California Food & Justice Coalition

:: June 2009 Newsletter ::

IN THIS ISSUE:

:: CFJC News & Events

:: Member of the Month: Hayward Community Gardens
:: Events and Announcements
:: In the News
:: Fundraising & Grant Opportunities
:: Jobs & Internships
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CFJC News and Events

:: San Bernardino, Organizing for Policy Change. August 6. Join CFJC and area partners for a day-long Grow Local workshop on combining
community organizing and policy advocacy as a way to further efforts to rebuild a just, local food system. 10am-4pm, $20 ($10 for members),
scholarships available. For more info and to register, please contact us at info@cafoodjustice.org.

:: Savor Summer with CFJC. August 29 -- Save the Date. As a follow-up to the immensely popular dinner last summer, CFJC will partner again with
San Francisco's Market Bar to host a delicious dinner event. Tickets are $55. 6pm reception, 7pm dinner. More details on menu, featured speaker and
silent auction to follow.

:: Find the California Food and Justice Coalition on Facebook and become a fan! This is a great way to get the latest updates on Grow Local events
and trainings. Just click on the link below.
<http://www.facebook.com/s.php?q=cali&amp;init=q&amp;sid=7dce86119d5245c4de2c63a57d08a33e#/pages/California-Food-and-Justice-
Coalition/82280994569?ref=ts>

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Member of the Month

This month, we profile Hayward Community Gardens

Hayward Community Gardens is a landmark in the city of Hayward, incorporating in 1977, expanding to seven garden sites throughout the city and
then consolidating on one 5.3 acre site in 1983. The gardens are located at 25051 Whitman Street under the PG&E towers on a section of the Eden
Greenway. The purpose of the gardens has always been to provide gardening space mainly for Hayward residents, with the initial target group
being the retired and elderly. Today, the garden has 210 plots and a membership that includes nearly 700 people with extended families from the
East Bay Area. Hayward Community Gardens also share our presence and purpose at the Hayward Farmers’ Market and are steadily building
support for our program within the community. The traditional practices of self-sufficiency, families growing their own food and medicines, have
transformed individual plot spaces into an urban farm and multi-ethnic microcosm.

Our goal is to grow lives and healthy thriving communities by nurturing and promoting understanding, tolerance and peaceful life. The community
gardens is a social and mental health agency, a safe environment away from a very chaotic world, a sanctuary, a place of prayer and reflection, a
classroom, and an opportunity to affect change on our small piece of earth by taking down barriers of race, class, religion, language and
economics around the focus of growing, sharing and eating food. Every year, we produce thousands of pounds of food for our families and for our
low-income community. We are an all-volunteer-run non-profit organization that operates 7 days a week from daybreak until sundown. Over the
years, we have had our struggles. We are constantly striving to strengthen cohesion and internal solidarity within our membership in order to better
advocate for ourselves. Currently, we receive little support from our local government despite the incredible model of food sovereignty we provide.
We want to become a united force that is able to demand the support of our local leaders. The Hayward Community Gardens does not have a
website, but we are always willing to share information about what has been successful for us, and we love to hear ideas on how to overcome the
barriers we face. Please contact us by phone at 510-537-8901 or email at hcgardens@gmail.com

If your organization is a CFJC member and would like to be profiled in a future newsletter, send us a message at info@cafoodjustice.org
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Events and Announcements

:: New North Oakland Farmer’s Market connects the small-scale growers who need markets with low-income neighborhoods that need healthy food.
Phat beets produce, in partnership with Oakland Children’s Hospital, recently launched a small farmers market at the hospital (52nd and MLK). The
Tuesday market (2-7pm) features produce from JP Organics and J and J Farms, two small-scale growers, and serves area residents and the hospital’s
obesity clinic. For more info: www.phatbeetsproduce.org

:: The Center for Ecoliteracy hosting 2 events in Aug:

· Aug 13-15: Systems Thinking, Education, and the State of the World with Fritjof Capra.
· Aug. 14: Climate Change and the Connections that Bind us with David W. Orr.

Both events will be held at the LEED-certified David Brower Center, in downtown Berkeley. For more info: www.ecoliteracy.org/seminars
<http://www.ecoliteracy.org/seminars>

:: Time for Lunch Campaign. With the Child Nurition Act reauthorization approaching, Slow Food USA is calling on its members and supporters to tell
Congress that it’s time to serve our real children real food at school. As part of the campaign, Slow Food is organizing eat-ins on Labor Day, Sept. 7.
For more info: www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch <http://www.slowfoodusa.org/timeforlunch>

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In the News

:: Urban Agriculture as a Career Path- Wayne State University Sustainable Food Systems Education and Engagement in Detroit (SEED Wayne) is a new
program that teaches students about the need for an assessment of the food system and it relationship to the health of the local economy. Read
more about the program here http://www.commondreams.org/view/2009/06/16-2

:: Affordable Health Insurance Elusive In Rural U.S. - An NPR piece tells the story of two farming families who's financial insecurity is largely related to
the health care system. Read more here http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105299368

:: Urban Farming, a Bit Closer to the Sun A recent NYT article details the quickly expanding movement to grow food on rooftops. SF's Graze the Roof,
a project of Glide Memorial Church, is featured. Read the article here: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/dining/17roof.html?_r=2&ref=dining
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Grants and Fundraising Opportunities

::National Gardening Association Announces 2009 Healthy Sprouts Awards Program Deadline: October 17, 2009 The awards support school and
youth garden programs that teach about nutrition and hunger issues. For more info: http://www.kidsgardening.com/healthysprouts.asp

:: National Gardening Association Announces Continuation of Youth Garden Grants Program Deadline: November 2, 2009 NGA annually awards
Youth Garden Grants to schools and community organizations with child-centered garden programs across the United States. 100 grants, paid as
gift cards to Home Dept and Gardening with Kids Catalog, are available. For more info: http://www.kidsgardening.com/ygg.asp

::National Gardening Association Invites Applications for 2009 Hooked on Hydroponics Education Grants Deadline: September 18, 2009
The program will provide thirty-six schools with equipment and learning materials for hydroponics projects that involve at least fifteen children
between the ages of 6 and 18 during the 2010 school year. For more info: http://www.kidsgardening.com/grants/HOH.asp

:: Grants Encourage the Family Farming System Deadline: August 1, 2009

Farm Aid supports organizations that work to maintain a family farm system and that promote solutions to the challenges facing rural communities.
Learn more at: http://www.farmaid.org/site/c.qlI5IhNVJsE/b.2723745/k.9953/Grant_Guidelines.htm

:: Calling All Kids- Video Contest! – Tell us why you are a Victory Grower- Food Independence Day is asking kids to create a video describing why
they are a Victory Grower and how that affects who they want to be and what they want to do in the future. For more information visit:
http://foodindependenceday.org/post/116892037/telavision
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Jobs and Internships

::National Resources Defense Council is seeking a Sustainable Food and Agriculture Consultant to work in SF Bay Area-: The consultant will develop
sustainability metrics to enable market-place reporting of sustainable performance in the food sector, expand NRDC's capacity to contribute to
sustainable standard-setting processes and work with NRDC staff to develop new initiatives. Applicants should submit a cover letter, resume and
writing sample to: Suzanne Vyborney (svyborney@nrdc.org). Applications will be accepted until July 6, 2009.

:: Center for Land Baed Learning is hiring a coordinator for the Sacramento Valley SLEWS (Student and Landowner Education and Watershed
Stewardship) program. Deadline to apply is July 6. For more info: http://docs.google.com/View?id=dg5kmrhm_7dcbz5sfv

::CCOF Is Recruiting For Three Staff Positions-Program Specialist, Development Specialist and Executive Assistant. Please Submit resume, cover letter,
salary history and needs, writing sample(s) by email to steve@ccof.org or fax to (831) 423-4528. For detailed job descriptions:
http://www.ccof.org/employment.php

::Share Our Strength’s Operation Frontline® Americorps Position- Share Our Strength, a national organization working to eliminate childhood hunger,
is hiring an Americorps member in LA for its Operation Frontline, a program focused on training kids, teens and adults on nutrition, cooking and
household budgeting. For more details, visit: www.strength.org/about/jobs

:: Real Food Challenge Summer Student Leadership trainings. Real Food Challenge invites allyoung activists concerned with agriculture, nutrition,
social justice, climate change, sustainability, and the health of our communities and economy - to join us at a Real Food Student Leadership Training.
July 1 registration deadline. For more about the West Coast training: http://realfoodchallenge.org/blog/real-food-summer-leadership-trainings

:: Sustainable Community Gardens is seeking an Executive Director. SCG is a community-based 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to the renewal of
local, sustainable food systems throughout Silicon Valley. Our local sustainable farms, gardens and integrative educational programs empower
youth and adults to grow food and inspire them to form communities dedicated to healthy living and environmental responsibility. Deadline for
applications is July 31. For more info: http://sustainablecommunitygardens.org/

:: Farm seeks entrepreneur to manage lavender operation. Potrero Nuevo Farm, Half Moon Bay, CA - http://potreronuevofarm.org/ - has 525 very
healthy 2 yr. old lavender plants. We need to focus on our vegetable and fruit production and seek someone willing to take over the lavender
operations - maintenance & weeding, watering, harvesting, drying, and marketing. The plants are on drip irrigation and we can offer use of a drying
room. You take over the operation and we share the profits since we've paid for the plants, irrigation, drying room facility and care to date. For more
info, please contact us at info@potreronuevofarm.org
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The California Food and Justice Coalition is a statewide membership coalition committed to
the basic human right to healthy food while advancing social, agricultural and environmental justice.
 We collaborate with community-based efforts in California working to create a socially just, ecologically
and economically sustainable food supply. We envision a California food system in which all activities,
from farm to table, are equitable, healthful, regenerative, and community-driven.

California Food and Justice Coalition

2530 San Pablo Avenue, Suite F, Berkeley, CA 94702
Phone: 510-704-0245
FAX: 510-548-8896
http://www.CAFoodJustice.org <http://www.cafoodjustice.org/> <http://www.cafoodjustice.org/>
email: info@CAFoodJustice.org

CFJC is a fiscally-sponsored project of the Ecology Center