FRESH: New thinking about what we’re eating
COME SEE FRESH THE MOVIE
RSVP at the Facebook Event Page:
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=298018025674
March 13, 2010
Where: Regeneration Church, 238 E 15th St. Oakland
FREE VALET BIKE PARKING
Time: 6pm – Doors open for
Art Show "DIGEST", Food Vendors, CSA Info booths
7pm - Show starts
Wath the trailer: www.freshthemovie.com
Enjoy food from Oakland vendors like Taco Grill,
proudly serving Niman Ranch Beef in Fruitvale.
Meet the Farmers:
Sign up for a CSA that delivers fresh food in your neighborhood
like Eatwell Farm featured on the History Channel
or Shooting Star located only 40 miles from Berkeley.
Participating Vendors and Organizations:
Eat Well Farm - Farming organically in the Sacramento Valley since 1993. Voted Best Local Produce Delivery Service/CSA in 2008 by the San Francisco Bay Guardian Best of the Bay.
Signing up new CSA members
Shooting Star CSA - Small scale, local, wonderful. Top quality produce is our pride, and
growing it is our joy. Local food security is our civic duty. Our mission at Shooting Star CSA is to provide our customers with nourishing, nutritionally dense vegetables and melons that are the
best they’ve ever had! Signing up new CSA members
Farm Fresh to You - Currently over 6,000 families are participating in our family farm's CSA, Farm Fresh To You. By joining our CSA these families are connecting directly to our farm and receiving regular deliveries of nutrient rich, mouth watering, organic produce delivered directly to their home or office. Signing up new CSA members
Tomatero Farms - Pick up a box of fresh, organic tomatoes grown in Wastonville, CA right in your own neighborhood! Or visit is at the Grand Lake Farmers Market every Saturday in Oakland. Signing up new tomato CSA members for summer 2010.
Phat Beet Farms - Providing equal, affordable access to organic fresh fruits and vegetables, grains and legumes to North Oakland families through wholesale pricing. Facilitates youth in leadership roles engaging their peers in healthy eating and nutrition discussions through fruit and vegetable sampling. Connecting small farmers to urban communities via the creation of farm stands and farmers markets in local establishments.
People's Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that develops creative solutions to the health problems in our community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods. Our mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community.
Middle school students from Oakland School for the Arts will be selling the
East Bay Eco Metro Guide , a fundraiser for the school and a great resource for local groceries, Farmers Markets, and CSA's. One lucky raffle winner will win a free Eco Metro Guide!
Earth Box - Our maintenance-free, award-winning, high-tech growing system controls soil conditions, eliminates guesswork and more than doubles the yield of a conventional garden-with less fertilizer, less water and virtually no effort.
Funk Town Farm - We are Funk Town Farm, a community garden located in the area known to locals as “funk town” in East Oakland. The garden was started in 2008 behind 219 East 15th Street at 3rd Avenue and two blocks up from Lake Merrit.
Regeneration Church - Regeneration Church has graciously offered its building for this community event. Regeneration is a group of believers in Jesus Christ who desire peace, well being, and opportunity for the people of Oakland. Regen believes in caring for creation and caring for its neighbors and is active in improving its neighborhood through community gardening, feeding the homeless, Tae Kwon Do classes for youth, and supporting neighborhood groups.
If you or your organization would like to participate as a volunteer, vendor or sponsor, contact Betsy Johnson, betsy.tyler@gmail.com
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