It costs $1 a day to feed a child a salad & 35 cents to feed a child pizza. What do you think schools feed our children? The CoCo San Sustainable Farm in Martinez, CA is a project of the Earth Island institute, a non-profit environmental incubator in Berkeley. It costs $1 a day to feed a child a salad. Schools can not afford that. The food bank can not get salad vegetables because they are highly perishable and unavailable locally. We will be providing some free and some reduced-price produce to schools and the food bank by growing produce at a very low cost. We will grow produce on 33 acres of unused Central Contra Costa Sanitary District buffer land, using recycled agricultural-grade water, which is otherwise discharged into the Bay. This recycled water is high in organic nitrogen, providing free fertilizer. The Food Bank is a mile from the farm and will pick up the produce and use existing systems to distribute it to schools and clients. Hence, we are deploying under-utilized resources to nearly eliminate 4 of the major costs of food production: LAND, WATER, FERTILIZER, and TRANSPORTATION. Our business model is to generate revenue by selling 75% of the crops; renting community garden plots with classes; selling advertizing at the farm and on our website; and charging a fee for special services and events. Because we are a non-profit, we will also generate income from donations and grants. We will be sharing net revenues with Central San, financially benefiting rate-payers. One of the goals of the farm is to educate. Every aspect of science touches a farm such as physics, soil science, hydrology, meteorology, and nutrition. We are working with State Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Teacher of the Year, the Community College Board, and an expert who created internships for NASA to integrate the farm into school curricula. The farm will be an incubator for green jobs. We will partner with other sustainable businesses to showcase their products and teach aspects of jobs related to these industries. The environment will also benefit. Plants sequester carbon and clean the air. We reduce the major types of carbon pollution associated with food production: FOSSIL FUEL- BASED FERTILIZER and TRANSPORT. We will also rebuild barren soil and increase ground water, benefiting two adjacent creeks. Sanitary districts all over the world have unused buffer land and throw away recycled water. Sanitary districts in Contra Costa and Alameda Counties discharge about 200 million gallons of water into the Bay on a dry day and 1 billion gallons of water on a rainy day. Our business model is scalable and once proven, other sanitary districts can emulate to not waste this precious resource. The farm will produce a Win-Win-Win for public health, education, the environment, the economy, and rate-payers. An apple a day will not keep the doctor away. But a salad a day might!