Tag: Food Insecurity

  • Anti-Globalization Movement Lingers at Teralta Park’s ‘Really Really Free Market’

    Video Credit: Brian Myers, Media Arts Center San Diego By Brian Myers It was an ordinary Sunday in Teralta Park for City Heights resident Francisco when he stumbled upon numerous signs proclaiming that what looked like a storage closet explosion in the park near Orange Avenue, was all free. Really, really free, that is. The…

  • Albertson’s Closes City Heights Store

    Photo Courtesy of Kimco By Megan Burks The Albertson’s in City Heights is one of 11 in southern California closing its doors next month. The departure comes two decades after Price Club founder Sol Price and CityLink developed the Albertson’s facility to stoke community revitalization. Price’s motivation then: the closure of a Von’s in the…

  • 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…

  • Stocking Needy Kitchens With Low Hanging Fruit

    Philip Dunn picks grapefruit at a home orchard in La Mesa. The property owners didn’t want the fruit, so Dunn and a small group of volunteers showed up with boxes and bags, hauled away what they could and donated it to the food pantry at the International Rescue Committee. | Photo Credit: Sam Hodgson By…

  • Garden Project Allows Crawford Students To Grow

    By Megan Burke and Brian Myers San Diego’s Crawford High School in City Heights is among the most culturally diverse schools in the nation. An innovative school garden program at the school gives students a chance to discuss their culture through food. Kaley Hearnsberger is Crawford’s Youth Food Justice Coordinator. She runs the internship program,…