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N. Diane Moss Receives ‘Leaders in Belonging’ Award From Prebys Foundation

March 1, 2024

Prebys Foundation, the largest private foundation in the San Diego region, announced the recipients of its new Leaders in Belonging initiative. The effort provides unrestricted awards of $100,000 each to five community advocates working to advance inclusion, justice, and sustainability in the greater San Diego region. This annual award is designed to provide leaders with vital support that will allow them to continue their work and help them build movements for change.

N. Diane Moss, Managing Director of Project New Village is one of the five awardees. The award fund will be used to support organizational capacity building to create and operationalize “The Village”, which is our equitable food oriented development project. The Village will serve as a resiliency center for Southeastern San Diego. It will contain a neighborhood grocery store, healthier food eateries, a commercial kitchen, community garden and more.

As we make way for the future, we invite you to join our efforts to embrace food sovereignty and food justice in our neighborhoods!  Much gratitude to the Prebys Foundation!

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Social Justice

Expanding the Growers Collective

February 21, 2024

Izzy Rosado, Program Assistant, Project New Village

The Grower’s Collective is a network of neighbors that are passionate about gardening and growing food for our Southeastern communities. The goal of this project is to create health and wellness in the region, to form a community of practice through urban agriculture. 

How exactly do we do this? Project New Village hosts meetings for growers to share information and resources – demonstrating the power in learning from one another. To support our hyper-local food production, we purchase produce from neighborhood growers and provide financial and technical support to those that want to expand their growing efforts (or start growing!).

Karen Wynn found that her macadamia nut trees were producing more than she could harvest. In turn, dozens of pounds would go wasted every season. Now, we are purchasing these macadamia nuts to be sold on the Mobile Farmer’s Market truck, where customers get to put a name to a locally grown food source.

Another proud moment for the grower’s collective includes the expansion of WenMor Urban Farm, where PNV provided support for a tree planting event. Ian Moreland and Nichelle Wentz put 26+ bareroot trees in their backyard to start a food forest in the heart 

of Southeastern San Diego. 

If you would like to learn more on joining our Good Food District map, everyone is welcome to attend our meetings on the 2nd Saturday of the month at the Mt. Hope Community Garden from 9:00 a.m. to 10:30 a.m.

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Food Sovereignty

Community Climate Action

February 4, 2024

Amy Lint, Climate Solution Strategist, Project New Village

Environment and climate change directly affects us, by the air we breathe, the food we buy, how we live and get to work each day. With community organizations like ours, the city of San Diego now has a Climate Action Plan which outlines steps toward a more sustainable place to live, work and play.

You might wonder how you can contribute to this climate friendly vision? One of the strategies is Clean Communities. Now that we have received a green bin at our place of residence, food scraps and organic material can be recycled!

Recycling food scraps and other plant material plays an important part in keeping harmful methane gases out of our atmosphere. At Mt. Hope Community Garden, we take food scraps and carefully manage them to make heated piles of compost. The food scraps and plant materials break down and turn into rich nutrient compost material. Once the organic materials have gone through the heated process, we now have rich soil amendment for growing our food plants.

Learn more about how to recycle food scraps at home, how to compost, or ask questions every 3rd Saturday at Mt. Hope Community Garden. Join in on hands-on composting demonstrations. We look forward to seeing you there!

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Environmental Justice