VeggiePalooza East Bay

The Coronavirus pandemic generated food production and access challenges that can and will recur in future crises. The best way to strengthen food security is for communities to scale up local food production. If we wait for government initiatives, we leave ourselves vulnerable. It's up to citizens to lead the way.

Please help grow this model food security, sovereignty, and justice project created and run by local citizens.

Since VeggiePalooza East Bay began in March, 2020, Castro Valley residents have distributed tens of thousands of vegetable seedlings, as well as seeds, earthworms, biochar, supplies, and other starter garden supports to hundreds of new local gardeners. We have reached many more with gardening and food justice education in our social media spaces, educational events, and hands-on experiential work sessions. In our second year, we decentralized, by supplying several new neighborhood distribution hubs with seeds, seedlings, and supplies. This year, we begin our focus on creating tools for local communities all over the world to easily create and run their own local food gardening education and support programs.

We invite you to help us continue growing VeggiePalooza beyond San Francisco's East Bay. We would like to grow this project into a resource that inspires and equips others to start, expand, or support backyard gardens, micro-farms, community gardens, and seed, seedling, and produce swaps. Such projects can permanently strengthen food security, community connections, physical and psychological well-being, environmental awareness, and local community self-reliance and interconnection.

Please donate what you can to VeggiePalooza. And please share this fundraiser on Facebook, Twitter, Linked In, and other social media. Thank you, in advance, from the bottom of our veggie-loving hearts.

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