I just conducted an interview on the Organic World Show with Jerry Kay, which will be available on LIME Radio (found on Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 114) starting next week.
I will be on the Local Dirt radio show on KDVS 90.3 FM, a radio station in Davis, CA, on Thursday September 7 from 8:30-9:30am. […]

On Monday July 31 People’s Grocery and other Bay Area food Justice organizations will be holding an event called GOOD FOOD in the HOOD a from 12-1pm at Oakland’s City Hall.
This event is being held as part of the 2nd Annual Eat In, Act Out Week (July 31 - August 6), which is a […]

A study conducted in Chicago will be released on Tuesday that concludes that residents of poor areas are more likely to die prematurely. Perhaps the most striking assertion of the study is that people who live in “food deserts” are more likely to die prematurely from diabetes, cancer, cardiovascular disease and obesity.
The study also […]

We have been conductng a strategic planning process to plan the future direction and goals for People’s Grocery. With a sense of the ambitousness of the projects we will undertake in the future, we have revised our core organizational goals to better guide our activities. Our revised core organizationla goals are:
1. Educate residents about […]

Our annual Food Justice Camp is coming up July 27-31, 2006. This year’s Food Justice Camp will be held at the Marin Headlands Institute.
The camp will convene 25 youth, ages 15-21, from low-income communities in the San Francisco Bay Area to learn about the social and economic inequalities in today’s food system and how […]

We’re having an interesting experience with an alternative offer that we’ve been making to our members while the mobile market is on a 2-4 month hiatus.
In lieu or the mobile market we’re offering a bag of free produce on Fridays to our members, as well as an ongoing 25% sale on all inventory.
Lots […]

On Saturday July 15 the California Food and Justice Coalition is holding a day long workshop entitled “Building Healthy Communities Through Food”. The workshop will be held at the EcoVillage Farm Learning Center in Richmond and will run from 8:30am-4:00pm.
The focus of the workshop is “increasing access to healthy foods and making change in […]

On Sunday July 2nd a crew of staff, interns and volunteers all headed out to the Sunol farm and planted a full acre of crops. We were belssed with a cool breeze that held up until the afternoon. People were really working well together to get the planting done and a bunch of innovations were […]