Tag: Food Justice

  • Video: Mama’s Kitchen Has New Home

    By Dwane Brown and Nicholas McVicker Last week Mama’s Kitchen opened its new facility in Fairmont Park on Home Avenue. The non-profit has been delivering free meals to AIDS and cancer patients in San Diego County for 20 years. On it’s first day of operation at the new site, volunteers were putting food into grocery…

  • Field Guide: The Rise of Urban Farming

    By Megan Burks [Editor’s Note: Field Guide is a weekly email bringing you the news, explainers and action items needed to navigate your changing community. Click here to subscribe.] FIELD GUIDE TOOLBOX Food Security n. \ˈfüd\ \si-ˈkyu̇r-ə-tē\: When all people at all times have access to sufficient, safe, nutritious food to maintain a healthy and…

  • Council Considers Legalizing Backyard Bees, Fowl, Even Pygmy Goats

    By Adrian Florido Two-and-a-half months after the City Council legalized community gardens on most vacant lots, at least two parcels are already being primed to nurture their first seeds. Both gardens are being started by nonprofits that serve low-income or immigrant neighborhoods in Mount Hope and Linda Vista. As it embraces and promotes urban agriculture, San Diego is…

  • 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…

  • Youth Photographers Explore New Roots

    This summer, students in The AjA Project’s photography workshops considered City Heights’ relationship with food–where residents get it, whether it’s healthy and how it compares to the food refugees ate previously. They followed their camera lenses to the New Roots Community Farm, where refugees grow their own food. The farm helps growers reconnect with the…