Year 2021

Panoramic image of farm and rows of crops and Food Forward boxes

Partner Spotlight: Baby Root Farm & McGrath Family Farm

Baby Root Farm is nestled just off of the busy 101 Freeway in Camarillo. Born in 2017, the farm focuses on regenerative, organic practices on their newly expanded 20-acre plot. The farm sits on the grounds of the historic McGrath…

Celia Cody-Carrese
February 26, 2021

Agency Spotlight: SPIRIT of Santa Paula

A lot can happen when neighbors step up to help each other. Today we’re highlighting our partner SPIRIT of Santa Paula, an organization fighting homelessness and feeding neighbors in Ventura County. In 2002, Kay Wilson-Bolton, a local real estate agent and…

Celia Cody-Carrese
February 18, 2021

5 ways to lower your “foodprint”

With the new year comes new resolutions! Every year, we look at how we can improve our relationship to food, making choices that are better for us, workers, and our environment. Each of us makes decisions every day about what…

Celia Cody-Carrese
February 9, 2021

Framing Food Justice: Crenshaw/Baldwin Village Mutual Aid Program

“We don’t look at food justice as an issue in itself. It’s not something that exists in a bubble—it’s connected to so many different systems of oppression.” This is a point that Joyti Chand, a founding member of the Crenshaw/Baldwin…

Celia Cody-Carrese
February 9, 2021

“Our collective power fills these boxes”

Meet our volunteer of the month, Brenda Rees! Brenda has been volunteering with Food Forward for several years and is a trained Pick Leader, Glean Team Leader, and Community Ambassador. As a Pick Leader, Brenda is an active and passionate…

Celia Cody-Carrese
January 29, 2021

Three woman wearing face masks stand in front of a car trunk filled with produce boxes

Agency Spotlight: DAYS Long Beach

We’d like to introduce you to one of our wonderful partners who we love to see come by The Sprout, Food Forward’s latest addition to the Produce Pit Stop! It’s DAYS Long Beach, an organization that has been working to…

Celia Cody-Carrese
January 27, 2021

Reflections on Food Forward's 12th Anniversary

As Food Forward celebrates our twelfth anniversary this weekend, our Founder and CEO, Rick Nahmias, reflects on the journey…. At the start of this weekend I was a bit downbeat, accepting that our annual ritual would not take place: a…

Celia Cody-Carrese
January 14, 2021