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Cultivating Leadership and Equity in the Food Movement 7 Apr 2013 | 02:39 am
The IATP Food and Community Fellows Program is coming to an end, but it's springtime for our work growing equity in the food system and cultivating diverse leadership in the movement. An overarching ...
Turning Teachers into Gardeners 30 Mar 2013 | 12:06 am
Originally published in the Washington Post. Spring brings one of the best parts of gardening: choosing and buying seeds. It’s a time of excitement and promise, a safe distance away from the hard wor...
I Say Tomahto, You Say Exploitation 27 Mar 2013 | 12:02 am
First published on the Huffington Post. What's the quickest way to get thrown out of a Publix supermarket? Is it a) to run naked through the aisles, b) to point and yell 'horsemeat!' at the deli coun...
Soil & Sacrament: Fred Bahnson at TEDxManhattan 2013 22 Mar 2013 | 06:05 pm
From monks raising oyster mushrooms in South Carolina to Pentecostal coffee roasters in Washington to young Jewish farmers in Connecticut, Fred Bahnson tells the stories of a vibrant and hopeful new A...
Shopping Matters 15 Mar 2013 | 09:00 am
Three adults squatted in the cereal aisle of the Key Foods grocery store in the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood of Brooklyn. Each had plucked a different kind of oatmeal from one of the lower shelves....
Food + Justice = Democracy: LaDonna Redmond at TEDxManhattan 2013 8 Mar 2013 | 12:21 am
LaDonna Redmond joined the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy in 2011 as the Senior Program Associate in Food and Justice. A long-time community activist, she has successfully worked to get Ch...
Misanthropocene? On preparing for climate catastrophe. 7 Mar 2013 | 11:06 pm
From the Earth Island Journal's special issue on the Anthropocene age. My first earthquake happened at four in the morning, when some small god picked up my apartment building and shook it lightly be...
Too Many U.S. Communities Are 'First Food Deserts' 5 Mar 2013 | 10:49 pm
This article originally appeared in Women's E-News. The scene plays out like a page from the Charles Dickens classic, "A Tale of Two Cities." In some communities in America there are breastfeeding ca...
Why I’m walking 200 miles with the Immokalee Workers 4 Mar 2013 | 10:48 pm
This article originally appeared in Waging Nonviolence. Two hundred miles is a long way in a car. I imagine it takes about three hours of highway driving. So why on earth would I agree to walk it? Be...
Is Your Community "First Food Friendly?" Join the Movement! 22 Feb 2013 | 11:32 pm
All across America, in far too many communities, women leave their local hospital after giving birth only to enter a community that is a virtual desert of breastfeeding support: Limited access to lact...
