Food Distribution

Sharing What We Grow

We distribute free food to Oakland schools, free produce to Sobrante Park residents from our nursery each Friday, and free green smoothies to low food access places like housing encampments and Fruitvale Bart. Twice a week, youth education participants and paid youth interns serve 100s of fresh smoothies made from food they’ve grown in their school gardens and the Mother Farm. We’re working on a mobile farmer’s market truck that will make 15 weekly stops from Oakland to Richmond to demonstrate our holistic model for building local food systems by and for people living in food deserts.

Better Neighborhood, Same Neighbors

Sobrante Park, where many of our staff are from, has no access to organic produce, no green space, and very few trees. In partnership with the City of Oakland and through the Better Neighborhood Same Neighbors Initiative, we go door to door to plant free fruit trees and design block-by-block planting plans to increase healthy food access and urban canopy cover.

Planting Justice Mobile Farmers Market

Announcing the Planting Justice Mobile Farmers Market! Stocked with fresh organic fruits and vegetables sourced from the Planting Justice Mother Farm and Farmers Market in El Sobrante, Planting Justice buys from local producers and makes it accessible to the community. All this local and organic produce is available for purchase at Sliding Scale, which means you pay what you can!

Right now our distribution locations are on Mondays at:

1. Moose Lodge Richmond 550: 660 Appian Way, El Sobrante; 9:30-11:30 AM Click here for more info
   
2. Dewey Academy, La Escuelita, Met West: 1111 2nd Avenue, Oakland; 2:00-3:30 PM Click here for more info

Stay tuned for more locations TBA!