Injustice in the Food System
Like many other structures in place in our country and community, it’s no secret that our food system was created on a foundation of institutional racism and discrimination. African people were...
View ArticleFood Apartheid | Why we should change the way we talk about food deserts
There’s some more history here “…approximately 98% of the arable acreage in this country is white-owned, which is an all-time high, and that is no accident of history, right? You can start with the...
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Farm Worker Rights in the USA
In the United States today, 75% of farmworkers are immigrants or migrant workers, while the majority of managers and landowners are white. The Fair Standard Labor Act (FSLA) provides most workers in...
View ArticleGleaning
Traditionally defined as the gathering of anything left over after a harvest, gleaning is an ancient form of food recovery that is making an amazing modern recovery. Picking leftover crops for the...
View ArticleArk of Taste
Developed and maintained by the global Slow Food movement, Ark of Taste is a “living catalog of delicious and distinctive foods facing extinction”. Their catalog showcases over 5,200 “edible...
View ArticleSenior Hunger and Isolation Amidst COVID-19
Despite being often overlooked in discussions of hunger and poverty, food insecurity is increasing for seniors- especially for seniors experiencing poverty. According to the National Council on Aging...
View ArticleImperfect “Ugly” Produce
In the U.S., we annually waste up to 40% of our food. This includes produce left in the field and not harvested, to consumers throwing food away, to grocery stores getting rid of imperfect or ‘B’...
View ArticleSeasonal Eating
In our modern world, only remnants of seasonal eating habits still remain in our daily life. Our hunter-gatherer and agricultural ancestors, however, relied completely on foraged wild foods and...
View ArticleWhat is Food Insecurity?
First, let’s unpack the difference between being food insecure and hunger: Food Insecurity The USDA defines food insecurity as “households [that] are uncertain of having, or unable to acquire, at some...
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The Green Urban Lunch Box Turns 10!
In 2010, Shawn was sailing around the world and had an interaction with someone growing tomatoes and other garden variety plants in the bed of their truck. He chewed on this for a while and thought,...
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