Our Partners
We team up with hella cool folks in the bay who share similar values as us, to offer more affordable food resources to our neighbors. Thank you to all of our partners for supporting us on this journey to continue this work that we love!
E14th Eatery + Kitchen is a food business incubator and community kitchen in unincorporated Ashland that supports local food entrepreneurs in growing their business. As part of a growing effort to support local entrepreneurship and build wealth in unincorporated Alameda County, Mandela Partners, the Alameda County Economic & Civic Development Department, and Resources for Community Development came together to create a vibrant business incubator for local entrepreneurs looking to sell their food and gain experience in running a retail business with low overhead costs.
E14th Eatery + Kitchen is a space to gather around delicious food, to center food as fundamental to thriving communities, and to connect and collaborate with residents to address community needs.
Moments Cooperative and Community Space opened in January 2021 on Occupied Lisjan Ohlone Land (downtown Oakland, CA) to provide much-needed physical space and community support for low-income artists and creators, unhoused neighbors, Black, brown, queer, and trans communities in the Bay Area. We are a not for profit cooperative space that is volunteer-led and horizontally run by and for QTBIPOC.
minimo
minimo is a women-owned neighborhood wine shop + wine bar in the Jack London district of Oakland, focusing on natural wines and ciders from organic and biodynamic producers. minimo is also a gathering space, dedicated to community-building and accessible wine education.
Ask the friendly staff to recommend a pairing for your menu plans!
Re-Up Refills Shop
The Re-Up Refill Shop offers a range of ecological bath, body, cooking, food, kitchen, and cleaning products in refillable containers, reducing waste from single-use plastics. Start refilling… the planet needs us 🙂 Use this helpful grocery list to start planning your containers and browse all of our products here!
Mandela Partners
Founded in West Oakland, California, Mandela Partners was established to fill a gap that was created through deeply rooted inequities–a challenging local food environment, a legacy of redlining and economic disinvestment, and barriers to opportunities for entrepreneurs. In response, Mandela Partners supported the development of a community-directed plan that respected community members’ ability to identify local needs, and uplift community assets.
A holistic and innovative set of strategies were seeded: a community-owned grocery store, increased healthy food access points, connections to local farmers, support for local entrepreneurs, and culturally relevant wellness education.
previous partners
Lower Bottoms Community Garden
On the corner of 8th and Peralta is home to a localized food system re-shaping West Oakland, Lower Bottoms’ understanding of food security. This localized food system is developed by Bottom’s Up Community Garden – which, believes that it is only through the decolonization of our current industrial agricultural system will communities improve their health, nutritional awareness and biodiversity.
Bottoms Up Community Garden was co-founded by Jason Byrnes in 2014. He started with a few abandoned plant beds, now overflowing with produce surrounding a central community long table, and medicinal plant bed, and chickens on the roughly 3,500-square-foot plot.
MudLab
MudLab was a cafe and store located on Grand Ave with a mission: to envision and build a world with a circular economy. Founded by a former teacher Castlemont, education is at the heart of MudLabs mission. The belief that community sustainability takes many forms, MudLab sought out to make sustainability affordable and accessible to people from all walks of life.
They would host waste-free community events, have a team of volunteers who help clean up the lake and also sell a selection of used books, childrens clothes and other reusable items. Mudlab closed April 2022.
Oak Harvest Kitchen
Oak Harvest Kitchen was an Oakland-rooted restaurant specializing in plant-based, whole meals, using produce from our farmers. They were working towards health, wealth and sustainability by providing reentry job opportunities for local residents as well as quick, affordable, delicious meals without all the processed junk. Oak Harvest Kitchen closed September 2022, but the job training program still continues as Culinary Employment Pathways (CEP) through Mandela Partners. CSA boxes are given to each CEP participant during their training. Their new program location is at First Presbyterian Church of Oakland.
