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Wellness Journey February 28th

February 20, 2026

Join us for our February Wellness Journey at the Japanese Friendship Garden

When: Saturday, February 28th – 7:45am to 9:30am

Where: Japanese Friendship Garden at Balboa Park – 2215 Pan American E Rd, San Diego, CA 92101

What: This Wellness Journey event will bring participants to one of the most beautiful gardens in San Diego, the Japanese Friendship Garden in Balboa Park. This garden showcases a 12-acre living exhibition of plants and flora native to Japan and San Diego. The mission of this cultural space is to foster a relationship between humans and nature, offering a peaceful retreat with Japanese simplicity and serenity.

We will begin the morning with a gentle Qi Gong flow to promote balance and inner peace, followed by a walk through the garden to connect with its calming beauty. Breakfast snacks and refreshments will be provided.

Free event, but registration is required – use the RSVP link below. Please note, Project New Village will pay for parking for event attendees.

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Outdoor Health & Wellness Expo Nov.23

October 28, 2025

A Wellness Expo Like No Other!

Join us for a free community event at Market Creek Plaza that celebrates nature and wellness, with movement workshops, meditation practices, self-care services, plus much more! This event is open to everyone with no registration needed.

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For more information on the Outdoor Health & Wellness Expo, contact Izzy Rosado at izzy.rosado@projectnewvillage.org.

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Season 2, Ep.2 – A Wellness Journey

September 30, 2025

PROJECT: Good Food

Season 2, Ep. 2 – A Wellness Journey

Join us as we travel out to Boulevard, California to visit Big Rock Ranch, a 46-acre ranch owned by Southeastern San Diego native Avery Wynn, as part of Project New Village’s monthly Wellness Journeys. These community wellness getaways treat volunteers of the organization to different outdoor locations throughout San Diego County to connect with nature, community, and meditative wellness practices to help de-stress and hopefully find balance within daily life. In this episode, we hear first-hand how these Wellness Journeys are impacting community members in a positive and profound way.

Hosts Brandon S. Johnson and N. Diane Moss are joined in the studio by Izzy Rosado, PNV Program Assistant who coordinates the Wellness Journeys, and Danny Kaffer, PNV Volunteer Coordinator who organizes and maintains the extensive list of PNV community volunteers.

Now Streaming!

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2025 Food Justice Soirée is Back!

September 16, 2025

Join Us October 21st for the Food Justice Soirée

On Tuesday, Oct. 21 join us at the Mt. Hope Community Garden for our annual Food Justice Soirée friend-raiser event! In observance of National Food Day, this nighttime garden event features live music, drinks and beverages, good food, local art, and celebrates those who support equitable access to good food!

All food and drinks included in the ticket price, and this year all proceeds will go towards supporting our People’s Produce Mobile Farmers Market! Tickets $25, on sale now – join us!

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2025 Health & Healing Summerfest

July 23, 2025

Health & Healing Summerfest is Back!

Join us on Saturday, August 23rd for our 4th annual Health & Healing Summerfest event at ECC. This event features community resource vendors, fun family activities, a main stage with wellness presentations, mindful movement workshops, food and refreshments, and a free swag bag full of goodies and wellness resource tools for registered guests.

This is a free event, but be sure to RSVP in advance to receive a complimentary catered lunch and event swag bag!

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Earth Day Celebration April 19th

April 2, 2025

Join us for a special garden gathering that celebrates the community and the planet!

Our Earth Day Celebration will be taking place Saturday, April 19th at Mt. Hope Community Garden from 9am to 1pm. This family friendly event features garden activities, arts & crafts, music, food and drinks, plus we’ll be giving away over 300 fruit and vegetable plants as well as 100 bags of soil! Ready to start that spring garden?  WE HAVE YOU COVERED!  Please join us in celebrating the planet!

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Mardi Gras in the Garden

February 10, 2025

Celebrate Fat Tuesday at the Garden!

Tuesday, March 4th, 6pm to 8pm, Mt. Hope Community Garden

Our annual Mardi Gras in the garden is back! Join us for a festive gathering in the garden celebrating Fat Tuesday and the Mt. Hope Community Garden space! Featuring live music, complimentary beverages (alcoholic and non-alcoholic), delicious food, and New Orleans-inspired dancing and festivities – all in a beautiful nighttime garden setting! Don’t miss this friend-raiser event!

TICKETS - $20
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MLK Day of Service Jan.18th, 2025

January 3, 2025

Contributing to Dr. King’s Vision of The Beloved Community

January is the time of year for reflection and re-commitment to bringing good into the world. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. popularized the term, “The Beloved Community” during his lifetime of activism. His vision of the Beloved Community was a community in which everyone is cared for, absent of poverty, hunger, and hate.

We at Project New Village embrace his vision in our work. The Good Food District is a community driven effort, developed by Project New Village, a non-profit, serving as the backbone organization for a cross-sector collaboration of partners to do regenerative place making in food insecure neighborhoods in Southeastern San Diego (SESD). The intent of our collective impact is to create food-oriented developments, build upon existing assets and securing needed resources, and to support a strong sense of community and infrastructure for an improved neighborhood-based food system chain. 

Project New Village has begun to take steps towards dismantling the historical impact of racism and moving forward with an equitable vision/plan for our community food system. Our goal of improving fresh food access in SESD is part of a broad-based movement to building social equity giving way to healthy neighborhoods.

On Saturday, Jan 18, 2025 from 9am to 12pm Project New Village will host our annual MLK Day of Service at the Mt. Hope Community Garden, 4269 Market Street, San Diego CA 92102. We invite our community to join us for a community workday where we gather to plant seeds of thought and actions for the new year. This is an inclusive event for all ages, featuring  cultural expressions and refreshments.

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Our Winter Solstice Celebration Dec.21st

December 12, 2024

Join us for a Winter Solstice Urban Odyssey on Market Street!

Instead of our normal Community Work Day on the third Saturday of the month, we have a VERY special event planned for our community on December 21st! Please join us for our Winter Solstice Celebration, what we’re calling an Urban Odyssey on Market Street as we invite attendees to visit our new Community Wellness Garden (4800 Block of Market St. 92102).

We’ll begin at 9am at the Mt. Hope Community Garden, then guests can either walk or ride on our provided shuttle to the new garden space where we’ll have an ancestral acknowledgement, some wellness and hands-on activities, plus snacks and refreshments. Then we’ll journey back to the Mt. Hope Community Garden where Tree San Diego will be distributing 100 FREE TREES to community members! Let’s celebrate the solstice and commemorate this momentous occasion together at our new community growing space!

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Celebrating Our North Star

December 2, 2024

2024 FLH CELEBRATION

Join Us At Our Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Celebration Dec.5th, 2024!

The 13th annual Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Celebration is the primary fundraising event for Project New Village, and 2024 marks the 30th anniversary of our organization! We’re pulling out all the stops this year, including hosting the event at a new venue – Park & Market downtown. This brand new, modern space is the perfect backdrop for an evening filled with recognition and celebration!

This ticketed event will feature delicious food, drinks, our Food Equity Awards presentation, music, dancing and much more… with 100% of the proceeds going towards our Build The Village campaign!

Buy your tickets now, and reserve your spot at this momentous year-end celebration!

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Our North Star

Fannie Lou Hamer was born on October 6, 1917 in Montgomery County, Mississippi, the 20th and last child of sharecroppers Lou Ella and James Townsend. She grew up in poverty, but rose from humble beginnings in the Mississippi Delta to become one of the most important, passionate, and powerful voices in the fight for human rights.

Mrs. Hamer succumbed to breast cancer in 1977, but not before leaving behind a legacy of activism that continues to resonate today. It is her legacy that has inspired and informed Project New Village’s current efforts to create an Equitable Food-Oriented Development project in Southeastern San Diego. Modeled after Mrs. Hamer’s Freedom Farm project, The Good Food District is a place-making effort centered on urban agriculture and creating access to healthy locally-sourced good food throughout our neighborhoods.

OUR FUNDRAISING GOAL

We’re Raising $50,000 Towards Building The Village in SESD

100% of the proceeds from this event will go towards building The Village, an innovative community food hub that will be located in Mt. Hope. The Village will forever improve the food landscape in Southeastern San Diego by uplifting hyper-local food growers, improve access to healthy food, and create a community connection to health and wellness through a revitalized food system that benefits all.

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Our 2024 Food Equity Awardees

Delicious Food

Enjoy an assortment of delicious, plant-based plates catered by the Morse High School Culinary Program. Featuring locally-sourced produce, this cuisine is sure to impress both in flavor and in the culinary skills of these chefs-in-the-making!

We’re proud to uplift these students in their culinary journeys and to support such a wonderful program and opportunity that Morse High School provides.

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Complimentary Cocktails

We’ll have Tito’s Vodka on hand providing different adult beverage options at their event pop-up bar. Non-alcoholic beverages will also be available at the event.

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Come Celebrate 30 With Us!

Not only is this an important fundraising year for us, but 2024 signifies a very special milestone in our history – the 30th anniversary of our organization! This year represents big changes happening within our organization – we’re acquiring more growing spaces in SESD as part of our Rooted Resources, our People’s Produce Mobile Farmers Market truck is now regularly serving twice as many sites as last year with even more on the horizon, and most notably we began predevelopment on building The Village, which will transform our Mt. Hope Community Garden property into a multi story mixed-use community food hub, the first of it’s kind in Southeastern San Diego!

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Our 2024 Sponsors

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