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BIPOC Mental Health Awareness Month 2021
We’ve partnered with the National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI) Yolo County, our current Round Up recipient, to bring members of our community resources for BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) Mental Health Awareness Month. If you belong to the...
Environmental Justice for PFJ: BIPOC Communities Bear the Burden of Plastic Pollution
It’s Plastic Free July and we’re taking the opportunity to talk about environmental racism and the disproportionate effects of plastic pollution on BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) communities. While environmental racism refers to the disproportionate...
Fiery Ginger Farm
Fiery Ginger Farm West Sacramento Urban Farm The Farmers Fiery Ginger Farm is a West Sacramento Urban Farm. Shayne, from Stockton, and Hope, from Michigan, both worked in farms or gardens and teaching in grade schools. They are both graduates of the California Farm...
Plastic Free July on a Budget
Good news: Plastic Free July isn’t about being perfect, it’s about trying your best to make small changes that will benefit all of us! Whether you’ve decided to go plastic free for the rest of the month, or just for tomorrow, take the Plastic Free July pledge and join...
Pride was a Riot: A Short History of Queer Political Activism
In honor of Pride Month and in solidarity with our LGBTQIA+ and QTPOC community members, the Davis Food Co-op has donated $500 to the Sacramento Gender Health Center, a QTPOC-led nonprofit working to end systematic oppression and pathologization of transgender people...
Flying V Farm, New to the DFC
Welcome to the Co-op, Flying V! Flying V Farm is a new Davis Food Co-op vendor, thanks to the help of Kitchen Table Advisors. Flying V is a certified organic worker-owned farm in the foothills of the Sierra Nevada, just 60 miles from the Co-op. They work together to...
Celebrating Juneteenth
On the evening of December 31st, 1862, Black Americans gathered in homes, churches, and community spaces awaiting the New Year which would bring with it the freedom outlined in the Emancipation Proclamation. Black Americans, enslaved and free, called that night...
Racism and Bigotry in Davis
For many of us, Davis is an idyllic California community. We’re tightknit. We compost and recycle and use renewable energy. We have 37 parks, 65 play areas, 33 tennis courts, and an extensive system of greenbelts. We love live music and local beer. We have food...
New Nametags – Creating an Inclusive Culture
New Name Tags You will notice something new in the coming weeks: Pronouns on nametags. We enocurage staff to add pronouns to their name tags When gender-nonconforming, questioning, queer, non-binary, and transgender folks see pronouns on nametags, it lets everyone...