Cultivating a healthy, sustainable, and just food system in San Diego County
Illustration by Ubaldo Riboni
Description: Over 30 species are commonly referred to as mackerels.
Availability: No designated season.
Taste: Firm and oily flesh, flavor and texture similar to salmon.
Nutrition: A good source of vitamin D, B vitamins and selenium. and omega-3 fatty acids.
San Diego Food System Alliance
Developing and maintaining an equitable, healthy and sustainable food system
If there’s one place where Anna feels confident, it’s in her home kitchen: patiently rolling out the dough for her pastel goreng crust, sauteing onion and garlic to fill her risoles, scooping generous helpings of macaroni panga for the guests she’s cooking for—sometimes friends, sometimes neighbors, sometimes her two grown daughters or her daughters’ young sons.
This month, we are on a mission to educate San Diegans about food waste through our Save The Food, San Diego! campaign. Throughout the month of September, we are teaming up with 31 San Diego area Ralph’s and Food 4 Less locations to teach shoppers about the significant impacts of wasted food, and share some simple steps we can all take in our homes and while we are grocery shopping to reduce food waste.
We aren’t holding the Food Waste Solutions Summit this year… but we are organizing something even more exciting!
SDFSA plans on releasing a more thorough summary of highlights from the Ag Census data for our county in the coming months, which will be one of several sources that will help inform our San Diego Food Vision 2030.
In the meantime, here are a few particularly insightful summaries from three respected agriculture organizations that we enjoyed reading.
A $220,700 grant awarded by CalRecycle indicates a serious state-level commitment to supporting SDFSA’s local food waste reduction efforts, and 14 exciting partnerships with major San Diego institutions demonstrates that our institutions and corporations are also stepping up.
Elly Brown
elly@sdfsa.org
San Diego Food System Alliance
Fiscally Sponsored By: Leah's Pantry (Tax ID: 20-5512442)
Mailing Address: P.O. Box 3185, San Diego, CA 92163
