Learn more about what our County is doing for our Food System: An assessment and roadmap for the development of a comprehensive Food, Restaurants, Agriculture, and Health Access Initiative
In March 2020, Veggielution launched Eastside Connect, a program through which we distribute fresh produce to low-income East San José residents who are experiencing the brunt of the COVID-19-related shutdowns. While Eastside Connect was initially launched as a direct response to the COVID-19 pandemic, it has quickly become a central strategy for us to connect people from diverse backgrounds through food and farming. The vision for the program covers many important goals:
Demonstrate more innovative and climate-resilient methods of growing, processing, and distributing Veggielution produce,
Explore ways that an urban farm operation can further increase economic mobility of East San José residents.
Meet the unserved need to build sustainable, local, even neighborhood-level, food systems that value lived experience and prioritize opportunities for historically impacted communities to lead and innovate.
Further Veggielution’s role as a culinary and community centerpiece that celebrates East San José by bringing diverse cultures and residents together to promote economic development, cross-cultural exchange, and shared learning opportunities at Emma Prusch Farm Park.
Shape public dialogue about food systems and the environment by connecting people to the land and food, to each other, and to diverse cultures across the barriers that divide us.
East San José residents as well as visitors and volunteers (that’s SVBC!) from many other areas to find a shared space for conversations on systemic change through intentional leadership development and community organizing.
Veggielution’s Eastside Connect program serves more than 250 people per week through farm boxes and our onsite farm stand. You can help pack the farm boxes and also deliver them by bike!
Do you enjoy the outdoors? Love riding your bike, supporting food justice and the environment at the same time? Sign up to deliver farm boxes on the first Saturday of every month for Veggielution’s Eastside Connect program.
Our food system doesn’t serve all communities, but it should.
JOIN US as we build an alternative and more just food and transportation system.
