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From local grassroots reporting to national policy recognition, learn how SoLA Food Co-op is making headlines in the fight for local food justice.

SoLA Food Cooperative is proud to be one of the 64 food retail and food retail supply chain projects receiving technical assistance funding through the 2024-25 funding rounds of America’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI) Food Access and Retail Expansion (FARE) Fund (04/16/2026)
SoLA Food Co-op highlighted in “Maps that Matter: From “Food Desert” to Food Apartheid” published by Seeds of (in)Security (09/15/2025)
“Community-Owned, Community-Fed: The SoLA Food Co-Op Story…” aired on the Re-Imagining Community with Garland podcast hosted by Garland Fuller (06/11/2025)
“SoLA Food Co-op seeks food justice” published by Our Weekly LA (04/30/2025)
The hurdles facing SoLA Food Cooperative’s goal of opening a grocery store take center stage in “Why does LA have so few cooperative markets?” published by LA Public Press (03/13/2024)
SoLA Food Co-op mentioned in “Black Owned Grocery Stores For Non GMO and Organic Foods! Seeking To Connect To African Markets” published by Black Coral (09/07/2023)
SoLA Food Co-op signs on in support of Assembly Bill 1857, sponsored by the California Food and Farming Network and Economic Security California Action, against restrictive grocery store covenants in California (06/15/2023)
SoLA Food Co-op makes the list in “Black-Owned Farmers Markets To Visit To Support Black Farmers And Vendors” published by Blavity (04/07/2023)
SoLA Food Co-op mentioned in “Black-led Food Co-ops Restore Justice, Hope, and Power” published by Food Tank (01/28/2023)
SoLA Food Co-op is proud to be a featured startup in FCI’s 2023 annual report (2023)
SoLA Food Co-op’s provision of free bags of groceries mentioned in “Harris-Dawson Spearheads Opening of Housing Units for Homeless Seniors” published by the LA Sentinel (11/29/2022)
SoLA Food Co-op mentioned in “Co-Op Grocery Stores Expand Their Mission to Equity and Food Justice” published by Civil Eats (09/19/2022)
“SoLA Food Co-op seeks support from stakeholders” published by Our Weekly LA (04/27/2022)
“South LA Community Group Loses Bid to Acquire Crenshaw Mall Despite Offering the Most Money” mentions SoLA on Eater.com (07/27/2021)
Former President of the National Association of Housing Cooperatives and cooperative advocate Vernon Oakes interviews SoLA founder Bahni Turpin on the Everything Coop podcast (04/22/2021)
“South LA Residents Working to Open Healthy Grocery Store in Food Desert” published by Spectrum News 1 (03/30/2021)
SoLA founder Bahni Turpin interviewed in the online magazine Voyage LA (09/21/2020)
SoLA Food Co-Op featured on the Hey Sister blog (undated)
SoLA Food Coop mentioned in “Shop Black: Complete List Of African American Owned Grocery Stores & Farmers Markets” published by Black Doctor (11/17/2016)
SoLA Food Co-op highlighted in the LA Green Grounds blog (05/28/2016)
“SoLa Food Co-Op Hosts A Free High Blood Pressure Awareness Workshop in South L.A.” published by the LA Sentinel (11/13/2014)
SoLA Food Co-op mentioned in Ebony Magazine (10/02/2013)
SoLA Food Co-op profiled by CBS (2013)
Fir st market study completed for SoLA Food Co-op by Prescription for Justice (2012)

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Three Reasons to Join SoLA

01Community Buy-In

02Collaborative Effort

03Expert Leadership

SoLA Food Co-op

01
Community Buy-In

02
Collaborative Effort

03
Expert Leadership