Mo' Better Food is Healthy Economics.

 Develop your network with your farmers! 
If you do not have any...then create them. 
Feed yourself healthy fruits and vegetables

by growing them, marketing them, and selling

them.  Create your own jobs, in the process

of feeding yourself.

                         Hotep
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The Mandela Farmers Market
Every Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.,

 purchase fresh fruits and vegetables directly

 from small farmers.  Located on Mandela

\Parkway and 7th street (right off the West Oakland,

\ BART station).

 

 

If you would like to purchase produce for your business, review and fill-out the

order form below.

Order Form

If you would like to become a vendor at the Mandela Farmers Market, fill-out

the application below.
Vendors Application

  
         

 

Farms

  

Restaurants

  

Grocery Stores

  

Schools

  

Farmers Market

  

Urban Garden

  

Training Center

  

Churches

  

Cold Storage

  

The above illustration gives an overview of the healthy economics campaign in the Bay Area (mainly Oakland, San Francisco, Berkeley, and Richmond).
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A. Mandela’s Farmers Market
B. McClymonds Educational Complex- Culinary Arts, and woodshop.
C. African American Farmers of California
D. Maharba Market
E. Farmers Market in Fresno

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1.  Emeryville High School-

2.  Guerilla Café  ( restaurant in Berkeley see San Francisco Chronicle)
3.  Van Hook Farms in Yolo county – 200 acres
4.  Shelton Elementary (K- 5)
5.   6000 sq ft warehouse

6.   Blackberry Bistro Restaurant in Oakland on Park Ave
7.   Oakland High School Vaamp Program

8.   Maxwell's ( Restaurant and lounge)
9.   Alliance of West Oakland Developers
10. Urban Garden ( 833 34th street in West Oakland)
11. Farmer Brown ( restaurant in San Francisco see San Francisco Chronicle)

12. True Vine Baptist
13. Actsful Gospel Church

 The above diagram gives an overview of the types of projects, clients, etc, Mo’ Better Food is involved with.  Our five year goal is to develop a food system that strengthens the above organizations to establish healthy economics in the low-income communities of Oakland.  The letter’s ( B, C, D,E ) are the next steps Mo’ Better Food will take to increase attendance and community participation at the  Mandela Farmers Market and establish the type of economic development that makes low –income communities self -sufficient.  Since our goal is to increase access to fresh fruits and vegetables, we realize a farmers market (once a week) is not enough. Community residents need to have fruits and vegetables available every day. Community residents also need to have some ownership in the community they live.  The partnerships that we are able to create between predominantly Black colleges, the local high schools (along with their alumni Association) is what we term building Healthy economics.