bertrand Wilkins, a 73-year old retired school teacher and Compton resident for 61 years, for example, owns two properties in Richland Farms where he keeps 10 horses and two hybrid wolves. Retired school teacher Lloyd Bertrand Wilkins has lived in Compton for 61 years. Homeowners in this 10-block enclave own livestock such as horses, chickens, ducks, goats, cows and other animals. It’s what’s in the backyards of most of the homes in the neighborhood that may surprise outsiders. Some lawns are manicured and cut to perfection where others have slightly out grown grass. The single-story homes are painted in bright colors. It’s a different world in the tight knit-community of Richland Farms inside the city of Compton. Instead, roosters crowing and horses’ hooves going click-clack click-clack are heard throughout the paved streets. There are no gunshots to be heard or gangster rap music blaring from low-riding Chevys.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |