Food Justice

The Social Justice Learning Institute

What is Food Justice?

Food Justice is communities exercising their right to grow, sell, and eat healthy food. Healthy food is fresh, nutritious, affordable, culturally-appropriate and grown locally with care for the well-being of the land, workers, and animals. People practicing food justice leads to a strong local food system, self-reliant communities and a healthy environment.

SJLI Food Justice Efforts

Our organization is committed to addressing inequality in the food system, we impact this issue in several ways: Direct provision of affordable, healthy, locally grown, organic, culturally relevant food through both our gardens and orchards but also through partnering with organizations that have higher yield such as the South Central Farmer's Association to bring healthy food options to our community (including CSA boxes). Additionally, we work directly with the City of Inglewood on policies that can help to transform the local food system, create greater sovereignty and re-imagine our city-space in innovative ways that offer greater opportunities for a localized food system. We outreach and educate not only youth in our community but also adult community members through workshops, environmental literacy courses and hands-on opportunities in our gardens and orchards. Finally, we're developing a business structure for added-value products to create a worker-owned, profit sharing and a cooperative economic development strategy.

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This is wonderful to see.... thank you for sharing your story and how you are changing the future. Keep on growing!