We had our first workday at the new farm site in Sunol. We had a crew of 11 people including two staff, 3 interns and 6 volunteers. (Thank you interns and volunteers for all of your help!). We worked on building the irrigation system for watering, including installing the main pipeline as well as laying […]

There’s new hope for West Oakland’s only grocery store to provide more relevant products and services to the community. The grocery store, located in the Jack London Gateway Shopping Center on the corner of 7th St. & Market St. was originally owned by a small independent owner-operator out of LA and was called Gateway […]

After much work to get the green light we’re launching our 2 acre farm in Sunol this week. Peter Rudnick, is a master organic farmer, is working with us to get it all started. Peter was Farm Manager at Green Gulch Farm for over 25 years, an organic farm and garden in Muir Beach. […]

Senate Bill 1329 (Alquist-San Jose), known as the Healthy Food Access Act, is a bill currently in legislation that would provide several important streams of funding support to low-income communities to provide healthy food choices. This Bill, among others destined to come down the legistlative pipeline in the coming years, will provide strong opportunities […]

Two grad students recently finished a great document for the Office of Sustainability of Oakland to analyze and assess the food system in Oakland. The document is full of revealing information. People’s Grocery gets good mention in a couple parts of the document.
This food system assessment is now available online through a wiki and I […]

For anyone who wants to know more about the relationship between diet, health and access to healthy foods in low income areas Health Dialogues, a radio show that’s aired on KQED (88.5) as part of the California Report, did a great show on May 19 entitled “Access to a Healthy Diet” that featured an interview […]