Grow Your Community. Grow Your Legacy.
Learn about our Urban Orchards and Adjudicated Property programs—and be first to join when enrollment opens.
Why Join Our Programs
This is about more than gardening. It’s about learning real skills, restoring neglected land, and being part of a community-driven effort that creates lasting impact. When you join, you’re not just growing food—you’re helping grow opportunity, ownership, and legacy.
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Learn Real Urban Growing Skills
Get hands-on training in urban gardening—from soil to harvest. Whether you’re brand new or already growing, you’ll learn practical skills you can use in your own community right away.
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Turn Neglected Land Meaningful
These programs take abandoned, overlooked lots and turn them into productive spaces that feed people, build pride, and restore value to the neighborhood.
Be Part of Something Bigger Than You
This isn’t just gardening—it’s community work. You’ll be working alongside neighbors, volunteers, and families who care about food access, sustainability, and long-term impact.
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Build Toward a Lasting Legacy
Especially through the Lease-to-Own program, your time and effort can lead to land ownership—transforming a temporary opportunity into a permanent family legacy.
Suggah Shack Urban Farm Authority (SSUFA)
The backbone for urban food systems in our city.
The Suggah Shack Urban Farm Authority (SSUFA) is a centralized entity designed to plan, manage, and protect long-term urban agriculture efforts. SSUFA exists to turn underutilized land into productive green infrastructure that supports food access, workforce development, and community resilience — without placing long-term burden on the city.
SSUFA functions as the operator, steward, and accountability layer for all urban agriculture programs under its umbrella.
Think: structure, longevity, and receipts.
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The Organization
Suggah Shack Urban Farm Authority
See how the SSUFA is building legacy, creating opportunity, and strengthening our community — and find your place in it.
SSUFA Programs
Tailored Programs to Build Legacy
Permanent food assets, planted once — feeding for decades.
The Urban Orchards Initiative converts public and partner-owned land into perennial, low-maintenance food orchards that provide long-term yield with minimal annual input. Unlike traditional gardens, orchards are infrastructure, not seasonal projects.
These spaces:
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Produce food year after year
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Require decreasing maintenance over time
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Create shade, cooling, and ecological benefits
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Serve as community-access food sources and educational sites
Once established, orchards become self-reinforcing assets, not recurring budget line items.
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From liability to local asset.
The Adjudicated Properties Activation Program transforms tax-delinquent or abandoned parcels into managed agricultural and green-use sites. SSUFA assumes operational responsibility, reducing city maintenance costs while improving safety, visibility, and land value.
This program:
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Stabilizes neglected properties
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Prevents illegal dumping and blight
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Activates land without permanent transfer
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Creates a reversible, low-risk use model
The city retains ownership.
The community gains function.
The land stops being dead weight.-
Be First in Line to Transform Your Community
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SSUFA Adjudicated Property Program Process
Extensive programs and services used to elevate the Lake Charles living experience
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Step One : Sign up for the Adjudicated Property Program
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Step Two : Get Accepted and Get Property Assignment
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Step Three : SSUFA Adjudicated Property Setup
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Step Four : Produce and Donate 100% of crops.
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Step Five : Receive USDA Farm Number
Step Six : Graduate and build a new home.
This Is Where It Starts.
Urban Orchards and Adjudicated Properties are rolling out soon.
If you want early updates, access opportunities, and a front-row seat to how this city grows food differently — get on the waiting list.