The Alameda Belt Line (ABL) in central Alameda is a 22-acre site that operated for over a century as a freight railyard, most recently by Union Pacific Railroad. The ABL was abandoned in 1998, when its major shipper, a Del Monte warehouse, closed. In 2008, following a lawsuit, the City of Alameda obtained the land to convert into a public park. Contaminated by both the fill used to build the site out of wetlands, and by its subsequent use, the conversion to a public park is a long term project. The Alameda Food Bank sponsored this study for an interim use -- an urban farm or community garden providing produce to the Food Bank (which operates at the west end of the site).