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Each week we post articles, poems, and essays that relate to food sovereignty, health & wellbeing, and eating culture.

After a Century In Decline, Black Farmers Are Back And On the Rise

5/9/2016

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"These Black farmers don’t stop at healthy food. They’re healing trauma, instilling collective values, and changing the way their communities think about the land.

"In 1982, the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights extrapolated the statistics on land loss and predicted the extinction of the Black farmer by the year 2000.

"They were wrong. While the situation is still dire, with Black farmers comprising only about 1 percent of the industry, we have not disappeared. After more than a century of decline, the number of Black farmers is on the rise.

"These farmers are not just growing food, either. The ones you’ll meet here rely on survival strategies inherited from their ancestors, such as collectivism and commitment to social change. They infuse popular education, activism, and collective ownership into their work."

Written by Leah Penniman for YES! Magazine. Read the full article here.




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The Radical Homemaker

12/22/2015

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"As I grew to adulthood and began a family of my own, I realized that this little farm was more than just a pastoral dream. It was an antidote to industrial food, climate change, harried living and social injustices. But how was one little grassfed livestock farm high in the mountains going to support two families? I looked to my Appalachian neighbors, who had lived well up here for generations, with little to no cash. If they could do it, so could we. We would simply have to learn to make what we couldn’t buy. I would become the radical homemaker. I thought it was just a sensible choice. I didn’t know it would spark a revolution."

Read more from Shannon Hayes here.



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Principles of Food Sovereignty

12/16/2015

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From the Detroit Food Justice Task Force:

Principles of Food Sovereignty
  • Food Sovereignty recognizes that launching a campaign for food sovereignty is a right of the people.
  • Food Sovereignty means growing and harvesting as much food as we possibly can everywhere.
  • Food Sovereignty includes liberating land through reclaiming urban and rural spaces for the production of food for communities; demanding the use of public lands for food production.
  • Food Sovereignty includes hosting collective meals in our communities as a way of connecting people across generations and cultural backgrounds as a tool for dismantling racism in the food system.
  • Food Sovereignty requires forging new models of collective control of land and waterways; assuring legal protection of the commons.
  • Food Sovereignty requires rejecting GMOs and other forms of the corporate takeover of our food systems.
  • Food Sovereignty involves creatively and strategically working to dismantle the corporations that have hijacked the world’s food systems.
  • Food Sovereignty means working towards a people’s food and farm bill based on principles of food sovereignty
  • Food Sovereignty requires engaging communities in popular education on GMOs, the role of corporations in our food system, community nutrition and health.
  • Food Sovereignty means helping everyone understand where their food comes from and who helped bring it to their table.

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  • Home
    • Contact
    • In the News
    • What We're Reading
    • Volunteer Opportunities
  • Food Sovereignty
    • Bad River Tribal Food Sovereignty
    • Community Gardens
    • Local Resources & Partnering Organizations
  • Education
    • Winter Spinach High Tunnel Research Project >
      • Yield Data
      • Temperature Data
      • Notes and Observations
    • Farm to School >
      • Harvest of the Month
      • School Gardens
      • Farm-to-School Contacts
      • Internships
      • Local Food Requests
      • Events
    • Agripreneur Program >
      • 2016 Agripreneur Resources
      • High Tunnel Blog
    • High Tunnel Greenhouse Project >
      • Resources for Educators
      • School High Tunnels
  • Access to Food
    • Local Food Retailers
    • Farmer's Markets
    • CSAs
    • Farm-to-Table Restaurants
    • Food Pantries & Community Resources
  • Sustainable Farming
    • Listing of Local Farms
    • Resources For Established and Aspiring Farmers
  • Traditions
    • Ojibwe Food Traditions
    • FEAST Community Cookbook & Recipes
    • Farm to School Local Foods Recipes
  • Donate