This quarter's Farmer Spotlight goes to Finding Justice A Flower and Vegetable Garden based out of Chicago, Illinois. Lashawn and her team are doing incredible work providing Food as Medicine boxes to community members in food deserts, they work with local schools to provide hands on education on eating fresh and healthy vegetables, and they are currently fundraising to purchase a container to be able to grow fresh produce year round to continue to support their community. They just purchased a new lot for the container and will also be building a U-pick berry farm! They welcome tours and onsite visits if you are in the area! They are currently fundraising for the hydroponic container and welcome any and all support: https://lnkd.in/dAJXUFqq #BIPOCfarm #BIPOCfarmer #communityfarm #foodasmedicine #giveback #supportyourlocalfarmer
SupplyChange LLC
Food and Beverage Services
We link underserved producers to corporate and institutional foodservice through the power of value chain strategy.
About us
Our mission is to re-regionalize food systems. We work as a bridge between producers, distributors, processors, workers, and communities through the power of value chain strategy.
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http://www.supplychange.co
External link for SupplyChange LLC
- Industry
- Food and Beverage Services
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- USA
- Type
- Partnership
- Founded
- 2020
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Primary
USA, US
Employees at SupplyChange LLC
Updates
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Our very own Anna Bohbot (Zulaica) contributing to the Menus of Change Leadership Summit program. If you have not been to this conference, we highly recommend you check it out! https://lnkd.in/dwbyiEN
I’m proud to help advise on the program for the 2025 Menus of Change Leadership Summit. This year’s Menus of Change Leadership Summit will tackle topics including value and affordability, global nutrition frameworks, food policy, and reducing food waste, just to name a few. As a member of the advisory council, it was important to all of us to create a program that arms chefs and foodservice professionals with tangible, easy-to-implement solutions to help nudge their guests toward healthier, more sustainable, and most importantly, delicious food choices, while also helping make their businesses more resilient. Join me and attend the program, June 4-5, 2025 at The Culinary Institute of America. Link to the program is below and feel free to DM me if you have any questions! https://lnkd.in/duvQuyNP #menusofchange #leadershipcouncil #foodwaste #globalnutrition #foodsystems #foodpolicy Abby Fammartino
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We are looking forward to the winding down over this holiday week and holiday season as we strap our boots on preparing for 2025. We are thankful for our wonderful network of thought leaders, partners, farmers, and producers we get to work with to continuously improve our regional food systems. If you haven't thanked your local farmer/rancher/producer, try to do so this week 🤎 On December 3rd, SupplyChange be attending the Winter Gathering at the UCSC Hay Barn. If anyone in our network will be attending, would love to catch up. Spread the word and RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/db2Z6Bdz #alwaysnetworking #thankyourfarmer #thankyourrancher #thankyourproducer Anna Bohbot (Zulaica) Heather "H" Nieto-Friga UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology
December 3rd Winter Gathering RSVP
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It's not too late to sign up for this FREE workshop presented by SupplyChange CEO Heather "H" Nieto-Friga, tomorrow at 8:15am PT / 10:15am CT / 11:15am ET: Cracking the Wholesale Code: Market Insights for Farmers + Advocates - see the Zoom registration link for a description of the workshop. Huge thanks to the Chicago Food Policy Action Council for hosting this amazing multi-day event for producers and allies! Our friends at Midwest Foods and The Common Market are holding a panel right afterward that will build on the strategies we cover in our session - don't miss it!
Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Cracking the Wholesale Code: Market Insights for Farmers + Advocates. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting.
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Abraham Garcia of Royally Grown is one of our longtime partner growers at SupplyChange LLC. Abraham is a brilliant young man who has been farming with his mother at ALBA, and his entrepreneurial spirit astounds us - every time we line him up with a sales opportunity, he delivers with quality and hustle. Royally Grown's delivery van, which was full of fresh organic strawberries waiting to be sold, was stolen recently - a horrific turn of events for a young farmer. We've just donated to RG's GoFundMe to help them replace the van. If you have a spare $10 or $20 and want to support a Salinas Valley grower in need, please consider donating. https://gofund.me/509eae5e **Also, Royally Grown has a huge excess of organic lunchbox peppers! If you know of any schools or retailers that could use up to 6000lbs of these sweet and mild beauties, please DM me!
Donate to Help Abraham After His Van Full of Strawberries was Stolen, organized by Jacob Weiss
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Big weeks up ahead! CEO H Nieto-Friga (Frambach) will be hitting the talk and workshop circuit: Mon 10/28: Wholesale sales training for farmers and advocates with Chicago Food Policy Action Council/Chicago Metro GFPI's Fall 2024 mixer (Scaling For Success), plus a panel with Midwest Foods on getting real about institutional procurement challenges! Tues 10/29: Presenting with University of California Office of the President and UC Santa Cruz Center for Agroecology at the AASHE conference on our work to level up sustainable food procurement across the UC system Weds 10/30: Guest teaching at University of California, Berkeley in Helene York and Will Rosenzweig's class on values-based supply chains with Shannen Casey and Clifford Pollard We love sharing what we're learning in the field. If you have any needs for training your team, your community of farmers, or other stakeholders, we're here for you!
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We want to give a huge shoutout to the work that our friends at Climate Farm School is doing! 🙌 There is still time to snag a spot in their upcoming course in the Hudson Valley in September! Details below.... Climate Farm School is a unique opportunity for food and sustainability professionals to live and work on a regenerative farm for a week while learning about climate solutions within sustainable food systems. The course runs for 4 weeks, with weeks 1, 2 and 4 online, and the 3rd week on the farm. Program elements include hands-on farm work, soil health workshop, meals prepared alongside local chefs and farmers, climate leadership development, generative discussions and networking with people with similar interests. There are still a few spots for the fall course in the Hudson Valley, September 22-28 at Hawthorne Valley Farm, including scholarship spots available. You can learn more and apply on the website. Feel free to contact program director Alana Siegner with any questions: laney@climatefarmschool.org and please help us spread the word! 📢 🗣 https://lnkd.in/dMvdgVPb #continuingeducation #backtoschool #regenerativefarming #onfarmleaning #climate #foodsystemseducation #foodsystemschange
Climate Farm School™
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Still energized from this convening at UCSC last week! We brought together dining directors and UC leadership from across the system to envision how we get to 25% sustainable food purchasing across the board. Our team lifted up insights we gathered from speaking with dining teams. We presented pilots we are launching and growing with Permanent, Vesta Foodservice, Yolo Food Network (Capay Valley Farm Shop, Marcellus Foods, Matriark Foods) and Cream Co. And threw our support for re-invigorating student-driven procurement action with Real Food Challenge. SupplyChange is ready for Phase 2 of this project and helping UC charge forward as a global leader in institutional procurement!
What a generative Phase 1 convening for our UC Wide Sustainable Food Service and Sourcing Project held at the Center for Agroecology these past few days. The project brought together UC Campus and Health Centers Dining Directors, Chefs, Sustainability Staff, and Procurement Staff with systemwide leadership and our incredible Technical Assistance Team weaving in the USDA Southwest Regional Food Business Center (SWRFBC), Community Alliance with Family Farmers, Real Food Challenge/Anchors In Action, Shared Plate Strategies, & SupplyChange. The ability to map oppportunities, gaps, and pilot to scale efforts was further elevated with additional guest presenters including Roots Of Change lifting grassfed beef/meat and eco-system responsive cattle ranching in the west as well as the Alice Waters Institute and their healthy and sustainable K-higher ed school food project efforts. Our campus catering team included small scale and regional sustainable procuders and fisherfolx (shot out to Real Food Fish!) across lunches and a field to table dinner at the UCSC Farm. After two days on the UCSC Farm and HayBarn we took the group to visit veteran organic regional farmer Dick Peixoto at Lakeside Organics with their cooling and aggregation facility to the Agriculture Land Based Training Association (ALBA) farming program graduate and shero Bertha Magaña on her 9 acre farm outside of San Miguel to better engage the spectrum of underserved and beginning farmer to scaled farming enterprises and how institutions like the UC can better serve our smaller scale first gen, women owned, tribal, and undereserved producers and vendors as we build a more sustainable and equitable values based food supply chain! More to come as we wrap up Phase I and move into the next year of our collective efforts! https://lnkd.in/gXk7qNgy
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To our farmer network and colleagues that work with farmers, please spread the word on this grant opportunity!
🌎 Restore Grants Available Now! Farmers and ranchers in CA, CO, OR, and WA are eligible for Zero Foodprint’s Restore Grant, which provides funding to implement farm practices that sequester carbon. Receive up to $25,000 for compost application, cover cropping, hedgerow establishment, and other regenerative practices. . 👉 Applications are open 7/26 - 8/20. Learn more and apply at zerofoodprint.org/apply . 👉 Help us spread the word! Use our Restore Sharing Toolkit to tell your network about this unique opportunity for growers: https://t.ly/oFh9W . #ZeroFoodprint #CollectiveRegeneration #CaliforniaFarms #ColoradoFarms #RegenerativeFarming #CarbonSequestration #Grants
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This June we have so much to celebrate: SupplyChange’s 4 year anniversary, founder H’s 37th birthday, and of course, Pride Month! We are a proudly queer and transmasc-owned business led by multiethnic AFABs. For those that are our close friends and colleagues, you already know how much H champions queerness and “mixed-ness” as some of the most powerful lenses to bring to systems change work - including and especially food systems. To hold identities outside of societal norms is to commit to a lifelong journey of seeing and solving problems differently, and to finding and deepening relationships with our chosen families and communities so that we can write our own “science fiction” to bring new futures to life. As queer systems change visionary adrienne marie brown says, “Science fiction is simply a way to practice the future together…It is our right and responsibility to create a new world.” We’re proud to be continually queering food systems with our approach, and creating new, re-regionalized, just worlds with likeminded allies, partners, and farms. Enjoy some photos below of our new farm partner Star Route Farm/Catskills Agrarian Alliance in upstate New York, which H had the pleasure of visiting last month. Sending love to all of our LGBTQ+ partners and allies in this work, and Happy Pride! #pridemonth #LGBTQAlly #supplychange 🏳️🌈 🏳️🌈 H Nieto-Friga (Frambach) Tianna Kennedy Anna Bohbot (Zulaica)
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