Healthy foods bill could bring more grocery stores and farmers’ markets to...
The California Healthy Food Financing Initiative (CHFFI) landed on Governor Jerry Brown’s desk last week, after the state Senate and Assembly both voted to approve it by a wide margin. If signed by...
View ArticleA caution for Oakland’s urban gardeners: lead in the city’s soil
In neighborhoods like West and East Oakland, you can drive for miles without passing even one grocery store. To fight food scarcity, a lot of neighborhoods have started to claim vacant lots and turn...
View ArticlePlans to build grocery store in West Oakland delayed by rising cost of property
Brahm Ahmadi of West Oakland has been trying for years to open the People’s Community Market—his planned 10,000 to 20,000 square-foot grocery store—in the middle of an Oakland food desert. The...
View ArticleBlack farmers gather in Oakland to discuss gentrification and the future of...
Black farmers gather in Oakland to discuss food deserts, the future, and the history of their community.
View ArticleOakland’s Acta Non Verba brings farm to table
Amid glowing rows of rainbow chard and plump purple eggplants, Kelly Carlisle, founder of Acta Non Verba Farm, is celebrating her sixth community harvest. The farm, which sits on a quarter acre of...
View ArticleNew restaurant in Oakland an oasis in food desert
An aging bald man waist-high in trash rummages through a dumpster outside Stay Gold Delicatessen. Residents walk by and yell, tell him to stop messing with junk, but he keeps sorting through it as if...
View ArticleMonthly food giveaway helps neighbors in East Oakland
Free food bag giveaway helps neighbors in East Oakland.
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