In the meantime, the property has sat vacant except for a portion that the museum has used to store equipment and hold meetings. Though the city paid for conceptual plans for an ag center, no agency or nonprofit stepped up over the years to raise the money to develop the park nor take responsibility for its operation and maintenance – until now. dates back to 2007 when it acquired the 7.23-acre parcel using developer agricultural mitigation funds for the $1,080,000 purchase, intending to develop an Agricultural Park and History Center in partnership with the nearby East Contra Costa Historical Society Museum. The city’s connection to the Nail Property at 3900 Sellers Ave. And whatever we can do to keep these kids engaged in agriculture, I think is extremely important.”
“I don’t know if you guys noticed or not, but a lot of 4-H organizations are disappearing. “Kids are obviously passionate about agriculture and having a location for us to help foster that would be hugely beneficial to Brentwood,” he said. McCauley meanwhile stressed the educational value of developing an ag center. “We’re really excited about where this project is going,” she added. “For Facebook, we were up 136%, and we were up over 2,000% for Instagram,” the Harvest Time president said. Community events such as farmers markets, plant sales and food tastings will be hosted to promote the center’s produce and products, providing hands-on activities for the community, according to the plans. The center’s programming and activities will support agricultural enterprise by offering classes on gardening, animal husbandry, composting and sustainable farming practices.
McCauley also clarified that his group was asking for the surplus land to be contributed to the nonprofit. … Several of us have pulled a project like this off within that budget.” The most important thing is we feel like we can pull this off with that money.
“We are asking for a lot of money, but it’s really not,” Sean McCauley of Brentwood Harvest Time told the council. Under its proposal, Harvest Time would use $2,240,000 in Brentwood developer agricultural mitigation funds to build the educational barn, including animal pens, garden and greenhouses, along with indoor and outdoor event spaces. That group would take over the unused property from the city and operate the new ag center. To that end, the Brentwood City Council has voted to move forward with plans to draft an agreement with Harvest Time Brentwood, a nonprofit that promotes farming and its products while improving agri-tourism education. A long unused city property just outside Brentwood could soon become an agricultural innovation center partnering with a variety of nonprofits to educate students, residents and businesses about agriculture.
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