Current News & Upcoming Events
Growing Places 2009
San Diego Roots inaugural
art-for-farmland festival!
Friday, July 31 &
Saturday, August 1
Little Italy
Welcome to our table!
We invite all of San Diego’s visual artists to participate in helping us create a sustainable food system in San Diego! Everyone living in San Diego County can make art, in any style and in any media, as long as it has a theme of food and/or farm.
What you make can be anything -- a celebration of food you love, an expression of your thoughts about food, food history, food crises, or food future, or something that looks rad -- as long as it has to do with food! Donate it to SD Roots Sustainable Food Project and we’ll showcase it for the duration of Growing Places. Food and Art lovers will bid on the work, and all the proceeds from the silent auction will go directly to the Roots Farmland Fund.
La Milpa Organica Farm Open House | Escondido
Saturday, July 18, 3 to 10pm
9928 Protea Gardens Road, Escondido California 92026
Potluck & Wood-fired Pizzas @ 6pm | Family-friendly Film after dark
This is a perfect opportunity to visit this little agricultural gem. Farms are nice places to hang out, and what Barry Logan has created here is a perfect example of how beautiful things happen when a community embraces a farm -- and a model of what we intend Willow Glen Farm to be.We'll serve freshly made, wood-fired pizzas. After dark we'll show a family-friendly, inspiring movie under the oak trees. Rain cancels.
Please bring something tasty to share. Organic food is appreciated; consider providing a dish description: organic, vegetarian, vegan etc.
Click here for a map to
La Milpa Organica Farm
Click here to go to the
La Milpa Organica website
Click here for a blog post about one foodie's experience at a La Milpa Open House.
Easing into Slow Food Look Reporter Mike Lee's account of a recent open house at La Milpa Organica Farm in Escondido and its celebration of San Diego's bounty. SignOnSanDiego, July 15, 2008.
Roots 2008 Progress Report
On November 1, 2008, the IRS granted San Diego Roots Sustainable Food Project its 501(c)3 charitable organization status. This means we are now able to directly recieve your tax-deductible contributions. To read about this and all of our work in 2008, click here to view the Roots 2008 Progress Report.
Why the farming crisis has everything to do with the economic crisis
"We live off of what comes out of the soil, not what's in the bank. If we squander the ecological capital of the soil, the capital on paper won't much matter... For the past 50 or 60 years, we have followed industrialized agricultural policies that have increased the rate of destruction of productive farmland. For those 50 or 60 years, we have let ourselves believe the absurd notion that as long as we have money we will have food.
"If we continue our offenses against the land and the labor by which we are fed, the food supply will decline, and we will have a problem far more complex than the failure of our paper economy. Remember, if our agriculture is not sustainable then our food supply is not sustainable... Either we pay attention or we pay a huge price, not so far down the road. When we face the fact that civilizations have destroyed themselves by destroying their farmland, it's clear that we don't really have a choice."
Wes Jackson, co-founder of The Land Institute, in an interview with Alternet
Click here to read the full Interview