2025 Urban Foodscape Tour: Meet urban farmers leading regenerative projects
A Bioneers gathering at Unity Park, Richmond CA (photo courtesy of Bioneers)
Looking for fresh ideas for a sustainable world? Boost your optimism and energy by taking part in the Urban Foodscape Tour: Innovators Nourishing the East Bay. It’s happening on Wednesday March 26, 9am–4:30pm, one day in advance of the March 27–29 Bioneers conference exploring solutions to environmental and social challenges. Guided by Bay Area Green Tours, the foodscape tour can be your kickoff to Bioneers or a stand-alone opportunity. Either way, you won’t want to miss the chance to visit four outstanding local organizations engaged in uplifting work you can model in your own garden and community. The tour visits these impressive sites:
A visit with Planting Justice (photo courtesy of Bay Area Green Tours)
Planting Justice Mother Farm: With an organic nursery, urban tree farm, farmers market, and commercial kitchen, PJ offers skills training and living-wage jobs to people re-entering the community after incarceration. To date, 85 jobs have been created with a recidivism rate of only 2 percent. Read more here.
Urban Adamah : Urban Adamah offers farm-based community-building experiences that integrate Jewish tradition, mindfulness, sustainable agriculture, and social action. Read more here.
A sign at Gill Tract Farm in Albany; Zee Husain gives a talk at Kula Nursery in West Oakland (Photos courtesy of Bay Area Green Tours)
UC Gill Tract Community Farm: A neighborhood farm that serves as a pioneering model of sustainable urban agriculture and donates food to local nonprofits, food banks, and other organizations. Read more here.
Sogorea Te’ Land Trust This Indigenous women-led land trust based in the Bay Area facilitates the return of Indigenous land to Indigenous people and the return of cultural knowledge, practices, languages, and food lost in colonization. In 2018, Planting Justice rematriated their land back to the Sogorea Te’ Land Trust.
Flowers bring fertility at this urban farm in Richmond (photo courtesy of Bay Area Green Tours)
Foodscape tour tickets include round-trip bus transportation from the Residence Inn Berkeley, expert guides, engaging speakers, and a delicious lunch. Since its founding by Marissa LaMagna in 2008, the nonprofit Bay Area Green Tours has collaborated with nonprofits, farms, frontline organizers, and local businesses to share local climate solutions and social justice initiatives as they are happening. Buy your tour tickets here and enjoy a 20% discount on your Bioneers Conference ticket with code “Biopartner25.”
Urban Foodscape Tour
Wednesday March 26, 9am–4:30pm
Meet at the Residence Inn, 2121 Center St, Berkeley
Cost: $185
