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Collective Roots Supports the First "Carrot Run" to East Palo Alto
Collective Roots was the brainchild (and legs) behind the first Carrot Run to East Palo Alto. Wolfram Alderson and Marshawn Garner teamed up to make the special event possible.
Digging In
Collective Roots inspires a new wave of organic gardeners...
by Veronica Sedekum, April 16, 2008, Palo Alto Weekly
Enlightening the sometimes mysterious process of where food comes from and how it gets to the plate, East Palo Alto Charter School is doing more than serve fresh vegetables at lunch.
An Oasis in a Food Desert
A community mobilizes to launch its own farmers' market
April 16, 2008 Palo Alto Weekly
East Palo Alto hasn't had a supermarket within its borders since the early 1970s, but it does have two McDonalds — just 1.5 miles apart. Other dots on the fast-food map are a nearby Pizza Hut and Taco Bell Express.
To buy fresh produce, residents have to travel outside the city's boundaries or depend on the limited selections on corner stores' shelves.
Healthy Kids Law: Washington Leads the Nation in Food Policy
The work of Collective Roots was featured on “Finding Your Way Radio,” hosted by Charles Ivan King on KZSU, 90.1, 8:00 AM, Saturday, February 23rd. Collective Roots current efforts were highlighted, including the founding of the East Palo Alto Community Farmers’ Market this Spring (2008). For more information about this effort, please click here. We invite you to attend the California Food and Justice Coalition’s San Jose Region Member Meet Up on Tuesday, March 4th, 3pm – 7pm, at the United Way, 1922 The Alameda, San Jose, Room 107. Snacks will be served. Co-sponsored by Collective Roots, Conexions, Healthy Silicon Valley, the University of California Cooperative Extension Santa Clara County and the Center for Agroecology and Sustainable Food Systems “Food Advocates Tell Pelosi: This Valentine’s Have A Heart. Join A Speak-Out and Eat-In For A Fair and Healthy Farm Bill, Wed. Feb. 13th, 12pm at the UN Plaza Farmers Market, 1182 Market Street, San Francisco – near Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s office. January 1, 2008 -- Collective Roots is proud to announce that Laurie Bauer has been elected as President of the Board of Collective Roots. Laurie has been Board Member for over two years prior to serving as President. Congratulations to Bay Area Gardener Catalino Tapia from Collective Roots. Catalino was featured again in the San Francisco Chronicle for his work developing a scholarship fund to help struggling college students. Since he started the Bay Area Gardeners’ Foundation in 2007, the donations have come pouring in. Tapia's story was picked up by National Public Radio, the "CBS Evening News" and other national and local media. The foundation has received $137,060 since The Chronicle story appeared October 15, 2007. January 9, 2008 - The East Palo Alto City Council passed an urgency ordinance Tuesday evening imposing a six-month rent freeze. The unanimous vote was in the wake of a meeting late last week in which the emergency measure failed because only four of the council's five members attended the session and only three of those were in support of the measure. About 1,300 rents were hiked by landlord Page Mill Properties on Dec. 1, ranging between $36 and $150.
Publication: Washington Environmental Council
Published: 03/27/2008
Collective Roots Featured on Stanford's KZSU Radio Show "Finding Your Own Way"
California Food & Justice Coalition: San Jose Member Meet Up
Give Us A Food and Farm Bill We’ll Love
Give Us A Food and Farm Bill We’ll Love”
Laurie Bauer Elected to President of the Board of Collective Roots
Bay Area Gardeners' Foundation Flourishes
East Palo Alto Freezes Rents
