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Reclaimed water like this is used at a small farm in Contra Costa County. Photo from Civil Eats<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n

By Cirrus Wood<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

EXCERPTED<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

On a Saturday in late October, Carolyn Phinney stands hip-deep in a half acre of vegetables, at the nucleus of what will one day be 15 acres of productive farmland.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou can\u2019t even see the pathways,\u201d she says, surrounded by the literal fruits of her labors. The patch is a wealth of herbs, tomatoes, eggplants, peppers, kale, winter squash, and zucchini. So much zucchini\u2014fruits the size of bowling pins hidden under leaves as big as umbrellas. \u201cZucchini plants are supposed to be 30 inches across. Ours are 8 feet,\u201d she says. \u201cEverything looks like it\u2019s on steroids.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phinney is the farmer behind\u00a0CoCo San Sustainable Farm<\/a>\u00a0of Martinez, California, a farm built on reclaimed land, using reclaimed water, and started with a simple mission: to get kids to eat more vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2010, Phinney learned local school districts served pizza more often than salad because produce cost four times more than cheese and bread. She set out to make vegetables in her county more affordable\u2014or free, if possible. The effort has paid off. Since May of this year, Phinney has grown and donated more than 13,000 pounds of produce to local food banks and school districts. All of it from just this half acre. Phinney is the farm\u2019s only full-time employee, and she has worked with a team of volunteers to get the food in the ground so far.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe could produce several hundred thousand pounds of produce [if we were] in full production,\u201d she says, referring to the 14.5 acres of bare earth and citing a time only a few years away, when the remaining land will be irrigated and planted in vegetables.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Phinney\u2019s achievement is all the more remarkable considering the location. Prior to Phinney, Contra Costa County had used the 15-acre property as a dumping ground for excavated subsoil trucked in from elsewhere. The ground was so poor that even weeds struggled to grow there. However, as prospective farmland, the place had two big things going for it. It was cheap\u2014Phinney leases the land for a dollar a year\u2014and it came with a free and near limitless supply of water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The farm is located on sanitary buffer land owned by the\u00a0Central Contra Costa Sanitary District<\/a>\u00a0(CCCSD) and is adjacent to their water treatment plant. Phinney irrigates all her crops with reclaimed wastewater, which she says is nutrient rich, safe, free, and abundant. And for Phinney, the water is the real secret to growing such healthy, high-yielding plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The water Phinney uses falls under Title 22 of California\u2019s Code of Regulations<\/a>, which, in addition to landscaping, allows for the application of sterilized, treated wastewater to agricultural crops. CCCSD\u2019s wastewater treatment process involves a primary treatment of sedimentation, a secondary biological treatment which uses micro-organisms to dissolve suspended organic compounds, and then disinfection with UV light. The treated wastewater is then filtered through a dual media filter and then another round of disinfection with sodium hypochlorite (liquid bleach) to produce recycled water. The resulting water is approved for all agricultural use in California, including root crops.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Still, few municipalities are following Phinney\u2019s lead and using treated wastewater directly for food production. But that\u2019s not because it hasn\u2019t been proven safe.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read more at the Civil Eats web site <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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