'Planting Justice' is building a local, sustainable food system to create thousands of green jobs and support community wellness.
OAKLAND, Calif. -- Healthy food, green jobs, and community wellness are blooming in East Oakland's Sobrante Park. And"Planting Justice" is at the root of these growing efforts to secure food sovereignty in the Bay Area.
"Sage, blue rosemary, fava beans, fig trees," rattled off Planting Justice nursery technician Simone Robinson."Look at this chard, it's beautiful." "As a high school student myself, I needed a job, and I was from a single-parent household where we were eating a lot of fast food, despite the fact that my parent had an associate's degree in culinary arts," explained Planting Justice Education Director Maya Salcedo.
Salcedo and Robinson are addressing structural inequalities and transforming the food system one garden at a time. Since 2009, the organization has empowered hundreds of people to grow their own food.
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