Boggs Tract Community Farm Featured in SJ Magazine

PUENTES was featurued in the San jaoquin Maginze’s annual “green” April issue in a lovely article written by Patricia Kutza:  Click here to read PUENTES’ story on page 79 of  the San Joaquin Magazine Digital Edition

PUENTES Releases 2011 Annual Report

2011 was a great year for PUENTES! At their annual meeting, the Board of Directors unvieled their 2011 Annual Report. Click here to download your copy of PUENTES 2011 Annual Report

Groups target businesses with carrot mobs

By Michael Fitzgerald In 2006, I joined a boycott of Kentucky Fried Chicken to protest the gruesome chicken-factory methods of the company’s suppliers. It hasn’t done a bit of good. This week, I bumped into a young San Francisco entrepreneur who has invented a better way of persuading businesses to change: the carrot mob. A […]

Goggio Family Foundation Endorses Boggs Tract Community Farm!

PUENTES just received a $10,000 grant from the Goggio Family Foundation to build a much needed greenhouse, buy organic seeds and fertilizers, and help pay for irrigation equipment for Boggs Tract Community Farm! In early 2011 PUENTES submitted a grant proposal to the Goggio Family Foundation’s  Community Development and Social Change Program to help develop the Farm. The mission of the Goggio […]

Sowing a prosperous future

By: Michael Fitzgerald, Record, 11/6/11 The bitterest dish in Stockton is to live in America’s food basket, yet send kids to school hungry. Or live in an urban “food desert” devoid of fresh fruits and vegetables. Given this market failure, a Stockton neighborhood is trying a new approach: “social entrepreneurship,” a business venture aimed not only […]

Manteca Bulletin: PUENTES Garden at SJC Fair

Everything coming up roses (& more) at fair By Rose Albano-Risso ralbanorisso@mantecabulletin.com Avid gardeners will find many freebies to take home and plenty of gardening ideas at the San Joaquin County Fair which is wrapping up its final day today from noon to 7 p.m. As soon as you step inside the fair’s main entrance, […]

CITIZENS ADVISORY COMMITTEE TO JOIN FIGHT AGAINST HUNGER

On February 2, 2010, Promotores Unidas para la Educacion Nacional de Tecnologías Sostenibles (PUENTES) welcomed a highly qualified group – Patricia Miller-Battiste, Eleazar Caballero, Marcy Hachman, Rey Ledesma, Mark Stebbins, Maria Mendez, and Dale Sanders – to participate in the Citizen’s Advisory Committee for their Community Supported Garden project. Stockton is one of California’s fastest […]