The Food Justice Project works to connect the local food and sustainable agriculture movements to broader struggles for justice. We have two overarching objectives: (1) Making local, sustainably and humanely produced food accessible to everyone regardless of race, class, ethnicity, ability, religion, citizenship, or community. (2) Working in solidarity with small farmers and immigrant workers in strengthening the Washington state food system. Through anti-oppressive and anti-racist organizing we seek to challenge the global reach of the industrial and corporate-driven food system. We promote existing alternatives to the dominant model of agriculture, as we join the global struggle for food sovereignty for all!
Here is some information on two of our upcoming projects. We can always use more help if you’d like to get involved! Email fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org for ways to get involved.
Click here to see a YouTube video slideshow highlighting the Food Justice Project’s two main projects!
Teach-outs: CAGJ visits local farms & food sites!
CAGJ’s Food Justice Project invites our members and others to learn about and build connections with key players in the local food region through monthly visits to farms, community kitchens, and community gardens! The site visits will include hands-on work that is needed by or is appropriate to the sites, opportunities to debrief and reflect at the end of the site visit, and calls to action! These visits will allow CAGJ members and supporters to gain a grounded understanding of how these sites work and how they relate to the local food economy. We hope to facilitate the connections between the sites that we visit, and aim for an experience that is mutually beneficial to CAGJ, our members, and the host site. CAGJ hopes to facilitate a place for the voices of our local food producers to be heard and their knowledge and skills to be recognized and celebrated.
Please note, space is limited for all Teach-Outs, so RSVP’s are required. To RSVP, or for more information, please email Molly at fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org or call the CAGJ office at (206) 405-4600.
2010 Teach-Outs:
Saturday July 31: Refugee Farming Project in Auburn. This project is in its second year as an initiative of Burst for Prosperity. The purpose is to give local refugees a means to develop their own financial security, build assets, and further connect with their larger community.
Sunday August 22: Laughing Crow Farm on Bainbridge Island, in conjunction with Friends of the Farms (formerly the Trust for Working Landscapes), followed by a potluck!
Friday-Saturday Sept 24-25: Overnight to Yakima to visit RicOrganics Growers Cooperative, Alvarez Farm, and to learn about struggles over water issues in Eastern WA. A focus of this Teach-Out will be to learn about the challenges and opportunities facing migrant farmworkers.
Reportback from our first Teach-out from 2010, Spring into Bed!
Read accounts of our 2009 visits to Island Meadow Farm on Vashon Island, UW Farm and Fisherman’s Terminal, the Umojafest Peace Center and Danny Woo Garden, or Jubilee and Local Roots Farms.
“Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice”
Our Food, Our Right: Recipes for Food Justice is a new CAGJ Food Justice Project publication (72 pages) that combines hands-on tools for change with community recipes and political awareness to engage YOU in joining in the struggle for food justice! Our Food, Our Right promotes community knowledge sharing, self-sufficiency, accessibility, and food justice through a food sovereignty framework.
Our Food, Our Right takes you on a journey through many of the current food system’s failures, and showcases creative solutions that communities are designing to regain control over their food, and the health of their bodies and neighborhoods. This guide has the tools you need to take back your food choices and stand up for all people’s right to good, healthy, and culturally appropriate food!
Topics include:
- Composting and container gardening
- Effects of NAFTA and the WTO on farmers and food
- Basics of food preservation: canning, pickling, freezing, and drying
- Stories of Change: Food Justice Around the World
- Farmworker Organizing in Washington State
- CSA’s, farmers’ markets, and community kitchens
- Local community resources for getting involved in strengthening local food economies, everywhere!
…..and MUCH more! Also features illustrations and design by local artists!
How much does it cost?
In an effort to make this guide as accessible as possible, we are offering Our Food, Our Right for $5 – $20, sliding scale donation! Bulk discount: Buy 5 for $50!
The guide is valued at $15; if you are able to pay $20 or more, you help us subsidize 100 free copies that will be distributed to local food justice organizations serving disadvantaged communities, as well as food banks, shelters, and community centers.
How can you get Our Food, Our Right?
Order online!
Visit us at the CAGJ office to purchase your copy! 606 Maynard Ave. S. #252, 98104 in the International District of Seattle
Questions?
For more information about Our Food, Our Right, email fjp@seattleglobaljustice.org or call (206) 405-4600
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