Growing Plants, Growing Community: Tour & Talk with Planting Justice

Join us for a tour, talk & Q&A session with employees of Planting Justice, an East-Oakland based non-profit and urban farm that provides sustainable living-wage jobs, food access, and holistic programming for communities impacted by mass incarceration.

This will be an opportunity for attendees to hear how Planting Justice prioritizes and supports formerly incarcerated and system-impacted people while successfully running an organic nursery, 4-acre propagation orchard, Food Sovereignty Youth Leadership program, and expanding into a pay-as-you-can cafe, and 3-acre Aquaponics Farm & Training Center. In addition, Planting Justice is in the process of transferring ownership of its nursery land to the local Ohlone community, through the indigenous women-owned Sogorea Te’ Land Trust, and can talk through that process with us.

If you're curious about urban farming, combatting food apartheid, non-traditional business models like pay-as-you-can, workforce re-entry programs, the indigenous land-back movement, or generally getting involved with a cool food non-profit, this event is for you!

The $5 cost to attend will secure your spot and be donated directly to Planting Justice.

*Note, there may also be an opportunity to volunteer after the talk and get our hands dirty on the farm, details forthcoming*

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