The Good Table will launch in 2024 as the nation’s first combined pay-what-you-can cafe, commercial incubator kitchen, retail nursery, community gathering space, and arts venue, a cooperative formed in partnership with The Good Table UCC. This multi-use community center will provide a pay-what-you-can cafe, a retail space for local makers and artists, a commercial kitchen for urban farmers to make value-added products, and a venue and gathering space for workshops, organizing, and events. All of these offerings are being created in a neighborhood that does not yet have a coffee shop or a community gathering space.
Planting Justice Farmer's Market
Planting Justice is now running the first ever farmer's market in El Sobrante, CA, directly in front of The Good Table Cafe and Nursery. We are uplifting and creating easier access to entry for vendors from QTBIPOC, women, and immigrant communities as well as cooperatively owned businesses. Our market will continue every Sunday from 10-2pm at 5166 Sobrante Avenue (at Valley View) in the heart of the El Sobrante Triangle district. You can find out more about our vendors here.
New Life for a Historic Nursery
For over a hundred years the Adachi family grew a successful nursery business and helped to incubate new Japanese-owned nurseries despite the internment camps and racism that they faced over generations. When the Adachi Florist and Nursery in El Sobrante went out of business, they approached us, but we didn’t have the funds to buy the place. They sold to a gas station developer who intended to demolish the building, but because of community opposition, the lot sat idle. Meanwhile, Pastor Melinda McClain of the Good Table UCC was developing a beautiful vision for a pay-what-you-can cafe. Planting Justice was so impressed by her vision and values that we formed a cooperative called the Good Table LLC and bought the location together in 2019. We intend to keep alive the critically important local history of Japanese nurseries and create a home for arts and sustainability for the East Bay for generations to come.
The Impact
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Help Us Grow the Food Justice Movement.
Below is a current list of things we need to further our mission. If you have interest to volunteer or other things you wish to donate that you think might further our movement, don’t hesitate to let us know.
Updated: April 11, 2024
Material & Services
Pier shoring
Short term backhoe loan and operator time (100 hours)
Landscape designer hours with experience in MWELO
Equipment
Forklift for nursery and aquaponics - Off road big wheels
Skid steer/Bobcat type machine, ideally with track wheels
Large double axle trailer (for future bathroom at the nursery)