We are joined by Nikki Henderson, the Executive Director of People’s Grocery. People’s Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health problems in the community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods People’s Grocery can be found online at peoplesgrocery.org.
Topics of discussion include the history of People’s Grocery, the concept of a mobile market, the importance of urban gardens, the profitability of selling fresh produce in urban areas, the “elitism” of local food, and of course, food justice.
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2 responses to “Episode #82: Food Justice”
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Just downloaded loads of the podcasts. The titles look very interesting and I’m looking forward to hearing them.
Thanks for everything that you do Frank, it keeps me in touch with the real world. Agricultural and energy security are simply the most important issues in our world today and your programs are a very good promotion for all these issues and more.
I’m Probably very much behind with the times but I found this book online that I thought the AgroInovations community may be interested in called ‘Sustainable Energy — without the hot air’. Ive read the first chapter and a few write ups and it looks very good.
it can be downloaded free as a PDF from
http://www.inference.phy.cam.ac.uk/sustainable/book/tex/sewtha.pdf
I’m Sure everyone knows about it now but just in case it passed over the radar I thought I would point it out.
Once again Thanks for everything you do, I’m sure you don’t get anything like enough praise.
All the Best Trevor
What a load of bureaucratese. I had to turn it off after the 67th use of the word “community.” Communities don’t do anything, individuals in them do. Also, if it needs to be subsidized and dies as soon as it’s not, then it’s not a good business venture. Period. Try to do something positive with your own money. Playing “Government Helper” with other people’s money is a waste of time.