FEED Festival

10/26/2021

Our struggle with the City of Greensboro is OVER!!! We did it! Yes, to urban agriculture! Yes, to urban homesteading! Yes, you can grow sustainable food in the middle of a food desert!!! Now on to rebuilding our fence! THANK YOU, FRIENDS & FAMILY! YOU ARE THE TRUE MVPS!

BIG S/O to the following for lending us their muscle and brains (free eggs for LIFE):
Ethan James
Wes Elam
Kenzi Wyatt
Alice Sharp
Kathy Clark
Katie Rabideau (and her kiddo)
Asa Archer (including Max & Sid the super kid)
Julie Bullard
Robert Glenn (known to my kids as Uncle BB)
Fanta Turay
Mike Forster (my baby brother)
Joey Forster (my other baby brother)
Mindy Wolf (my sweet momma)

And all the others who donated to the fundraiser (link in the bio)!!! Thank you so much! Love y'all!

12/07/2020

So sad

"We have lived under economic terrorism for decades," said Georgia farmer Eddie Slaughter. Subsidies issued during Covid-19 are just another form of exclusion, he and other farmers say.

01/26/2020

Dr. Regina Bernard-Carreno was born and raised in Hells Kitchen, NYC. She is a graduating pioneer of the African American Studies Master's Degree Program at Columbia University. She completed her M.Phil and Ph.D. Degrees in Urban Education at CUNY's Graduate Center. Having taught in graduate programs at various colleges, she is now an assistant professor of Black and Latino Studies at Baruch College, CUNY, where her courses are particularly focused on race, class, and food activism. She is the author of Black and Brown Waves: The Cultural Politics of Young Women of Color and Feminism (2009), and Nuyorganics: Organic Intellectualism, the Search for Racial Identity, and Nuyorican Thought (2010).

Her third book, Say it Loud: Black Power, Black Studies and Collegiate Culture will be published in late 2013. She has also authored pieces for a wide variety of books, collected editions, and in the Journal of Pan African Studies. Dr. Bernard-Carreno has been actively researching and writing about the cultural performance of food, food access and food racism in low income neighborhoods in New York City and abroad. Along with researching and writing, Dr. Bernard-Carreno has been designing scholarly projects and community products based on food access in poor NYC areas.

http://tedxmanhattan.org Dr. Regina Bernard-Carreno was born and raised in Hells Kitchen, NYC. She is a graduating pioneer of the African American Studies Ma...

01/21/2020

Still going!

The beverage maker agreed to pay a fine of $5 million after pleading guilty to two felony offenses earlier this month

10/08/2019

What are we gonna do about it?

President Donald Trump’s agriculture secretary said Tuesday during a stop in Wisconsin that he doesn’t know if the family dairy farm can survive as the industry moves toward a factory farm model

08/28/2019

Hey NC....

In September 2016, with Tropical Storm Hermine bearing down on North Carolina, Kemp Burdette rented a single-engine plane and flew over Duplin County. Burdette, a riverkeeper with the environmental…

07/12/2019

Fresh is best!

06/12/2019

This is such an overwhelming problem. Interspersed Meals on Wheels programs is NOT enough to address it.

Already half of older Americans are malnourished or at risk of being malnourished, the Senate Aging Committee was told at a recent hearing.

06/04/2019

Yeah, about that....

And its ripple effects are stronger than you think

06/03/2019

Tis the season!

06/03/2019

This isn't the way it needs to be

Trump wants you to think most farms are small family holdings, but multimillion-dollar enterprises will collect most of his tariff bailout money.