One in Ten
San Diego’s One in Ten Food Coalition works to ensure that
within the next two years, at least one in ten San Diego residents will be
consuming locally-grown food. The coalition was born out of a workshop on food
policy supported by the California Food Justice Coalition in March 2008. As in
much of the country, there has been an upsurge of interest in
for local food production and consumption. The impetus for the CFJC workshop was the growing sense that creating such a local foodshed was a complicated business, starting with a lack of information about where food consumed in San Diego was coming. This started an effort to map the local foodshed, with the idea of presenting the map at the 2009 San Diego Food Not Lawns conference. As the group engaged in research and consulted with each other at monthly meetings (with many an infant underfoot), the group discovered that despite our diverse range of interests, there was a common barrier: regulations were interfering with the types of change that group members wanted to make. Much of what seems like common sense ways of growing food locally are, in fact, technically illegal in the San Diego area.
After another CFJC workshop (held in September 2008), the group developed a
list of ten areas where policy-change was needed in order to develop a
