It'd be wonderful if The Almanac did a story on Collective Roots and its food growing predecessors here in East Palo Alto. Not only is there a great project going on right now between Stanford, Collective Roots & the earlier agriculturists here in EPA, but Collective Roots has a fabulous CSA program AND farmer's market. Residents can have a free garden bed at their home or on site at Collective Roots. There're also gardening and cooking classes, a seed and tool library, volunteer roles and food sharing. It's a marvelous nonprofit who're making a real difference here in what has previously been a real food desert.

People in PV & Woodside can afford just about anything that they want to eat. Having these choices is a privilege that most people are blind to. Choosing local, sustainable food & food sharing is a wonderful way to alter one's lifestyle. Here in EPA, it's vital for the health & well-being of the residents to learn that the $$ cost of a food item isn't always its most important cost to us, in the long term. But right now, it's all about the money & not about long term health of residents, the community & the planet. This needs to change!