Culture, Heritage & Community Wellness

This part of the Hayward Food Action Plan emphasizes the importance of maintaining cultural food traditions while also promoting overall community health and well-being. This can involve initiatives such as supporting local food markets, traditional cooking classes, and community gatherings that revolve around food. The goal is to ensure that food not only nourishes the body but also sustains cultural identity and strengthens the sense of belonging within a community.

Food Recovery

Highlights & Opportunities

Hayward food recovery organizations leading the effort

Community Based Organizations in Hayward have developed their own networks. Partners that are crucial to this work include Dig Deep Farms and Daily Bowl.

Food Access & Security

Collecting local data to better address local problems:

At the beginning of the planning process, the Food Access & Security working group was polled to identify their priority areas on action items we could work towards. The top three topics to address were: 

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