A local collaborative project, the Food Recovery GIS Map, has been featured in an article by Esri! This highly collaborative project is a partnership between Palomar College, San Diego Food System Alliance, and the North County Food Policy Council. Over the last few years, students have mapped food waste data for 10 cities in our
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Save the date: #GivingTuesday 2018 is November 27th! We’re proud to be a part of a global celebration of giving. Stay tuned for our campaign plans and how you can make a difference this #GivingTuesday!
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Guest post from Amanda Bejerano-Ligato, Leah’s Pantry Nutrition Educator In the early 80’s, Harvard Psychologist, Dr. Ellen Langer, conducted a study with a group of senior men (70+) which became know as the Counterclockwise Study. Dr. Langer boarded the group in a hotel decorated as if the year were 1959. During the five day period, the group
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This is the second in a series of posts profiling the residents who serve on the Feeding Potrero Catering Team. Over the past year and a half, this team of Potrero Hill Terraces and Annex community members, under supervision of Leah’s Pantry staff, has bonded over a love of good food and a desire to
“Now I love to cook… and I can’t stop cooking!” Read More »
We are so excited to share this piece written by one of our favorite facilitators, Ellen Garcia. This story documents Ellen’s experience facilitating a cooking class at an SRO in San Francisco. It provides an illustrative, and at times humorous, glimpse into our work, the colorful lives of residents, and the challenging living conditions within SROs. By Ellen
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As some of you may have heard, Ralph Cooper, also known as our Slow Cooker Chef, passed away on September 27, 2016. Ralph was an inspiration to our organization and came to represent the work we do in SROs in the Tenderloin, SOMA, and Mission neighborhoods. Ralph was known as the Slow Cooker Chef because
