resources

Organizations

Groceries, Co-Ops, and CSAs

Local Farms

Knowledge

Planting Justice Urban Tilth City Slicker Farms Agroecology Commons Merritt College Acta Non Verba Oakland Leaf

Mandela Grocery Cooperative The DEEP Berkeley Basket CSA Beet Box CSA

Brown Girl Farms Bluma Farm Gill Tract Community Farm

Growing Change: A Journey Inside Venezuela's Food Revolution (watch on Kanopy with through your local public library account)

The mission of S.C.A.R.S., a project by Olivia Eng, is to foster healing through the intersection of dance, creative expression, storytelling, poetry, cross-cultural exchange, holistic practices and herbal medicine. ScarsArt.wixsite.com/scars

Brown Girl Farms on the core of what their farm is about: "Eating is so intimate. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you are inviting a person into your life,” a quote by Maya Angelou

References:

Méndez, V. E., Bacon, C. M., Cohen, R., & Gliessman, S. R. (2019). Chapter 10: Agroecology, Food Sovereignty, and Urban Agriculture in the United States. In Agroecology: A transdisciplinary, participatory and action-oriented approach. Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Penniman, Leah & Washington, Karen. (2018). Chapter 5: Feeding the Soil. In Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm's Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land. White River Junction: Chelsea Green Publishing.

Shiva, Vandana Dr. (2015). Seed Freedom - What is at Stake. In Seed Freedom: A Global Citizens‘ Report, Co-ordinated by Ruchi Shroff, Navdanya Elisa Catalini, Translated by Harriett Barham Natasha Louise Raisch. Florence: NAVDANYA International.

“Soil Health Management.” Natural Resources Conservation Service Soils, United States Department of Agriculture, https://www.nrcs.usda.gov/wps/portal/nrcs/main/soils/health/mgnt/#. Accessed 24 March 2021.

The Peoples Agroecology Process: Unlocking our Power through Agroecology. (2015).