Mission
EFAM recovers, transforms, and distributes food surplus and natural medicines to unhoused, formerly incarcerated and low income communities to further the regeneration of people and land.
We steward the process of detox, recovery and growth with Ancestral Medicines.
Our global network offers handmade wares that support the work of EFAM and the communities they come from.
Vision
A re-indigized world where all people have access to land health and wellness
Background
XOCHITL BERNADETTE MORENO
Co-Founder & lover of calendula
Xochitl is an activist, media maker and healer dedicated to the wellness of the planet and its people.For the past ten years she has been a co-producer and host for 94.1FM KPFA Pacifica Radio’s La Onda Bajita, the longest running Chican@/Xican@ radio show in the country.
She also co-founded, The Outsider News, a Bay Area independent media company. In addition to her media work she has spent the past 15 years providing body work and currently studies Herbal and Ayurvedic medicine and curanderismo.
https://kpfa.org/program/la-onda-bajita/
Co-Founder and resident juice maestro
MA. Transpersonal Psychology, resides in Oakland, CA. AshEL has worked with the Alliance for Climate Education, been a Green For All Fellow, a Climate Justice, Race, and Activism instructor at San Francisco State University, and taught conflict resolution skills with Soul Shoppe. He is the founder of Soulestial Church, Earth Amplified, and S.O.S (System out of our System) Juice. He is a co-founder of United Roots – Oakland’s Green Youth Arts and Media Center. He serves on the board of Hip Hop is Green, an international organization promoting the 10th Element of hip-hop: Health and Wellness.
Guiding Principles
Honoring indigenious tradition and Earth based knowledge
Food Waste Food Security
Resilience
Regeneration
Mutual Aid
Impacted Communities are assisting on implementing solutions
Addressing Health and Spirituality are necessary elements to successful movement building Detoxification is necessary for clarity to mobilize - addiction is state violence
Harm reduction
Transformative Justice
Sovereignty
Health Equity
Context
These rapidly changing times of COVID 19 has further exposed the underlying ecological, economic and health imbalances of our world. Crises create opportunity.
Our neighborhoods and our bodies have weathered a climate of fear and uncertainty.
Unhoused peoples have less access to food, medicine, or sanitation due to a loss of existing and already limited community programs.
Farmers and Distributors have surplus food and rotting produce because of the lack of demand due to unemployment and a failing economy.
Frontline and Essential Workers are putting their health and that of their families on the line everyday with little to no protection and care for their wellbeing.
Elderly people are at the highest risk for isolation.
Undocumented communites have been persecuted and left in the shodows unable to access the social services avaible to everday citizens.
Formerly Incarcerated people are being released in large numbers into a community in crises, with little or no safety net, due to the grievous health risks they face in overcrowded prisons.
Immune & Mobility Compromised & those with pre existing conditions are at higher risk.
Due to Shelter in Place, even those who have resources are dealing with a loss of purpose resulting in depression and anxiety.
Resources and Energy are redirected at this moment to address these needs in critical times.