Reconnecting Foodways is reconnecting the National City and Southeast San Diego foodways through mapping out and celebrating community gardens, urban farms, and other nutritious food spaces. Through this process, we also hope to identify both existing and potential local and regional resolutions, ordinances, policies that can advance sustainable urban agriculture and food systems. Our project will help to develop long-term strategies to strengthen our capacity to organize, resource this work, and engage the community in their local food system.

Their project is a grand vision for Food and Housing Justice that is leaning into Land Access as a means for community liberation. They are attempting to collectively purchase (or be granted) a plot of land to grow food and house a community member or small family. The property will be cooperatively owned amongst the people involved, including the ones living in the home and those growing the food; the food will be utilized to share with the local BIPOC community; and the land will be cultivated by aspiring Queer/BIPOC farmers in the area. They intend for this to be a model for future projects that will create affordable housing for working class community members in a city dealing with rapid gentrification.

Workplace Climate Collaborative aims to advance a campaign focused on improving the working conditions and rights for low-wage workers and their households in the cannery, farming, greenhouse, landscaping, meat, nursery, packinghouse, poultry, restaurants, and snow plowing industries in Illinois.

This campaign will involve policy advocacy, community organizing, and education on labor rights. Their objective is to create safer work environments, promote fair wages, and ensure these workers have access to resources regardless of immigration status, empowering them to defend their rights and well-being.