The LA-based Alliance for Healthy and Responsible Grocery Stores, a city-wide coalition of 25 community, faith-based, labor, and environmental organizations, just released an exhaustive report entitled ” Feeding Our Communities: A Call for Standards for Food Access and Job Quality in Los Angeles’ Grocery Industry”. The report is based on several months of public hearings […]

Saturday June 28 we held our first (of three) “Flavors of the Garden” Tasting Event at the 55th St. Garden. This event is a big thank you to all our many supporters, volunteers, donors, and friends (old and new). Loose Change Collective played jazz while guests tasted a beautiful array of different vegetables […]

On June 3rd we launched the Grub Box to the public. The Grub Box is a market basket of fresh fruits and vegetables from our farm (supplemented by outside producers) that is geared at providing quality fresh fruits and vegetables to West Oakland families at low-prices on a weekly or bi-weekly basis. In the first […]

Tomorrow is the 2008 election for Oakland City Council. A central issue that candidates are addressing is the high level of concern among residents about crime and safety in various neighborhoods of Oakland. Many residents of West Oakland are hopeful that a new council member can resolve this problem in a positive way that builds […]

People’s Grocery has developed a unique knowledge base from our history and track record of marketing healthy foods and delivering nutrition education to the West Oakland community. However, there are keys areas of business expertise that People’s Grocery has not developed that are central to the development of our business model. For these planning areas […]

Check out the recent media play that People’s Grocery has been getting:
CNBC’s “Street Signs” ran a “Green Collar Economy” series this week. People’s Grocery was featured on the April 23rd show, entitled “Growing Green”. Click here to check it out.
The Sundance Channel is running a new show called “The Good Fight”. Click […]

Back in March 2007 I wrote a blog post entitled “Urban Grocery Store Gap” about the entrance of Fresh & Easy into urban neighborhoods and my concerns that this would eclipse the opportunity for local entrepreneurs to start grocery stores to meet local food needs and, thereby, capture local spending power for local reinvestment. When […]

Much fanfare is being made about the upcoming Slow Food Nation conference, to be held from Friday, August 29 to Monday, September 1, 2008 in San Francisco. Among this fanfare were criticisms laid against Slow Food by Bruce Sterlings in the March 2008 issue of the online magazine Metropolis, where he accuses Slow Food of […]

The Global Oneness Project recently produced a short video about People’s Grocery. according to the website, the purpose of the Global Oneness Project is to explore “how the simple notion of oneness can be lived in our increasingly complex world”. They have produced lots of great videos in addition to the recent one about People’s […]

I spent all of last week meeting and studying with the great people at New Seasons Market, an amazing values-driven grocery company in Portland, OR. My trip was paid for by Leaderspring, a two-year leadership development program for nonprofit leaders that I’m participating in. The purpose of my visit to New Seasons Market was […]