Teach Out! Engaging the Local Food Cycle! – Sixth Event Saturday, Oct. 24th 10am-2pm (there will be a carpool from the CAGJ office – please get in touch or stay tuned for more details closer to the date!) Our visit to Duvall will introduce you to Black Dollar Days Task Force’s program, Clean Greens Farm [...]
As we move forward this fall in finishing the first edition of the Food Justice Project’s activist guide and recipe book “Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice”, we are still looking for RECIPE SUBMISSIONS, creative art and poetry, and whatever else you think should be included! Now is the time to submit your [...]
CAGJ is honored to have been awarded the Food Sovereignty Honorable Mention Prize, along with the Toronto Food Policy Council and the International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (Kenya). La Via Campesina – the international movement of peasants who introduced the idea of “food sovereignty” – won the prize. Central Co-op’s Madison Market nominated [...]
Research by two CAGJ activists involved in the AGRA Watch project, which is monitoring and questioning the Gates Foundation-funded Alliance for a Green Revolution in Africa, was cited by three internationally recognized writers on the global food crisis in the Nation magazine in September (issue on the newsstands by Sept. 21). In the article titled [...]
Article from Richard Conlin’s email newsletter: Making it Work September 9, 2009, Volume XI, Issue 8 On Monday, August 10, the Council adopted a resolution beginning the next stage of the City’s work with King County to protect the agricultural properties that supply Seattle’s food. Resolution 31147, adopted 8-1 (McIver voting no) declared the City [...]
We are still looking for more people to contribute to the Food Justice Project’s activist guide and recipe book! Our Food, Our Right is a community recipe book and activist resource guide that that promotes self-sufficiency and knowledge sharing, through a food sovereignty framework. The guide seeks to increase access to information on issues such [...]
Thanks so much to everyone who came and supported CAGJ at our 2009 Strengthening Local Economies, Everywhere! Fair and Dinner! More photos are coming soon, here is just a taste…
Next Teach Out! – Saturday October 24th: Visit Clean Greens Farm in Duvall! Save the date for the next event in our Teach Out! series – more details coming soon! For more information on Clean Greens Farm, click here. CAGJ’s Food Justice Project invites our members and others to learn about and build connections with [...]
