Eco Farms supports access to healthy food in Southern California

Temecula, Calif.-based avocado grower-shipper Eco Farms donated avocados and money to the fifth annual Avocado Festival in Los Angeles.

The Aug. 5-6 festival was at the Angel City Brewery, known for its Avocado Ale, and featured avocado dishes from local food trucks and chefs to go with the beer, according to a news release. Angel City’s Avocado Ale ingredients include California avocados, honey, cilantro, peppers and lime juice.

Artists at the event created and sold avocado-inspired jewelry, paintings, posters and apparel.

Eco Farms handed out avocado recipes, and informed attendees on the growing, harvesting, ripening and distributing of avocados.

“We gave out avocado slicers, recipe booklets, and sold ripe avocados picked in our farms just a couple days prior to the festival,” Gahl Crane, sales director for Eco Farms, said in the release.

All proceeds from Eco Farms’ avocado sales and $1 from every Avocado Ale sold went to the Ron Finley Project, a nonprofit that provides community gardens in Southern California. Finley, aka the “Gangsta Gardner,” promotes vegetable gardens in areas where access to healthy food is limited.

“Giving kids and families the resources and knowledge to grow their own food sets them up for a life-long love of fresh fruit and vegetables, and the Ron Finly project is dedicated to that cause.”

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