I'm running the Oakland Marathon! Well I'll be running with Team Tilth because I can't run the whole marathon. But it's my first one so yay!! Urban Tilth is an amazing cause whose programs are needed more than ever.

We’re living in unprecedented times when families are struggling now more than ever. With the anticipated cuts to SNAP and WIC benefits both due to the federal government shutdown and the proposed new federal budget, including the anticipated astronomical increases to healthcare costs we are anticipating a crisis in our social safety net over the next year or more. Critical sources of federal funding that once helped keep people nourished have disappeared. Recent federal and medical program cuts have reduced support for local farms and food access initiatives, and many of our neighbors are in survival mode.

Urban Tilth knows that there is a growing need for our FREE food box programs, the FREE CSA and FREE Farm Stand in the immediate future. In order to meet this anticipated need, we are proactively launching the Family to Family Campaign so that families can help each other through this crisis by helping to raise the critical funds needed to feed our neighbors in need.