Resources

Educational Materials/References:

McCormack. Review of the Nutritional Implications of Farmer’s Markets and Community Gardens: A Call for Evaluation and Research Efforts.

Heim S. A Garden Pilot Project Enhances Fruit and Vegetable Consumption among Children.

Herman DR. Effect of a targeted subsidy on intake of fruits and vegetables among low-income women in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program fro Women, Infants, and Children.

Life and Death from Unnatural Causes. Health and Social Inequity in Alameda County.

Websites:

OBUGs- Oakland Based Urban Gardens

People’s Grocery- local organization that works to improve food access for West Oakland

Oakland Food Connection- local organization fighting the good fight!

La Via Campesina- international movement of peasants, small- and medium-sized producers, landless, rural women, indigenous people, rural youth and agricultural workers.

Food First, Institute for Food and Development Policy

Planting Justice- Grow food, grow jobs, grow community.

Book Recommendations:

Stuffed and Starving, Raj Patel

Plan B 4.0, Mobilizing to Save Civilization, Lester Brown

Black Nature: Four Centuries of African American Nature Poetry, Camille Dungy

More to come…