Tag: Community Garden

  • Tweet City Heights: CalFresh Challenge Raises Awareness for Hunger

    By Megan Burks San Diego Veg Week and CalFresh Challenge Change Diets, Minds This week, San Diego social media let us in on a lot more than the usual “who went where with whom” status updates. I found out exactly what some San Diegans were putting in their bellies—Councilwoman Marti Emerald was all about Italian…

  • IRC Grows Local Roots to National Market

    Noeuth Ith usually harvests mint for spring rolls and soup at home. Thanks to a partnership with San Diego granola company Earnest Eats, her mint will end up in homes nationwide. | Photo Credit: Megan Burks By Megan Burks and Brian Myers   On an overcast morning earlier this month, the New Roots Community Farm…

  • San Diego’s Urban Farms: Oases In Food Deserts

    The City Heights Farmers Market has become a model for outdoor markets that offer fresh produce to low-income immigrant folks in the inner city. | Photo Credit: Tom Fudge By Tom Fudge The Bayside Community Center sits on the edge of Tecolote Canyon amidst a landscape of rental housing, abandoned lots and strip malls. This…

  • Aqua Farm Turns Black Asphalt Into Green Space

    By Brian Myers The Fairmount Aqua Farm, a project of the International Rescue Committee, was developed on a quarter-acre asphalt lot on Fairmount Avenue in City Heights to train community members to grow food with less water and without soil. The project provides a way of growing healthy produce in one San Diego’s densest and…

  • New Roadblock for Reviving Refugee Farm

    Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By Adrian Florido A year ago, Ourn Lun, a grandmotherly 60-year-old, was evicted from a piece of city-owned land where she and a group of fellow Cambodian refugees had grown crops like bitter melon, red peppers and green beans in peaceful obscurity for nearly three decades. The refugees, all of them…