Food insecurity and food apartheid are a common challenge in many low-income and minority neighborhoods across the United States. Big supermarket companies avoid those areas because stores are unprofitable and small stores find that they make the most money on junk foods, sodas and liquor. Saba Grocers is an Oakland-based organization, founded in 2019, that works with those small stores to enable them to sell fresh produce sourced from minority farmers across the region. Join host Ronnie Lipschutz for a conversation with Lina Ghanem, director and co-founder of the Saba Grocers Initiative in Oakland.

Here is another podcast of interest from Michael Olson

Staff of Life is a locally-owned grocery store competing for consumer dollars in a market dominated by corporate giants. And so we ask:

How does a local grocery store survive in a marketplace of corporate giants?

The Food Chain Radio Show - Podcast with Michael Olson hosts Gary Bascou, Co-Founder of Staff of Life Natural Foods for a conversation about how a locally-owned grocery store can survive 56 years to be among the last to stand in a market dominated by corporate grocery giants.

Topics include the culture that gave rise to “natural” and “organic” food markets; how those foods gave rise to Staff of Life Natural Foods Market; and how Staff of Life survives 56 years of competition with corporate food giants.

Show Recording: Staff of Life: Local Grocer V. Corporate Giants

Radio: www.santacruzvoice.com

Host: www.metrofarm.com

Sponsor: TimeShare Media