Our mission is ending food insecurity in Bakersfield by:
- Providing fresh, affordable, locally-sourced produce to underserved families.
- Establishing direct-to-consumer and farm-to-family connections.
- Providing Bakersfield families with a direct link to the source of their food, and giving small farmers a direct link to their customers.
It‘s our basic right to choose the food we consume, as well as where and how it is grown. Community food sovereignty is reclaiming our power in the food system.
When we are free to shape our own food systems, food can be a tool for justice, health and environmental sustainability.
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Community food sovereignty focuses on people & communities based on the following principles:
- putting the right to sufficient, healthy and culturally appropriate food for all at the center of food, agriculture, livestock and fisheries policies.
- valuing all those who grow, harvest and process food, including women & family farmers
- bringing growers and consumers closer together so they can make joint decisions on food issues that benefit and protect all.
- respecting the right of growers to have control over their land, seeds and water and rejects the privatization of natural resources.
- valuing the sharing of local knowledge and skills that have been passed down over generations for sustainable food production free from technologies that undermine health and well-being.
- focusing on growing and harvesting methods that maximize ecosystems health and improve the resiliency of local food systems in the face of climate change.