Food
City and county leaders joined with members of Richmond’s growing urban farming community to discuss ways to keep West County communities at the forefront of the movement toward locally-grown foods.
In North Richmond, a community farming project may be the answer to providing healthy choices to residents who have long lived in a “food desert.”
When we first visited Richmond’s Seed Library in June last year it was a fresh idea popularized by its coordinator, Rebecca Newburn, and other garden-lovers volunteers. Today, exactly one year from its launch in May 2010, the library has between 350 and 400 users.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has scaled back the monitoring of radiation in milk, drinking water and rain, saying data shows radiation levels related to the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant are consistently declining. Richmond’s California Public Health Laboratory has led the state’s air and milk testing efforts.
Scientists in Richmond are the state’s first line of detection, conducting radiological tests to monitor whether the partial meltdown of nuclear reactors in Japan poses any threat in California.
Meet the B.ay A.rea D.erby (B.A.D.) Girls Roller Derby league.
North Richmond is alive with community gardens.
A few blocks up the road from Rosie the Riveter national park, cookies, brownies, and fruit bars are whirling around in convection ovens at Zoe’s Cookies & Other Delights. You can find Zoe’s Cookies at places like Berkeley Bowl; but most of the company’s baked goods are shipped directly to businesses that serve or sell them to clients and workers.
This hen spent Thanksgiving alone, strutting the streets of Richmond.