Food in the 'Hood

Food in the Hood is a biweekly neighborhood dinner to raise funds for global charities.

617 Walnut Avenue
Santa Cruz, California

Click on the links below to view a slideshow from the fundraiser for:
El Andalon
Caravan for Cuba

Customers take whatever they want and donate whatever they want. All proceeds go to a different global charity each week. Ingredients are fair-trade and as local as possible, from the Farmer's Markets or backyards. Students from Santa Cruz High School sometimes help out, play ukuleles, or play with the baby chicks.

Are you Local to
Food in the Hood?
We welcome donations of:

» Backyard produce
» Baked goods
» Homemade food
» Preserves
» Canning jars
» Plants & seeds
» Plant containers & flats
» Scraps for chickens / rabbits

FitH partners WitH:

Wide World Partners

high school students raising awareness and funds for global causes.

UniverseCity

enabling the great reskilling through affordable small classes.

The Parent Network

how to raise giving kids in a taking world.

RetroMetro

artisans and entrepreneurs making the practical beautiful and the beautiful practical

Transition Santa Cruz

a catalyst for relocalization

Slow Money Santa Cruz

an investor co-op for a return to small-scale agriculture & industry.

Third Paradigm

A radio thinktank about community sovereignty and regenerative economics.
FRSC 101.1 FM
Sunday 1:30pm

GrowFoodPartyCrew

helping to make santa cruz into an edible oasis.

Saturday, July 7th — Friendship of the Americas

Welcome to Food in the Sweltering Summer Hood!

Remember last June when it wouldn't stop raining long enough to schedule an outdoor event? That sure seemed like a different swing of the climate pendulum than now.

Thank you to everyone who made our only Spring FitH such a success. We sent $240 to Rights Action for their work in Honduras, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Chiapas.

This week on Saturday, July 7th, we'll be holding a brunch event around 11:00, just after our gopher-hunting demonstration by Gophers Limited. The fundraising will be for a FitH favorite - the Friendship Office of the Americas. It was founded by Rita Clark D'Escoto, the sister of Miguel D'Escoto, former president of the UN General Assembly. My good friends Tom Louden and Jenny Atlee, an extraordinary couple, head up their Honduran office. Tom started the Alliance for Responsible Trade and was appointed to be the Executive Secretary of the Commission of Truth in Honduras. Jenny wrote Red Thread: A Spiritual Journey of Accompaniment, Trauma and Healing about her experiences in Nicaragua during the US-sponsored contra wars.

There is no more worthy cause than Honduras, which is still bearing the brunt of the military coup that deposed Manuel Zelaya on June 28th, three years ago. Due to the catastrophic rise in violence and repression since then, the UN has deemed Honduras the most dangerous country in the world, with over 300 political assassinations in that time. Witness for Peace has a letter you can send to Congress to end military aid to the coup regime.

Let's hope that Paraguay isn't following in their post-coup footsteps.