Hunger in San Diego County is worth solving. Here are three reasons why. Hunger in America is not going away anytime soon. There’s an ongoing debate in our country about the value of hunger relief programs. One argument against taking the time to make nutrition...
Written by Amanda Schultz Brochu As the San Diego Food System Alliance looks towards building a...
Working across the County, I Love to Glean helps to increase the capacity to recover and...
The Carbon Farming Task Force, led by the San Diego County Farm Bureau and Solidarity Farm, brings...
Cooking for Salud®, a program of Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center, is an 8-week bilingual...
The San Diego Food Bank and Feeding San Diego are two organizations that have been on the front...
Anna Rameshwar grew up in Fallbrook surrounded by plants and gardening. Some of her earliest...
The people who are most adversely impacted by governing body decisions on issues like justice,...
Poder Popular, a community advocacy group under Vista Community Clinic’s Migrant Health Program,...
While the agricultural world relies on hardworking migrant farmworker communities, these...
When I tell people I want to challenge the system, many say it can’t be done. They ask me about my...
Cassava root. Freshly made tortillas. Locally raised halal lamb. Cleaned and chopped nopales....
60 years. That’s the time the United Nations says we have left to farm, worldwide, if we continue...
The County of San Diego Climate Action Plan (CAP) contains a series of measures to reduce...
“I grew up in Imperial County and never knew that working in food systems was an option,” said...
It is impossible to separate equity from economics. Knowing that systemic exclusion has served as...
Since 2014, Coastal Roots Farm has been on a mission to cultivate healthy, connected communities...
“Mesquite, acorn, and nopales—three foods that are native to this region, sustainable, and good...
Stephanie Parker, the founder of Epicurean San Diego, and Christina Ng, chef and founder of...
Households are the largest contributors to the food waste stream—at 43%, they easily outsize waste...
What would it look like to pile up all of the food waste from a commercial kitchen over the course...
“San Diego county is rich with fresh produce that belongs in the food system, not the landfill,”...
Community composting comes with a host of challenges, most notably, the collection of food scraps....
Linda Vista is one of San Diego’s six most socio-economically distressed communities, which is...
The traditional territory of the Pala Band of Mission Indians stretches from Warner Springs, home...
Stepping into City Heights’ Mid-East Market is a sensory experience, and for many first- and...
Launched just before the pandemic shook the world, the Pala Band of Mission Indians’ Púyily...
Dian Moss, Managing Director of Project New Village in Southeastern San Diego, was not always...
“¡Más Fresco! is a promise,” says Joe Prickitt, the Senior Director of the Southern California...
“The bottom line is, kids aren’t getting the healthy food they need,” said Mim Michelove, who...
Mikey Knab runs three restaurants and works with more than 800 restaurant owners. He hates to tell...
Becky Arrolando spent 26 years in a cycle of addiction, gangs, incarceration, and homelessness....
Food can bridge divisions in ideology and politics while sparking animated conversations like...
Passion for the local farming community is personal for Janis and Rafael Garcia. Rafael got his...
San Diego County has more small farms than any other County in the United States, but connecting...
Many San Diego residents who live in low-income and...
In San Diego County, you’ll find that those who farm, fish, brew beer, make wine, and operate our...
Public institutions spend billions of dollars on food purchases each year, which presents an...
Becoming a subscriber to Foodshed’s Fresh 5 program—a weekly distribution of fresh, seasonal...
In 1984, my parents immigrated to the United States from Vietnam. My father worked in construction...
Despite having over twelve thousand miles of coastline, 99% of all seaweed consumed in the United...
As a twenty-four year old, third-generation fisher, I have watched the ebb and flow of the...
My family immigrated to San Diego from Xalapa, Mexico, in 1987. In 1989, my parents founded Super...
The greenhouse at Solutions Farms is cool, humid, and bright, vibrating with activity as employees...
On the drive to Pauma Valley, it’s wise to slow down on Cole Grade Road. Not just because there...
At Pixca Farm, December showers quite literally brought Mother’s Day flowers: golden calendula,...
Officially, Nick Stridsberg has been managing San Gabriel Ranch for seven years, since he took the...
According to the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, a resilient food system is “able to...
Back in 2008, I accepted the definition for food justice as “everyone having access to safe,...
If you ask them, most people in San Diego County would probably agree that it’s good to have...
As the City of Oceanside’s Environmental Officer, I have been working toward a zero waste...
Trauma is a pervasive public health problem, and its effects are detrimental to San Diego County...
For many workers, long-term job security, employment benefits, and work protections are a thing of...
An entrepreneurial approach is key to scaling up local, sustainable, and equitable food value...
As a lifelong farmers market fan turned operator, I like to say that my job is weird. My team and...
The need for strong local food systems became crystal clear during the COVID-19 pandemic when...
I was born in San Diego and raised by the Vietnamese refugee community here. As displaced peoples...
The COVID-19 pandemic illustrated the many ways that the United States lacks the critical...
Our food system, as one system in a global economy, exploits labor globally, nationally, and...
