from top left to bottom right "the Beet Crew":Brett, Zac, Jen, Toveo, Adri, Brent, max, Jonathan, Rachel (not pictured)
Phat Beets Produce is a food justice collective. The collective was started in North Oakland in 2007 as a guerrilla produce stand in a North Oakland park. We now support two certified, clinic based farmers’ markets, one youth led school farm stand and community nutrition hub, and a youth market garden in partnership with a local hospital obesity prevention program. As a collective, we strive to support social businesses and small farmers and farmers of color.
We believe in the core principals of food justice:
- Healthy Food is a Human Right
- What is lacking is not food, but the political will to fairly distribute food regardless of the recipient’s ability to pay.
