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 (E14th) – is a community food hall located in Ashland, a neighborhood in unincorporated Alameda County. In its 5th year in operation, E14th serves as an affordable brick and mortar retail space that opens opportunities to local, limited-resource entrepreneurs and entrepreneurs of color, looking to launch or grow community-based food businesses.
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!
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.
