Veggielution

Eastside connect includes a farm box distribution program which improves food security for east san jose's most vulnerable residents and a weekly farm stand, which provides fresh, locally grown, and affordable produce to the community and accepts electronic benefits transfer (ebt) cards for calfresh. Each week over 300 farm boxes are distributed to economically vulnerable, mobility challenged, and food-insecure, mainly latinx, east san jose residents who live in qualified census tracts located in the 95116, 95122, and 95127 zip codes.

The organizing and advocacy team works to strengthen supporting relationships with community members, east san jose agencies, and partnering organizations to provide additional resources to the community. Through organizing training and civic engagement opportunities, veggielution seeks to affect change in the social and economic conditions to help create a sense of agency, belonging, and economic self-sufficiency for our east san jose community.

Si se puede collectiveveggielution's community roots are further expanded by its membership in the si se puede collective (sspc), a group of five organizations that have been embedded in the mayfair neighborhood for decades, building trust and understanding of residents' day-to-day realities and lived experience. Many of the member agencies are founded or led by women of color. The sspc has built ongoing processes to engage residents, not only as recipients of services, but as leaders who co-create, develop, and learn programs, services, organizing, and advocacy efforts.