2025 SF Food Action Summit: Cultivating Just Food Futures

Event Description:

Over FAACTS’ history, we have always looked forward. With all the chaos trying to prevent us from joining forces to build collective power, we remain steadfast in our pursuit of a shared, positive, joyful vision of the future. Building upon the visionary work from our first summit, the 2nd Annual SF Food Action Summit: Cultivating Just Food Futures will unite San Francisco to transform how the City addresses food insecurity and take bold steps toward creating SF’s first long-term food system strategy.

The summit will bring together community leaders, farmers, advocates, policymakers, restaurant leaders, and more to turn ideas into action and shape a just, regenerative, and resilient food future for all! Be part of the movement to imagine and plan a food system that upholds food as a basic human right – ensuring that everyone has access to healthy, nutritious, affordable, and culturally relevant food at all times.

We encourage everyone to attend and, especially, farmers who labor for our city’s benefit, local producers and vendors, food service workers and their unions, restaurant leaders, healthcare, and grassroots leaders and organizations that feed our city’s diverse communities. Now, more than ever, it’s important that we come together as a city to ensure our basic rights are protected and that our food is valued as more than just a commodity.

About FAACTS

The Food and Agriculture Action Coalition Toward Sovereignty (FAACTS) was formed in 2022 when 30 local partner organizations identified the necessity of ensuring consistent and equitable access to high quality, local, fresh and culturally-inclusive food and nutrition services in San Francisco.

FAACTS Mission

Our mission is to build a just, sustainable, and holistic food system, ensuring we are neighborhood-based and coordinated across every district in San Francisco, with the goal of nourishing our community in a way that is sincere, healthy, empowering, specific, culturally relevant, humble, and abundant.

SF Food Action Summit Host Committee

Beth Bodner (SF Environment), Kalil Macklin (Anthem Blue Cross), Maggie Shugerman (D10 Community Market), Shiba Bandeeba (GLIDE)

SF Food Action Summit Planning Committee

18 Reasons, Acterra, Booker T. Washington Community Services Center, EatSF/Vouchers4Veggies, Farming Hope, Food Connect, Foodwise, Food as Medicine Collaborative, La Cocina, Urban Sprouts, Rosy Barrera and Tait Salzman (community members)

Sponsors

FAACTS wants to thank The Hibernia SF for offering their beautiful space to us for this event! We're excited and honored to have their support.

Ticket Pricing

We can’t let economic circumstances shut anyone away from the kitchen table! Therefore, we are offering a limited amount of scholarships to our community in San Francisco. Please email [email protected] for more information and request the scholarship form.

If you would like to purchase more than 10 tickets for your school or organization please email [email protected] for assistance.

Info: Taste and experience the cultural richness of the Tenderloin district on this food tour led by a foodie influencer you may follow!

Info: Check-in at the Hibernia SF (1 Jones St., SF, CA 94102)

Info: We're honored to have award-winning Palestinian-Syrian speaker & chef, Reem Assil, and author and professor, Andrea Freeman, in conversation with each other to help us better understand the historical barriers to food justice. In order to effectively move forward, we need to understand how we got here.

Info: Enjoy a beautifully curated sit-down dinner provided by local food businesses that reflects the values of this event. Break bread and share stories with community members who also care about creating a just food future and system that works for all!

Info: For one-day summit attendees, be sure to pick up your badge at the registration table. For two-day summit attendees who may have forgotten or lost their badge, please also check-in with someone at the registration table.

Info: Last summit, we focused on envisioning what a good food system in SF could look like. This year, we're taking bold steps toward creating an overdue, long-term food system strategy for the City. But what will help us stay the course? FAACTS' Good Food Manifesto is a culmination of the work we started at the first summit and the conversations we've had with community experts since. We hope this document helps illustrate what is possible for the City and provides opportunities for folks to plug in as we aim to transform the way SF addresses food insecurity and helps us value food as more than a commodity.

Info: This session starts at 9:30am and will last 15-20 minutes. Enjoy a tea ceremony led by the oh-so-cool Cindy, founder of Uproot Teas, and your friendly neighborhood foray guide. Check her out on Instagram @cindydoedee!

Info: Attend one of the three offered breakout sessions and workshops designed to equip participants with the knowledge needed to advance SF towards a just food future and a good food system.

Info: Attend one of the three offered breakout sessions and workshops designed to equip participants with the knowledge needed to advance SF towards a just food future and a good food system.

Info: This session starts at 2:15PM and will last for 15-20 minutes. Enjoy a tea ceremony led by the oh-so-cool Cindy, founder of Uproot Teas, and your friendly neighborhood foray guide. Check her out on Instagram @cindydoedee!

Info: Attend one of the three offered breakout sessions and workshops designed to equip participants with the knowledge needed to advance SF towards a just food future and a good food system.

Info: Dr. Gina Fromer, GLIDE CEO and the perfect local hero to close out the summit, will drive home why this work is so important and why it's important to do together.

Info: Big thanks to Booker T. Washington Community Service Center for always making sure we're well-nourished! They sponsored this year's produce giveaway with produce from Yeyi Organics.

Info: Admission to the post-summit celebration requires an additional fee, but it will be worth it! Explore spaces of the Hibernia you probably haven't seen and dine on must-eats found only in the culturally rich Tenderloin district.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

The Hibernia, 1 Jones Street, San Francisco, United States