The 4th Annual San Diego Food Justice Event
to take place in City Heights April 9 & 10
On Saturday April 9th and Sunday April 10th, hundreds of people from across San Diego will come together in City Heights to attend workshops, share knowledge, and discuss the sustainability, accessibility, and health of our food system in San Diego and around the world.
Healthy, sustainable food is necessary for our planet and our lives, yet it is quickly becoming a hardship for people to afford and find. Our supermarkets are stocked with “modified food products” shipped from every corner of the globe. Our economic policies favor large-scale farming over small, local farms. But a movement is building in response, and one of its most dedicated voices is right here, in San Diego.
The San Diego Food Justice Event will provide a forum for the community to mobilize, educate, and inspire. Workshops, speeches and discussions center around issues as far ranging as The Farm Bill, DIY fermenting and canning, turning your lawn into a vegetable garden, identifying edible native plants, migrant farm worker’s rights, how to live and eat more sustainably in your daily life, and much, much more.
The Event is organized by a coalition of community members closely connected with groups such as International Rescue Committee, San Diego Sustainable Roots Project, San Diego Food Not Lawns, Activist San Diego, Slow Food Urban San Diego and Food Not Bombs.
It is free and open to anyone who would like to attend. The event will also include live entertainment, discounted parking, free and discounted meals, kids’ activities as well as two keynote speakers: City Heights Urban Farmer Bilali Muya, and People’s Produce Project member and community leader Diane Moss.
Press Contact
Amy Lint
San Diego Cultivating Food Justice
2228 52nd St.
760-936-7756
sdfoodjustice.org
sdcfjc@gmail.com
