Feeding the Masses – The People’s Grocery
Thursday, January 29th, 2009People’s Grocery is a community-based organization in West Oakland that has developed a unique and creative solution to the health problems in their community that stem from a lack of access to and knowledge about healthy, fresh foods.
Their mission is to build a local food system that improves the health and economy of the West Oakland community by bringing healthy, affordable foods to lower income folks in Oakland. Their solar powered mobile market could be seen darting through the streets of West Oakland dropping off organic fruits and veggies while their food programs and cooking workshops steadily promoted the powers of healthy eating.
Brahm Ahmadi- Co-Founder and Executive Director of People’s Grocery
Brahm Ahmadi is an Iranian-American who grew up in Los Angeles and now lives in Oakland, CA. He has a B.A. in Sociology from the University of California and is an MBA candidate at the Presidio School of Management. Brahm combines social enterprise, cooperative economics, urban agriculture, public education and youth development to build healthy and stable inner city communities. He is also Executive Director of the North Oakland Land Trust, which preserves properties in North Oakland for the exclusive purpose of community gardening. Brahm is active in worker-owned cooperative business development and organizing for economic democracy and was a founding board member of the US Federation of Worker Cooperatives. Visit www.peoplesgrocery.org, or Brahm’s blog at http://peoplesgrocery.org/brahm/peoples-grocery.
