New guide supports local food system - Eureka Times-Standard

Cooperation Humboldt’s “Community Food Guide” is available now at newsstands throughout Humboldt and Del Norte counties, as well as at the North Coast Co-op, Eureka Natural Foods and the North Coast Growers Association booth at local farmers markets.

The “Community Food Guide” is an annual magazine that supports access, equity, education and empowerment in the local food system. This year’s edition is packed with useful information about why local food is important, how to find it and how one can grow their own garden on the North Coast.

2021 marks the first year of publication by Cooperation Humboldt. The magazine existed previously as the “Local Food Guide” by Locally Delicious. This year’s edition includes directories of local food producers as well as expanded editorial content spotlighting issues surrounding food justice and social justice plus lots of hands-on information about gardening in this bioregion. There is also inclusion of all content in Spanish online and a stronger focus on providing critical resources for free and low-cost food to low-income community members.

“Equity was a big focus for us when we decided to take on this project,’’ said guide editor Tamara McFarland. “We set out to highlight Indigenous voices and explore connections between race, class, gender identity and food. We believe that access to nutritious and culturally appropriate food is a fundamental human right, and that communities should have the right to determine how their food is produced and distributed. This guide is an important tool for sharing that vision and bringing it to fruition.”

Cooperation Humboldt’s food team also provides Little Free Pantries to facilitate neighborhood sharing, converts unused front lawns into productive gardens, empowers inexperienced gardeners to learn to grow food through their free mini gardens, plants community fruit trees, and offers a variety of educational opportunities relating to food production. Learn more at cooperationhumboldt.org.

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