Tag: Food Security

  • San Diego Culinary Program Takes On Hunger, Waste And Barriers To Employment

    San Diego Culinary Program Takes On Hunger, Waste And Barriers To Employment

    A San Diego program sets out to give people dubbed “unemployable” the skills to break a cycle of poverty.

  • How San Diego Schools Fight Hunger During The Holidays

    How San Diego Schools Fight Hunger During The Holidays

    For some students, school meals are a lifeline. What happens during the holiday break?

  • 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…

  • Local Youth Use Cell Phones to Report on Food Justice

    The People’s Produce Market in southeast San Diego is working to bring fresh, local fruits and vegetables to low-income shoppers in the area. It collects CalFresh funds, Women, Infant and Children vouchers and senior vouchers. Below, MobileStories reporter Demetrius Smith takes viewers to the market to talk with some of its organizers. MobileStories is an…

  • 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…