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Did you know that the City of East Palo Alto is in the process of developing a new park on the bay?  Cooley Landing is a 9-acre peninsula at the end of Bay Road with amazing potential to be a place of recreation, education, and conservation in the community of East Palo Alto.  

Contact: If you have any questions or comments, contact Lily Lee, Project Manager for Cooley Landing, at llee@cityofepa.org, or email Cooleylanding@cityofepa.org

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With many hoping to plant seeds that will result in school gardens sprouting on their campuses, hundreds of school teachers, administrators, parents, students and volunteers flocked to North Hollywood, Saturday, for the 2nd Annual Los Angeles School Garden Resource Fair.

"I applaud the hundreds of educators, students and parents who attended the resource fair because they understand the educational value that campus-based school gardens bring to our children," said Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) Board Member Julie Korenstein, who addressed the crowd and encouraged educators to launch school gardens on their campuses.

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.

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A community mobilizes to launch its own farmers' market

by Veronica Sudekum

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.

Governor Gregoire Signs Local Farms-Healthy Kids Law: State of Washington becomes national leader in trend for better food choices

By: Tom Geiger
Publication: Washington Environmental Council
Published: 03/27/2008

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

Help guide our work to transform California’s food system

“Food Advocates Tell Pelosi: This Valentine’s Have A Heart.
Give Us A Food and Farm Bill We’ll Love”

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.