By Zoee Tanner, Education and Curriculum Development While the Bay Area has always had a need for bettering food security, the problem of addressing lack of accessibility to fresh, nutritious, and culturally diverse food has only amplified with the pandemic. During COVID-19 demand for food assistance in the Bay Area, Read more…
Written by Sabrina Hoenig, Content Manager Intern A key part of Each Green Corners mission is to confront the widespread issue of food insecurity in the Bay Area through community organizing that inspires collective action to create a food network that increases access to healthy, fresh, and culturally diverse produce. Read more…
Written by Nicole Shimizu, Communications and Outreach Coordinator According to Foodprint, food justice is “a holistic and structural view of the food system that sees healthy food as a human right and addresses structural barriers to that right.” Food justice aims to make healthy foods accessible and to end the Read more…
Written by Alexandra Kaminski, Grant Writing & Development Intern Each Green Corner’s Food Explorers program functions at our Living Campus partner sites, a program in which EGC collaborates with schools and community partners to design garden-centered outdoor educational areas and subsequently use these sites to educate and engage students with Read more…
By Zoee Tanner, Education and Curriculum Development While the Bay Area has always had a need for bettering food security, the problem of addressing lack of accessibility to fresh, nutritious, and culturally diverse food has only amplified with the pandemic. During COVID-19 demand for food assistance in the Bay Area, Read more…
Written by Trista Barrantes, Education & Curriculum Intern March 31st marks the celebration of Cesar Chavez Day! Today, we reflect on the Farmworkers’ Movement in honor of Mexican-American civil rights and labor activist Cesar Chavez. Cesar Chavez (March 31, 1927 – April 23, 1993) was a Mexican-American civil rights and Read more…
Written by Sabrina Hoenig, Content Manager Intern A key part of Each Green Corners mission is to confront the widespread issue of food insecurity in the Bay Area through community organizing that inspires collective action to create a food network that increases access to healthy, fresh, and culturally diverse produce. Read more…
Written by Zoee Tanner, Education and Curriculum Development It’s no question that our current food systems are increasingly unsustainable and leave large gaps in food accessibility particularly in low-income communities of color. The shortcomings of our food systems in such communities and its degradation of natural resources points to a Read more…
By Zoee Tanner, Education and Curriculum Development While the Bay Area has always had a need for bettering food security, the problem of addressing lack of accessibility to fresh, nutritious, and culturally diverse food has only amplified with the pandemic. During COVID-19 demand for food assistance in the Bay Area, Read more…
Written by Nicole Shimizu, Communications and Outreach Coordinator According to Foodprint, food justice is “a holistic and structural view of the food system that sees healthy food as a human right and addresses structural barriers to that right.” Food justice aims to make healthy foods accessible and to end the Read more…