Tag: Food Justice

  • SD Unified Hopes to Feed 600,000 With Summer Meal Program

    By Erik Anderson San Diego officials hope to feed more than 600,000 kids with their free summer lunch program this year. San Diego Unified is a partner in the Summer Fun Café program, which hands out free lunches to students who would otherwise not be able to afford them during the summer. Gary Petill, food…

  • Tweet City Heights: Filner Hires City Planning Rock Star

    By Megan Burks Filner Hires City Planning Rock Star to Head Planning Department Mayor Bob Filner announced this week he’s hired former Ventura mayor and prominent sustainable development expert Bill Fulton to head the city’s planning department. U-T San Diego described his orders: “To take in livability, pedestrian-friendly community development, economic development, affordable housing and…

  • Sequestration Hits Low-Income Seniors

    Seniors eat lunch at the Gary and Mary West Senior Wellness Center in downtown San Diego on Monday, June 10, 2013. | Photo Credit: Susan Murphy, KPBS By Susan Murphy The Sequestration fallout is set to reach one of San Diego’s most vulnerable populations –- low-income seniors. The drastic cuts to vital programs could take…

  • Video: New Roots Farm Featured on ‘Savor San Diego’

    KPBS (channel 11) began running a new series by Saffron owner and chef Su-Mei Yu this month. Each Thursday at 9:30 p.m., “Savor San Diego” explores San Diego’s food scene and shares recipes inspired by it. Last week Yu featured the New Roots Community Farm operated by the International Rescue Committee in City Heights. Watch…

  • Teen Cooking Show Teaches Culture, Cameras and Chopping Skills

    By Jill Replogle “So directors, in order to get something going, you say ‘quiet on the set,’” Kristine Diekman shouts across the room to the two high school girls poring over a script. Diekman is a professor of video and new media at Cal State San Marcos. Photo Courtesy of Cooking It Up Mics and…