The Picardo family farmed 20 acres at 25th Avenue Northeast and Northeast 80th Street from the 1920s to about 1962 or '63. Rainie Picardo leased out plots for a few more years, and then the city bought the land. It is one of two historical farms preserved within Seattle city limits, the other being Marra Farm in South Park. The city's official web site describes Picardo Farm as having "Seattle's best soil… Rich, black, peaty, sucking with moisture in the spring, powdery dry for digging potatoes…"