Written by Amanda Schultz Brochu As the San Diego Food System Alliance looks towards building a more equitable food system that supports and is enjoyed by all San Diegans, one immediate opportunity to strengthen our local food system is by maximizing our region’s...
Working across the County, I Love to Glean helps to increase the capacity to recover and distribute food that would otherwise be wasted to agencies serving those in need. The organization works...
The San Diego Food Bank and Feeding San Diego are two organizations that have been on the front lines throughout COVID-19, securing and distributing more food than ever before. According to the San...
Since 2014, Coastal Roots Farm has been on a mission to cultivate healthy, connected communities through sustainable agriculture, food justice, and ancient Jewish wisdom. “We practice organic...
What would it look like to pile up all of the food waste from a commercial kitchen over the course of a week, a month, or a year? The Alliance got a glimpse into the answer to that question by...
“San Diego county is rich with fresh produce that belongs in the food system, not the landfill,” said Nita Kurmins Gilson, Co-Executive Director and Co-founder of ProduceGood, a nonprofit that...
Linda Vista is one of San Diego’s six most socio-economically distressed communities, which is compounded by it being a USDA-defined food desert. With more than half of the nearly 34,000 residents...
“¡Más Fresco! is a promise,” says Joe Prickitt, the Senior Director of the Southern California Nutrition Incentive Program known as ¡Más Fresco! More Fresh. “It is the promise of a more just and...
“The bottom line is, kids aren’t getting the healthy food they need,” said Mim Michelove, who co-founded Healthy Day Partners in 2012. “We have enough food to end hunger. What we need is the...
Becky Arrolando spent 26 years in a cycle of addiction, gangs, incarceration, and homelessness. Then, in 2017, while staying at a sober living home post-incarceration, she met an apprentice enrolled...
San Diego County has more small farms than any other County in the United States, but connecting those farms to institutions with different sizes and volumes of needs creates a supply and demand...
Public institutions spend billions of dollars on food purchases each year, which presents an incredible opportunity to transform the food system. The Good Food Purchasing Program was designed to...
Trauma is a pervasive public health problem, and its effects are detrimental to San Diego County residents. While the general understanding of trauma is often limited to commonly accepted adverse...
