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Dr. John Boyd, president of the National Black Farmers Association speaks CNN

April 24th
10th Congressional District Congressmen Dennis J. Kicinch calls for justice for Black farmers.

April 22nd
Mo' Better Food Featured on theroot.com
An Earth Day Solution For Urban Food Deserts
By: Frank McCoy

May 12th
Accepting vendor applications for the Mo' Better Food Market.
Application form here

May 12th
Review our most updated crop list and prices for June, July, and August. The produce is grown by the African American farmers of California.

EVENTS
June 19th -

The Mo' Better Food Market opens at 7th Street and Markets
July 4th - Tribute to Frederick Douglass

Mo' Better Food is developing a food system that will not only increase access to healthier foods, but will also create jobs within the community.

We call our mission and strategy -building Healthy Economics.
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David Roach receives Profiles of excellence award from ABC news
DID YOU KNOW?
According to the 2007 U.S Census, the African American population in California is 6.7%. (2,450,444).
According to 2007 Agcensus, African American farmers make up less than 1/3 of 1% of all the farmers in California (around 370 farmers in total).

Who will supply healthy food for the African American commmunity?

We asked this question in 1996 at the Mo' Better Food Conference in San Francisco. The Mo' Better Food Conference brought together Black farmers, urban gardeners, church leaders to answer the above question.

We thought naturally, African American farmers should supply healthy food in our neighborhoods. But we really wanted to raise the topic to leave the Mo' Better Food Conference with a community agenda.

Where are the Black farmers?

How many do we have? What do they grow? These were the questions raised during the conference and we left in pursuit to answer.

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 "Pick a fruit. Feed a child. Plant a seed. Feed a nation.'
 

Our Vision is Healthy Economics™

Over the years, high schools, have developed a culture of generations that share pride in that school and the community it resides within.

We believe the role of the institution, can expand from the individual accomplishment of the student, to the general accomplishment of the community.

Therefore, when a student graduates and receives that diploma, along with it, comes "community benefits."

One of the benefits of being a graduate of ones local high school, is the opportunity of being a member of the high school Alumni Association.

Since most of the alumni typically reside near the school, we believe through alumni associations, a community can increase its ability to sustain itself utilizing its pool of recent and not so recent graduates.

Flash Back Bay presented by FAM (now McClymonds alumni)

For example, when we first started the organization FAM (Friends and Alumni of McClymonds High School), we knew of a long legacy of McClymonds alumni in just about every arena and wanted to connect this great past to the current student body.

FAM has since dissolved into being the official McClymonds High School Alumni Association consisting of close to a thousand alumni.

Along with the increased number of alumni, has come an organization that meets consistently with the Oakland Unified School District to cooperatively support the development of future leaders.

Healthy Economics believes, the Alumni Association model, gives students a special role model. Not only is the alumni famaliar with the challenges of graduating from high school, but is also usually someone who has also had to overcome the streets surrounding the school.

Our vision is to see this partnership of alumni and fellow students expand beyond the schools gates into the community.

The third step of the Healthy Economics Campaign, building the Intergenerational Enterprise has the mission of creating businesses within the community that provide for the basic needs of the community.

The Intergenerational Enterprise is the governing aspect of social ventures deemed needed and possibly profitable for a community. In short, the community operates like a human body. The body consists of several organs as a community consists of several institutions.

The Intergenerational Enterprise seeks to align these institutions to agree on working together to sustain the food system of the community.

Find out more about our programs here.
 
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