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Growing Food Insecurity in the US

In 2023, the California Association of Food Banks reported more than 3 million households in California alone were considered food insecure, and a continually growing crisis all over the US. However, Solano County offers ways to navigate the cost of food for many families. To read more, click here.

Food Connects Us: National Nutrition Month 2025

Click here to read about how National Nutrition Month came to be and ways to participate yourself.

Farming Champions in Solano

Legislation Scorecard Shows Key Food & Farming Champs in California.
Solano County Food Policy Council, November 16, 2016
Today, a diverse range of nutrition, worker, farmer and environmental advocates — representing communities up and down the state — released a report detailing critical food and farming issues taken up in the California legislature this year. The report also includes a detailed record of legislators’ votes on those issues. Read more.

Youth explore cooking, nutrition with Solano County Educators, library staff, parents

"“They are very impressionable,” said Rema El-Mahmoud, who led the workshop with Tatiana Dykes. Both work with the county’s nutrition department. “It’s a good time. They are curious.”
It also brings the county program into the community to help educate families about nutrition, El-Mahmoud said. It may open them up to exploring new foods, she said." Click here to read the rest of the article.