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
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
Project: Collaborative California Native Elderberry Growing Project for Socially Disadvantaged Students. Region:North County www.justjujubes.com
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/
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/
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…
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.…
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
Project: Expansion of the Three Sisters Four Directions Garden, an initiative led by and for Indigenous students at the University of California, Santa Barbara, in an effort to rematriate land, develop relations between all beings and grow culturally appropriate foods…
