Food Justice Campus
Located in the heart of Canton, Ohio's Warehouse District is StarkFresh's Food Justice Campus.
This is where we create solutions to combat the social and economic realities of poverty and food insecurity.
Our address is 321 Cherry Ave NE, Canton, OH.
We are situated right on the southwest corner of 4th St NE and Cherry Ave NE with on-street parking on both Cherry Ave NE, 3rd St NE, and 4th St NE.
This building is a vibrant, multi-functional space used by community members working in collaboration to tackle the causes of hunger.
So, what exactly is Food Justice?
It’s a complicated idea, much like the causes of hunger are.
StarkFresh has found that the best way to describe Food Justice is through the following points:
Food Justice is Social Justice: both demand recognition of human rights, equal opportunity, and fair treatment;
Food Justice connects food insecurity to the economic pressures that cause it by barring access to healthy, nutritious, and culturally appropriate foods;
Our food system erects barriers along race and class lines to the means of production and distribution of food, as well as to its consumption;
The lack of access to good food is both a cause and a symptom of the structural inequalities that divide society.
Food Justice recognizes that there have been generations of problematic food systems and food policies that discriminate.
The Food Justice Campus is home to those who want to recognize past mistakes and use that recognition to create a future of healing and change.
Food Justice recognizes that there have been generations of problematic food systems and food policies that discriminate.
The Food Justice Campus is home to those who want to recognize past mistakes and use that recognition to create a future of healing and change.
In addition to housing the StarkFresh Grocery Store, our Campus is home to the Food Incubation Center (where Food Safety Training and other trainings take place alongside our Shared-use Commercial Kitchen, indoor urban farms, several local food businesses, office space, food truck commissary) and our headquarters.
It also serves as a home hub for the distribution of our Seed Library.
StarkFresh is one of the founding members of CCORR (Courageous Conversations on Race Relations), formed in 2017.
CCORR is A diverse group of individuals creating a beloved community through courageous, open dialogue, confronting systemic racism and the ways it causes division, by educating and empowering participants into anti-racist actions
To find out more about CCORR, click on the image to visit the website.
