STOCKTON PUENTES is more than just a farm.
The 10-year-old Stockton organization operates Boggs Tract Community Farm but is also conducting tree-planting initiatives, victory gardens, virtual classes for kids and entrepreneurial guidance in COVID-safe ways during the pandemic.
Promotores Unidas Para la Educacion Nacional Tecnologias Sostenibles – PUENTES, as it is more commonly known – was formed when Jeremy Terhune returned to Stockton after working with the Peace Corps in Panama.
United Promoters for (the) National Education (of/on) Sustainable Technologies seeks to improve food access and security in Stockton, and aims to create sustainable agriculture opportunities in an urban environment.
Its first project was the community farm at the San Joaquin County Fairgrounds. It also created Boggs Tract Community Farm, thanks to the “generosity of the Port of Stockton,” Kenda Templeton, PUENTES executive director, said. “It is their land that they allow us to us