Category "Food Sovereignty"

Celebrating Our Season of Recognition

October 6, 2024

Kicking Off Our Season of Recognition

On  October 6th, 2024 Project New Village held a gathering at the Mt. Hope Community Garden to commemorate the 107th birthday of Fannie Lou Hamer – a civil rights icon; a forerunner in the food sovereignty movement; and a role model for transformative leadership. 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.

From now through the end of this year we will be hosting events and gatherings in recognition of those inspired by Mrs. Hamer’s legacy, all building up to our 13th annual Fannie Lou Hamer Legacy Celebration on December 5th, 2024 where we will be awarding our Food Justice Awards to community members whose actions exemplify her spirit of activism. This is a special celebration year for us as not only is it our 30th anniversary as a food justice organization, but all proceeds for this event will go toward building costs for The Village, a multi-story mixed use community food hub in Mt. Hope. Predevelopment has already begun with construction slated for 2025, so our goal is to raise $50,000 by the end of this year towards this cause. Please join us in celebration and recognition – visit the link below for more information!

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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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