COMMUNITY ACTION TEAM:
Marin City
- Community Co-Lead: Marin County Cooperation Team
- Nutrition & Wellness Program Lead Staff: Daeja Tillis
Marin City Community – Equitable Food System Priorities
- Community Gardens – revitalizing existing gardens and creating a community garden collective, including workforce training.
- Supporting Home Cooks and other food retailers in selling food for profit such as access to commercial kitchens, storage space, and workforce training.
- Obtaining and training Youth Health Educators to promote health, wealth, and economic entrepreneurship development.
Marin City Interview Results
- Unemployment, accessibility, and affordability are the largest barriers between community members and healthy eating.
- Food plays a role in creating health and wealth, which leads to self-sufficiency.
- Food businesses/jobs that leverage the community and create opportunities for creating wealth and economic opportunities would be helpful.
- Community food systems mean access to healthy and culturally relevant food which keep money circulating in the community and create self-sufficiency.
- Community empowerment means self-sufficiency, reparations through land and resources, and pride as being an asset to the greater community.
Food Production
Community gardening
Policies for land access to grow food
Food Transportation
Warehouse/ food hub for storing and accessing food
Food Processing
Start up for social enterprise restaurants.
Home catering businesses
Commercial Kitchen
Food Retail
Grocery store (Co-Op?)
Restaurants in plaza
Indoor/ outdoor market for home cooks
Farmer’s Market
Food Consumption
Health Educators
Food Waste
Composting program
Community Empowerment
Young people to help connect different organizations and health, economic, and wealth for entrepreneurship development
Economic Development
Ownership opportunities
Business start-up support
Training youth for agriculture and business administration
Recommendations for a Comprehensive Community Food System in Marin City
- Develop workforce trainings for co-operative ownership and social enterprises
- Support home cooks in selling food for profit
- Expand community gardening through securing land ownership
- Youth Health Educators to promote health, wealth and economic entrepreneurship development