Join us for a special garden gathering celebrating community and the planet! Our Earth Day Celebration at Mt. Hope Community Garden is a family-friendly event featuring garden workshops, information tables, food and beverages, music, and cultural sharing centering on environmental justice.
We’re partnering with Tree San Diego who will be at the event giving away 100 fruit and shade trees, as well as our PNV Growers Collective who will be distributing over 80 starter vegetable and herb plants!
The Village will be a two-story, mixed use facility dedicated to creating a vibrant, healthy space to connect community members with fresh, local foods and useful wellness practices. It will consist of a local fresh food market place, healthy prepared food vendors, a commercial kitchen for culinary classes, a community gathering space, and of course will still retain the beloved community garden space. The upstairs will be used as a headquarters office space for Project New Village, as well as office space for a mission-aligned business tenant.
Corporate, institutional and private donors who would like to contribute to our ambitious vision of building The Village can easily donate to our fundraising initiative.
Become a Perennial Member and donate just a little every month. Perennial Members help fund our day-to-day operations, such as maintenance at the Mt. Hope Community Garden, facilitating events and workshops, and operating our People’s Produce Mobile Farmers Market truck.
To serve as a catalyst for resident-led, community-rooted experiences that BUILD stronger neighborhoods; IMPROVE the neighborhood food supply chain; STIMULATE collective investment in better health; and MAXIMIZE the impact of investment to address social inequities.
By staying informed of our happenings and progress, you’re supporting the cause. We’ll let you know about our community garden work days, special events, and communal celebrations, and hopefully you can join us from time to time!
“Food really can be medicine, or it can be a weapon that prevents civic participation. If you’ve only got a few dollars in your pocket, and there’s just a bodega or a package store, you can get Hot Cheetos and blue drink. That really undermines your health, your ability to learn in school, your ability to parent, to be a citizen. And it’s intentional.”
“What I would rather say instead of ‘food desert’ is ‘food apartheid,’ because ‘food apartheid’ looks at the whole food system, along with race, geography, faith, and economics. You say ‘food apartheid’ and you get to the root cause of some of the problems around the food system. It brings in hunger and poverty. It brings us to the more important question: What are some of the social inequalities that you see, and what are you doing to erase some of the injustices?”
“Every aspect of our lives is, in a sense, a vote for the kind of world we want to live in.”
"The nation's fiscal health is dependent upon the health of the next generation. When we consider the cost of inaction in a matter of national security, lives are at stake."
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N. Diane Moss
Managing Director
pnv.wellness@gmail.com
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