Sunday's Tale: a post from the past
Just
three days ago on Sustainable diary we wrote of the cool song FoodFight, by Earth Amplified and with today's story we really recognize
how people need for being more conscious about our food and food
systems.
Until
a few years ago West Oakland, a neighborhood situated in the
northwestern corner of Oakland - California, had 53 liquor stores and
no grocery stores at all. The community had the nearest supermarket,
with a full produce section, at one hour's walk away.
In
the video we can see James Berk, a local inhabitant, explain that for
this lack is diet used to consist of Fritos, Cheetos, and Doritos,
and not much more.
But
in june 2009 with the opening of Mandela Foods Cooperative the thing
started to change. It is a worker owned grocery store (Berk is
became one of them!) and nutrition education center that brings
healthy, local produce to the neighborhood, and even delivers healthy
food to local corner stores.
Mandela
Foods Cooperative is one component of Mandela Marketplace's FoodEnterprise Network that builds a local food system and
entrepreneurship opportunity for residents in West Oakland, and
establishes a model to catalyze a local food economy within the
inner-city.
They
purchase from and support small scale farmers, local and cooperative
businesses, non-GMO growers, organic producers and fair trade
organizations. They carry an array of pesticide free, organic whole
foods and grocery items.
So
if food kill more people then guns for the moment the situation here
is save.
More
info
website
Mandela Foods Cooperative
website
Mandela Market Place
Photo
credit © Mandela Foods Cooperative
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