Best Practices in neighborhood-based urban food system actions: School gardens, farmers markets, policy, youth engagement, adult training, emergency access, healthy corner stores, home gardening, small farms.
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Shawn Harrison and Rangineh Azimzadeh Tosang: Collaborating to Create a Health Promoting Food System at the Neighborhood Level
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Episode 1 Shawn Harrison, Co-Founder of Soil Born Farms, and Rangineh Azimzadeh Tosang of Solh Resolutions International, speak candidly about how change makers in Sacramento strengthened their food system by working together to improve food access, production, and education in south Sacramento neighborhoods. Listen as they share how community orga…
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Episode 3 Karen Strach of Sacramento Food Bank and Family Services provides an in-depth look at re-imagining traditional food bank and pantry services offered to residents in south Sacramento. Listen as she speaks about lessening the stigma attached to accessing free food, a successful fruit-tree gleaning project, and what it took to build a county…
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Episode 4 Alchemist Community Development Corporation connects people to land, food, and opportunity and tried an innovative approach to increasing access to healthy food for people living in food deserts. Listen as long-time employee and Operations Director, Davida Douglas, shares their roller-coaster journey of working with corner store owners to…
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Amber Stott: Creating Systemic Change through a School Garden, Salad Bar, and a Whole lot of Collaboration
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Episode 5 Food Literacy Center founder, Amber Stott offers a lively discussion about the impact of organizations collaborating together at an elementary school in Sacramento to improve the health outcomes of students. Listen as she talks about the layers of programming and advocacy that community organizations can do to transform school policy and …
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Chanowk Yisrael: Transforming Neighborhood Yards into Edible Landscapes and Building Collective Power Along the Way
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Episode 6 Yisreal Family Urban Farm founder, Chanowk Yisreal is a visionary leader determined to empower his Sacramentan neighbors by digging up front and backyards and transforming them into beautiful edible landscapes. Listen as Chanowk explores what it means to grow your own food, know your neighbors, build skills, and feed it forward as a way t…
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Episode 2 Oak Park Farmers Market Manager, Joany Titherington of NeighborWorks Sacramento discusses the tumultuous journey of starting a farmers’ market despite naysayers and obstacles in a Sacramento neighborhood that has been historically deprived of resources and battles on-going gentrification. Listen to her story of collaboration, advocating f…
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The debut trailer is here for the Food for All Podcast. Healthy Food For All is a collaboration of community members and organizations working together to improve food access, production, and education in South Sacramento. Our goal is to support the community's vision for a healthy and just food system. We do this by partnering on events and sharin…
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