Cooking for Salud®, a program of Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center, is an 8-week bilingual English and Spanish nutrition education program that teaches participants how to make healthy changes at home. The program provides participants with tools to change their...
The people who are most adversely impacted by governing body decisions on issues like justice, land use, and public policy are rarely at the table when those decisions are made. There are a lot of...
Poder Popular, a community advocacy group under Vista Community Clinic’s Migrant Health Program, believes that zip codes should not determine life expectancies. Yet the reality throughout low-income...
While the agricultural world relies on hardworking migrant farmworker communities, these communities remain some of the county’s most vulnerable as they exist in a labor system that is not designed...
When I tell people I want to challenge the system, many say it can’t be done. They ask me about my education, and I say, “Why, yes, I do have my Master’s.” Then I point around in reference to my...
It is impossible to separate equity from economics. Knowing that systemic exclusion has served as the backdrop of the American story for generations, Catalyst of San Diego & Imperial Counties...
Launched just before the pandemic shook the world, the Pala Band of Mission Indians’ Púyily ‘Áy’enish (Big Meal, a Great Feast) couldn’t have been a more valuable last gathering. The first Púyily...
Dian Moss, Managing Director of Project New Village in Southeastern San Diego, was not always interested in food justice—in fact, her discovery of the movement was happenstance. “In 2006, I happened...
Food can bridge divisions in ideology and politics while sparking animated conversations like nothing else. Everyone eats, and taste buds don’t discriminate. Even timid eaters will salivate for Sri...
My family immigrated to San Diego from Xalapa, Mexico, in 1987. In 1989, my parents founded Super Cocina, a small restaurant, in the building where the Barrio Logan Farmers Market was once held....
On the drive to Pauma Valley, it’s wise to slow down on Cole Grade Road. Not just because there are two hairpin turns as the road drops eight percent, but because a perfect, panoramic view appears...
At Pixca Farm, December showers quite literally brought Mother’s Day flowers: golden calendula, gumdrop-like gomphrena, tall and delicate caspia, and Pixca’s signature, bright orange...
Back in 2008, I accepted the definition for food justice as “everyone having access to safe, nutritious and culturally appropriate food in sufficient quantity and quality to sustain a healthy life...
Our food system, as one system in a global economy, exploits labor globally, nationally, and locally. It is structured to be unjust toward workers. Corporations are incentivized to minimize inputs,...
