New notes are available now for this Teach-in session: How to Grow your Own Food in an Apartment and Feed Your Worms Too. Thank you to Seattle Tilth for providing these two hand-outs at the session, which have great information on how to do container gardening and growing vegetables without much available space. Click on [...]
Will Allen, an urban farmer and the founder of Growing Power in Milwaukee, was named a MacArthur Fellow in 2008. The Fellowship is a $500,000 unrestricted grant for individuals who have shown extraordinary originality and dedication in their creative pursuits and a marked capacity for self-direction. For more information about Will Allen’s work see the [...]
On Monday February 9, 2009, two CAGJ-ers attended the Seattle Chef’s Collaborative Farmer Chef Connection event, held at Herban Feast in SODO. The Farmer Chef Connection was an all-day conference, bringing together regional food producers and buyers for business-to-business networking, presentations & workshops. The event featured talks by chef and restaurateur Tom Douglas and culinary consultant and chef instructor, Greg Atkinson, [...]
We are very excited to post notes from many of the sessions during our Teach-in, which happened this past December. Thank you to all the volunteer note-takers who compiled this information for us! Click here to view the session notes in a PDF document. Please feel free to browse these notes to get a feel [...]
The site http://www.whitehousefarmer.com/ was launched in November 2008 as a forum to follow up on Michael Pollan’s call for a White House Farmer. Pollan suggested the farmer be charged with transforming “five prime south-facing acres of the White House lawn and plant[ing] in their place an organic fruit and vegetable garden” whose produce will be [...]
The Center for Social Inclusion has now made available the “Structural Racism and the Food Systems” presentation from a webinar held in March 2008. Please click here to visit their website and find out more about these discussions around structural racism and our food communities. The Center for Social Inclusion (CSI) was founded in New [...]
On November 19, 2008, Maya Wiley spoke at the Politics of Food: A Conference on New York’s Next Policy Challenge. Maya spoke on the relationship between our food system – from the farm to the cash register – and racial disparities in the US, and how a race-conscious effort to reform how we feed the [...]
Sunday March 1st, 7 – 10pm Ruby Shuz & SUPERSONES Come enjoy groovy tunes & good vibes & help CAGJ raise crucial funds for 2009 organizing! Bring your friends!! $7 suggested donation (no one turned away) Location: Nectar Lounge in Fremont, 412 N. 36th St., Seattle WA 98103 21 & over only (sorry!) SuperSones play [...]
On the occasion of World Food Day, Grassroots International and the National Family Farm Coalition are pleased to announce the release of Food for Thought And Action: A Food Sovereignty Curriculum. The curriculum is accessible online and relevant to folks interested in the impact of agricultural and trade policies on farmers and other small producers (most [...]
