It’s 20 acres you’ve probably never heard of. Until now.

The Tijuana River Valley Community Garden suddenly is all over the news. Since the start of this month, the hub of more than 200 community garden plots and small-scale farms nestled amid woodsy scrubland near the U.S.-Mexico border has been on TV, in the newspaper and all over social media.

That’s because the small government agency that managed the garden without incident for years suddenly informed gardeners two weeks ago the agency was pulling out and gardeners had 60 days to pack up and leave.

The uproar that ensued has reached the highest levels of county government.

South County Supervisor Paloma Aguirre addressed the garden closure at a recent packed town hall. She promised to do everything she could to keep the garden ope

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