Food Justice

Food justice is about access to affordable, healthy, organic, locally grown and culturally relevant foods.

100 Seeds of Change

100 Seeds of Change

 

 

An initiative committed to building a healthy, beautiful, safe, and self-sustaining local food system by creating 100 community, school and home urban gardens throughout Inglewood, including backyards, parks and other available properties.

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SJLI on WHYHUNGER Facebook!

Submitted by doriebrown on Fri, 05/11/2012 - 1:05pm

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Show Me the Movement! by Megan Hanson

Submitted by dscorza on Sun, 03/06/2011 - 2:43pm

 

Our epidemic rates of obesity and related illnesses across this nation should be telling us - without a single doubt.  We need a new kind of nutrition education.

We need to UN-learn much of what has been forced down the rusty nutrition education pipeline by profit-focused food companies and the government organizations who get in bed with them.  If we expect kids to fight the current odds for one in three of them developing diabetes, we can't just hang the food pyramid and DRONE on about healthy food.

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Seeds of Change are Growing!

We launched a successful event this week marking the beginning of a healthy food movement in our community.  Check out this video to see one example of how our community works together to uplift each other!

 

 

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Our Impact

Food Justice Highlights

  • We currently serve 2500 students and community members through our community garden and food justice efforts.
  • Students and community members are taking food home, harvesting in gardens, creating and participating in events.
    Our students efforts helped feed families in need throughout the year.
  • We're developing a distribution network throughout the City of Inglewood and Los Angeles to deliver healthy food to families in need (currently have at least four sites including: Warren Lane Elementary, Didi Hirsch Mental Health Center, Morningside High School and LA Care)

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Food Justice Efforts

What is Food Justice?

Food Justice is communities exercising their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food. Healthy food is fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate and grown locally with care for the well-being of the land, workers, and animals. People practicing food justice leads to a strong local food system, self-reliant communities and a healthy environment.

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Empowerment Community Garden

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Research in Action

Using action research, Urban Scholars students experience humanizing education and receive encouragement for academic success. We believe our program provides opportunities for each student to go to the college or university of their choice while becoming change agents in their community.  We believe opportunities for academic development promotes their ability to be self-starters and their leadership, in turn, helps inspire others to achieve as well. Youth participate in activities that build community and add value to their environment through neighborhood projects and school beautification projects.

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Empowerment Community Garden Video Spot

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