The Future of Foods Projects Presented at LA City Hall on Food Day 2017
Promote a Good Food Economy for All
Smart Stop: Plant-Based Convenience Store
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Hank’s Mini-Market: Convenience Store Transforming into a Community Arts Hub and Healthy Food Store in Partnership with Sweetgreen
The healthy neighborhood market network has been working with corner stores in south LA and Boyle Heights to offer more fresh produce and healthy food options. Hanks's Mini Market located on 3301 W Florence Ave, LA CA and has been transforming the community by providing its food resources to Sweetgreen restaurants.
http://goodfoodla.org/policymaking/healthy-neighborhood-market-network/
Create a Culture Shift
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These workshops involve new culturally appropriate recipes, ideas and business models for participants to take a part of.
https://www.facebook.com/pg/AcrossOurKitchenTables/reviews/?ref=page_internal
Eliminate Food Waste and Reclaim the Resource
LA Compost: Compost Hub Infrastructure Rendering and Interactive Compost Sifter Display
LA compost is a project that started in 2013 with volunteers that went to 4 near cities and started collecting any organic material (paper, food scrapes, laves, etc.) for decomposing purposes. These efforts later started growing to collecting materials form local schools, museums, restaurants, apartments and other are of the community. Currently, LA Compost is collecting material from 8 comminutes. The decompose is later distributed to local farmers in the community to use it for their new crops.
https://lacompost.org/about/
ReFeed America: ReFeed Donation Ladder a Showcase of Food Recovery App
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Eliminate