Walks Across the Metro Area
Each year, Plant Powered Metro New York celebrates freedom, fun, and food as we take back our health and support local eateries through our Health Freedom Walks, or restaurant “crawls.” These walks include visits to key landmarks recognizing Dr. King and the civil rights movement and walk marshals who provide inspiration and historical perspective. See highlights from this year’s walks below.
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and the most inhuman because it often results in physical death. I see no alternative to direct action and creative nonviolence to raise the conscience of the nation.”
— Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
We honor Rev. Dr. King’s legacy, recognizing that nutrition presents a transformative opportunity for health, healing, and hope in African American communities and for all of our marginalized neighbors.
We are bringing back to the fore the foodways from indigenous cultures across the diaspora that have kept Black people strong for millennia, and turning away from the foods that have caused the rise of lifestyle conditions like diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity and others — all of which are preventable and many even reversible through a plant-powered diet.
What We’ve Been Up To
Highlights from our walks in Harlem, Bed-Stuy, Riverdale, Mott Haven, Jamaica, and Bridgeport.
Thank You
to our 2026 participating restaurants and community partners!
