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People's Grocery is a 501©(3) nonprofit organization founded in 2002 by residents of West Oakland, CA, a low-income, inner-city community faced with severely limited access to nutritious and healthy foods, a lack of nutritional knowledge and limited capacity to meet local food consumption needs. With a vision of addressing local health disparities while providing employment and training opportunities for low-income residents and bolstering the regional food system through rural-to-urban connections, People's Grocery was founded with the mission of building a local food system that can improve the health and economy of the West Oakland community. People's Grocery promotes the concept of "food justice", an assertion that access to healthy foods is a human right and that no one should be prevented such access because of economic or social constraints or geographic location. We run 2 urban community gardens, a greenhouse and a 2-acre farm in Sunol which produces organic produce for low-..

Primary location: Oakland United States