A Farm in Dallas
Image by Arch 5670, UTA School of Architecture
As part of their spring 2014 studio, graduate architecture students from the School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington are working with the La Bajada neighborhood and West Dallas Community Centers, Inc. (WDCC) to design the urban farm and recreational space on the vacant land owned by WDCC at their Bataan Street Community Center site.
The Project
Temporary Location
Collaborative Partners
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The urban farm will employ economically disadvantaged youth as paid interns, providing them an initial work experience growing healthy food and teaching them about horticulture, nutrition, cooking, and business economics.
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Farm interns from local high schools will enhance their leadership and teamwork abilities through the collaboration of growing food.
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Programming will focus on developing a sense of responsibility, community, environmental stewardship, and service among participants.
The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington is providing overall project development and design services for the construction of an urban youth farm in West Dallas. The project is the result of a year and a half of envisioning a beneficial public green space and an opportunity to address public health and a supportive work environment for high school aged youth.
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Extra produce is sold to vendors who wish to provide locally grown food, thus providing an income for the youth farm.
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The farm promotes public health and will be transforming under-utilized vacant land in the heart of the neighborhood.
Media
RECENT PRESS
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October 25, 2017
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By Hannah Davis
WFAA
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July 7, 2017
Location at 3106 Herbert at Toronto
The School of Architecture at The University of Texas at Arlington is providing overall project development and design services for the construction of an urban youth farm in West Dallas. The project is the result of a year and a hal...
September 18, 2015
Representing the Board, Dustin Thibodeaux, Don Gatzke, Sharon Van Meter, Keith Nix and Eva Elvove Granted the West Dallas Chamber of Commerce annual Visionary Award, in the
company of past winners Margaret Hunt Hill Bridge, West Dallas Investments, SPCA of Dallas...
January 28, 2015
Can an urban farm heal the divide between residents and the throng of outside developers setting up camp in the area?
BY FARRAZ KHANFROM D MAGAZINE FEBRUARY 2014 PHOTOGRAPHY BY SCOTT WOMACK
The new West Dallas and the old West Dallas meet at 4.5 acres of opportunity. T...
July 12, 2014
A UTA dean pledges his last two years in academia to bring La Bajada Urban Youth Farm from fallow to fruition.
There’s so much riding on a 2.5-acre field in West Dallas that Don Gatzke, dean of the UTA School of Architecture, is devoting his final two years in academia...
January 3, 2014
Afew years ago, Paul Quinn College turned a football field into a farm that now provides large quantities of fresh food for, among others, the Dallas Cowboys.
Could a similar economic empowerment strategy work in West Dallas? We give the idea a resounding “yes.”
While t...
December 24, 2013
By ROY APPLETON
Staff Writer
rappleton@dallasnews.com
Published: 23 December 2013 11:46 PM
Updated: 24 December 2013 12:16 AM
For years, the open space near the Bataan Community Center was all about athletics and play.
An idea taking root would make it a land of different...
