The Central Coast Small Farmer Rancher Fisherfolk Forum
October 26th, EconAlliance and SBCFAN bring a full day of events for small farm / ranch business stakeholders and supporters.
The 2024 Food Justice Microgrant Program Awardees.
The 2024 Food Justice Microgrant Program seeks to address inequities and vulnerabilities in our local food system.
Wild Farmlands Foundation
Project: Wild Farmlands Scholarship Fund – Youth Agroecology Education Scholarship Fund to help cover transportation costs, ensuring all students can access these valuable educational experiences. Region: Countywide wildfarmlands.org
Momma’s Soul Food Fusion
Project: Soul Food for All – to teach community members how to grow and cook southern produce, improve access to culturally significant foods for African American students, and integrate Soul Food into the local food scene. Region: Countywide linktr.ee/guidancemoon
Rock Front Ranch Products
Project: Collaborative California Native Elderberry Growing Project for Socially Disadvantaged Students. Region:North County www.justjujubes.com
Gotti’s Garden
Project: Gotti’s Garden – to maintain soil health, increase biodiversity, and ecosystem resilience to promote local food production, job creation, and cost savings for farmers through organic certification, business licensing, and insurance. Region: South County www.instagram.com/gottisgarden/
Pioneer Valley FFA
Project: Improving Food Justice and Cooperative Work Experience Opportunities for Agriculture Education Students – expanding and increasing student involvement, providing equitable access to healthy food, and addressing the systemic issues underlying food insecurity. Region: North County www.pvhspanthers.org/
Awakening Giantz
Project: Nourish & Thrive – Project: To support and respond to the expansion of monthly dinners to cultural food and nutrition education, procurement, peer-to-peer learning, and shaping a community of support for foster youth, kin and foster parents, and former…
True Nature Society
Project: Cuyama Valley Food Action Network Planning Grant – to harness the community’s existing agricultural knowledge and skills and address systemic obstacles for LatinX and indigenous peoples hindering local agricultural potential, such as limited land access, poverty, and language barriers.…
Plowshare Alliance
Project: Transition to legal Cooperative structure – to establish a legal cooperative structure for this grain hub, to include new and under-resourced farmer-members with minimal risk, and providing a formal, unified voice in advocacy. Region: Countywide
