Active Claremont Welcomes Manager of Unique Local Program

Active Claremont, a group of civic-minded residents and local leaders, will welcome Sara Estevez Cores, Sustainable Entrepreneurship Coordinator Fellow at Scripps College, as speaker for their November meeting.

Estevez Cores assists in managing and promoting Fallen Fruit From Rising Women. The organization teams with Crossroads, a transitional home for women who have served long prison sentences.

It provides the women a chance to work in a Food Justice program, which produces jams such as dried seasonal fruit granola, blood orange chile marmalade, and lemon lavender marmalade.

Among the locations where the products are sold are the Claremont Farmer's Market and the Cheese Cave in Claremont.

Sara, a recent Scripps College graduate, also organizes the harvest, bottling, marketing, and sales of the award winning Scripps College olive oil, according to Active Claremont officials. The fellowship was partially funded through profits from last year's olive oil. 

“The aim and hope is to expand the social enterprise to provide employment for graduates of the Crossroads program,” Active Claremont officials wrote in a news release.

The Active Claremont meeting is scheduled for 7 p.m. Nov. 21 in the Santa Fe Room at the Alexander Hughes Community Center, 1700 Danbury Road.