Thieves repeatedly steal tools, supplies from farm that teaches youth with disabilities how to garden

Volunteers at Sowing Seeds of Change, an urban farm in downtown Long Beach, have had to become experts in an unexpected subject: fence repair. And they’re starting to get fed up.

The small farm, which serves young adults with disabilities, has been broken into five times this year, said Lindsay Smith, the nonprofit organization’s executive director.

Each time, Smith and other volunteers patch the fencing that burglars cut through, but it’s been an inadequate deterrent…

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