In the News

2024- NOURISH reimagines the food businessto try to prevent food deserts

2022- Local youth focus on bringing environmental equity to their communities

2022- San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative Mini-grant Program

2021- Can Edco get San Diego to cut food waste in half? (San Diego Reader)
2020- New Virtual Exhibit Highlights The Lives Of City Heights Youth (KPBS)
2018- Out of the Food Dessert (San Diego Reader)
2018- San Diego Opens Door To Small-Scale Community Composting (KPBS)
2017- Promoting Healthy Places, Healthy People, and Rooted Communities through a Bioregional Framework (Pezzoli, NIH)
2017- Urban Agriculture and Food Disparities (California Agriculture)
2015- UCSD Studies Community Garden (The San Diego Union Tribune)
2015- UC President Napolitano Visits San Diego Community Garden (KPBS)
2015- An urban farm and education center blooms in a formerly blighted San Diego lot (Los Angeles Time)
2015- City Heights Youth: If I Had $265M (Speak City Heights)
2014- A Former Food Desert Now Feeds a Community’s Spirit (UC San Diego News Center)

"[The youth] have something to say and they need somebody to listen to what they have to say”

— Famo Musa, an organizers of City Heights Youth for Change and an assistant teacher at the AjA Project

“It’s not going to take just one person to make the change, you have to get everybody involved”

— Sitey, a City Heights Youth for Change member

“I’m looking at [the OVGG] as a hub of change, where the community can come in and get whatever information they need to learn about healthy eating and healthy living and building a healthy environment,”

— Karemah Alhark, an active community garden participant