Our Bayanihan Community Response in San Diego will be hosting a 619 Community Garden Exchange!
Saturday, June 19, 2020
9:00 am start food drop-off
10am-1pm food distribution
Join us at El Toyon Park in National City as we launch a Filipino community garden exchange between National City and Southeast San Diego (Paradise Hills, Skyline, Encanto)!
In the spirit of Bayanihan and inspired by the growth of community pantries across the Philippines, we aim to build a stronger, more interconnected, inter-generational Filipino community across San Diego by offering to help harvest and gather surplus produce from home gardens, in order to distribute these locally grown fruits and vegetables to working-class Filipino families, especially renters who don’t have the space to build their own gardens.
Anyone who grows their own fruits and vegetables at home and wants to donate and share with the Filipino American community.
Anyone can pick up and access the donated food. You are not required to donate food to come to the exchange event.
Give what you can, take home what you need.
Link to donate: Tiny.cc/619gives
Our Mission:
We promote health and wellness by increasing access to healthy and fresh food. We want to share any extra fruits and vegetables for others to enjoy and prevent edible food from being wasted.
We want to build stronger relationships between the youth and our elders by meeting, chatting, sharing, and helping each other. We aim to learn from, unite, and empower our community to have a strong voice on issues that affect us.
For those of us born outside the Philippines, we hope to get more in touch with our agricultural roots in our motherland, where the large majority of the population are still farmers.
What Can Be Donated:
Any amount of fruits and vegetables. Please do not cut up, chop, or cook beforehand. We would like to have the fruits and vegetables untouched so that it allows the community more options to choose how they want to prepare and use the food themselves.
Collection Options:
Drop off their donated fruit and vegetables in a bag or box on the day of our Community Garden Exchange event.
Request a pickup from their home. Our volunteers can pick it up and bring it to the event. We can also help them harvest and gather the fruits and vegetables from their garden if they need extra assistance.
Other Notes:
If you donate food you are protected from liability by the federal Good Samaritan Food Donation Act.
Volunteer Options and Other Ways to Help
Before the Event:
Drive - Pick up and transport fruits and vegetables from homes to the event
Post flyers around the neighborhood of the event
Create posters and signs for us to post and direct people to the event
Day of the Event:
Donate - Bring any clean and extra plastic bags, boxes, and crates to the event to help the community pick and bring home their collected fruits and vegetables
Hold up signs - Grab the public’s attention and direct them to the event
Intake - Welcome people, receive donations, track what’s being donated, and organize the donated items on the tables
If you would like to volunteer with Bayanihan Community Response San Diego please email: bayanihansd@gmail.com