See How We’re Building Food Sovereignty

We have very exciting news! We thankful to United Healthcare and United Healthcare Empowering Health for a $140,000 Empowering Health grant to provide capacity-building and design services to community-driven food access projects at Pimlico Market & Café, Central Kenilworth Avenue Revitalization CDC, and Capital Market.

In this work, we strive to increase access to healthy food by expanding capacity of Pimlico Market & Café, Central Kenilworth Avenue Revitalization CDC, and the Capital Market. We’ll also create a toolkit to help future projects get off the ground.

These projects address food and nutrition challenges in varied ways, including:

1. Local fresh food production (urban farms, community gardens, etc.) 2. Food distribution (delivery and pickup of free or reduced cost foods) 3. Accessibility in healthy food priority areas (affordable, healthy, and culturally appropriate food retail) 4. Community resilience

These approaches were identified as important in both jurisdictions prior to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, which only made clearer the urgent need for investment in resilient, local, sustainable food systems.