On Saturday, April 9, and Sunday, April 10, 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.
4th Annual San Diego Food Justice Event
Saturday and Sunday, April 9+10, 2011
University Ave at Fairmount, City Heights, San Diego
Advanced registration closed on Friday, April 8 at 10 p.m.
You can still register at the event. It's free!
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 workers’ 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.
