Eating Well on a Food Stamp Budget |
Nutrition assistance programs are vital to feeding more than 38 million Americans, and no one is a better spokesperson for their importance and transformative healing power than Rachel Bolden-Kramer. A health and parenting coach who has navigated the SNAP program first hand, she has devoted her career to supporting low-income communities and busy families in nourishing themselves through radical nutrition. In her Kickstarter-funded My Food Stamps Cookbook, she shares tips and recipes for creating simple, healing, plant-based meals on any food budget. In anticipation of CalFresh Awareness Month this May, we spoke with Rachel about making the most of food stamp benefits at the farmers market, getting kids excited about veggies, and reclaiming one’s health through fresh food. |
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| | Tickets Are Live for CUESA's Summer Bash! |
Join CUESA at the Ferry Building on June 9 for a spectacular evening of peak-season deliciousness and warm-weather delights, featuring unlimited food and drink from 45 top restaurants and 20 bars and wineries. Toast the vibrant food future we are growing together! Enjoy early-bird prices until May 3. |
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| | Foodwise Teens Are Back at the Ferry Plaza |
Local youth are building skills to sustain healthy lives and a healthy planet through CUESA's Foodwise Teens job training program. Visit our students at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market, where they'll be selling their school garden produce and flowers and handcrafted herbal teas, rosemary salt, and pickles, on Saturdays tomorrow through May 25. |
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| | Volunteer of the Month: Bruno Tojo |
Bruno Tojo is one of our exemplary volunteers who has devotes his time to supporting Foodwise Kids. He “was looking for a program that could join [his] love for cooking and science. Foodwise Kids does that while educating students that cooking and sustainable behavior are healthy and fun.” |
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| | Gaby Maeda of State Bird Provisions shares her recipe for silken tofu, made with Hodo soy milk and garnished with kimchi, snap peas, smoked trout, walnuts, and celery. |
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Ferry Plaza Farmers Market: Saturday, Tuesday, Thursday |
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New on Saturdays! Gavel's Farm
Gavel's Farm is now at the Ferry Plaza Farmers Market every Saturday with hothouse-grown tomatoes. Sergil and Tanya Gavelovskiy started leasing the Bruins Farm greenhouses in 2016 to grow vegetables for Northern California farmers markets. |
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Jack London Square Farmers Market: Sunday |
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This Sunday! East Bay Harmony Chorus
East Bay Harmony is a mixed a cappella chorus that offers an opportunity to all to experience the joy of singing in harmony with others. Come hear them for the first time at the Jack London Square Farmers Market to start off your Sunday morning! |
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Mission Community Market: Thursday |
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New! The Sharp Brothers
The Sharp Brothers is now at Mission Community Market offering knife sharpening every Thursday! In addition to knives, The Sharp Brothers has the ability to also sharpen garden equipment, scissors, wire cutters, sewing shears, lawn mowers, and salon scissors. |
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This is the most up-to-date info about this week's seller attendance at the time of publication. Please stop by the CUESA Info Booth for a market map or check online for any last-minute changes. Returning: Bariani Olive Oil, Capay Valley Meat Collective, Devoto Gardens & Orchards, Far West Fungi Kitchen, Nicasio Valley Cheese Company, Olinday Farms Out: Little Organic Farm, Mountain Ranch Organically Grown
Returning: Anna's Seafood, Country Grill, The Honey Ladies, The Sharp Brothers, Urban Organics Out: Beast Oakland, Ledesma Farms, Old Dog Ranch
Out: K&J Orchards, Snyders Honey
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Out: K&J Orchards |
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ABOUT US | FARMERS MARKETS | PROGRAMS | VOLUNTEER | DONATE
Ferry Plaza Farmers Market | Sat 8am-2pm | Tue & Thu 10am-2pm | 1 Ferry Building, San Francisco Jack London Square Farmers Market | Sun 10am-3 pm | Webster & Embarcadero, Oakland Mission Community Market | Thu 4-8pm | 22nd & Bartlett, San Francisco |
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