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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice: Dismantling Diet Culture and Weight Stigma in Food Justice
DESCRIPTION:Farming for Justice: Dismantling Diet Culture and Weight Stigma in Food Justice\n\nWednesday\, April 8th\n12pm-1:30pm EST\nvia Zoom\nThis webinar will be recorded.\n\nRegister Here\n\nDiet culture is a system of beliefs that equates thinness to health and moral virtue. In the United States\, many of us are inundated daily by messages about dieting and weight loss by this $72 billion industry. Given the ways these ideas permeate our cultural landscape\, for many of us our understandings of health are biased by the societal pressure to pursue thinness.\n\nThese ideas certainly show up in the food movement\, like when we make claims about the “obesity epidemic” or unintentionally shame low-income people for their eating habits when we demonize certain foods. A particularly troubling way diet culture thinking shows up in food justice is in the rhetoric we use when discussing perceived relationships between food access and weight that is stigmatizing towards people in larger bodies. These biases ultimately influence the solutions we generate to address problems like food insecurity and our food system at large.\n\n\nDuring this workshop we will define what diet culture is and identify ways it shows up in the narratives we believe and share about the relationship between food and health. We will discuss alternative ways we can challenge the economic and political power industrial agriculture and large food corporations maintain without perpetuating weight stigma and fat discrimination. For those of us invested in food justice and food sovereignty\, liberation forms the basis of the work we do so it is imperative that our work is inclusive of everyone for it to be truly liberatory.\n\nLytisha Wyatt (she/her) is currently social media and communications coordinator at Soul Fire Farm\, where she was also assistant grower and managed poultry operations for two seasons. Lytisha is passionate about envisioning ways we can dismantle the industrial food system\, eliminate food apartheid\, move towards a food sovereign future\, and redefine health without relying on narratives that perpetuate systemic weight discrimination or unintentionally promote disordered eating behaviors. As a land steward\, Lytisha is particularly invested in investigating ways we can (re)create ecological relationships between livestock\, pollinators\, and crops in ways that honors and nourishes the land.\n\n\nRegister Here
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-dismantling-diet-culture-and-weight-stigma-in-food-justice/
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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SUMMARY:Farming For Justice: Trauma and Resilience for Farmers
DESCRIPTION:Farming for Justice March 2020 \nTrauma and Resilience for Farmers \nWednesday\, March 11th \n12-1:30pm EST \nVia Zoom\, recorded \nRegister here. \n  \nHow do trauma and oppression intersect with food systems? Join Kate Downes\, NY FarmNet Outreach Director\, and Adrienne Masler\, local life coach and farm worker\, to explore the impacts of trauma and oppression on the people and communities producing our food. Experiences of isolation\, repression\, exclusion\, and burnout negatively impact the health and well-being of farmers\, food producers\, and food system workers\, which in turn stresses our food systems and broader communities\, both human and ecological. We will discuss what trauma is and how it happens\, review some resources for support and recovery\, and discuss ways to build resilience with a focus on community and relationships as protective factors. \nAdrienne Masler is a farm worker and life coach in Tompkins County. She has both professional and personal interest in trauma and resilience: she teaches tools that have helped her recover and build resilience. Adrienne is combining coaching and farming in creative ways and absolutely loves milking cows. \nKate Downes is the Outreach Director at NY FarmNet helping grow and sustain successful farm operations and healthy farm families throughout New York. In her role\, she’s become a leader on issues of rural and farmer mental health and works cooperatively to provide resources and support systems to the agricultural community. Kate’s work is shaped by a passion for community and an agricultural connection spanning back to her childhood. Kate holds a Master of Science in Sustainable Agriculture and Rural Development from University College Dublin\, Ireland and a Bachelor’s degree from the State University of New York\, College of Agriculture and Technology at Cobleskill. She is the mom of two and the wife of one – and she balances it all by seeking opportunities to get outdoors\, craft\, listen to podcasts\, adventure\, and figure out what just came in her CSA box.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/ffjmar2020/
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T133000
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice: Bridging and Disrupting: Transforming the Emergency Food System
DESCRIPTION:Farming for Justice February 2020 \nBridging and Disrupting: Transforming the emergency food system through community-based practices of growing and sharing food in Appalachia \nWednesday\, February 12th \n12-1:30pm EST \nVia Zoom\, recorded \nRegister here. \n  \nThis presentation and conversation will dive into deeper understanding of the emergency food system\, community-based food system\, and their intersections. In our giving garden models\, we find ourselves uniquely positioned to build bridges throughout the food system at the local level. We are also positioned to go deeper and disrupt norms that perpetuate hunger\, food insecurity\, and inequity in the emergency food system where we work. We ask\, while looking at and leaning into the roots of these\, how can we uplift or shape practices so that they break stigma and reenvision a more just and equitable food system? \nJanice Brewer is the Farm Manager at Root Cause Farm\, where she organizes folks\, in community\, to grow organic food for donation. Janice has been participating in community and emergency food systems since 2013. Her passions lie in leaning into the uncomfortable parts of addressing food insecurity and encouraging folks to explore their inner truths of what connection\, community\, and fulfillment means to them. \nAli Stone works with Root Cause Farm as their Program Manager and is a student at OHSU pursuing a Masters of Science in Food Systems and Society. Ali has leadership experience in community garden development\, teaching\, project management\, and food access advocacy. She continues to grow in understanding how to work within our current food systems while disrupting it; by offering an alternative to food access using an abundance mindset and asset based model. \nKathleen Wood is the Executive Director of Dig In!\, a nonprofit community garden and just food system catalyst based in Yancey County\, NC. Kathleen brings experience as a farmworker\, community organizer\, political advocate\, and social scientist to her work. In her role with Dig In!\, she oversees organic food production\, the development of food distribution and education programs\, and organizes place-based collaborations to create community food security.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/ffjfeb2020/
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200115T133000
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice January 2020: Federal Farm Program Access for Farmers of Color and Historically Underserved Groups
DESCRIPTION:Farming for Justice January 2020 \nFederal Farm Program Access for Farmers of Color and Historically Underserved Groups \nWednesday\, January 15th \n12-1:30pm EST \nVia Zoom\, recorded \nRegister here. \n  \nJoin our first Farming for Justice Discussion Group of 2020 with Ariana Taylor-Stanley\, NE Regional Organizer for Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Coalition\, owner of Here We Are Farm\, will be leading a discussion on Federal Farm Programs and how to access them. She will be highlighting programs for Farmers of Color and other historically underserved groups\, and key points to make these programs easier to access. \n 
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/ffjjan2020/
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191211T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191211T103000
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SUMMARY:December Farming for Justice Discussion Group: Redistributing Resources to Regenerate w/Resource Generation
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, Dec 11 \n9-10:30am EST \nvia Zoom Webinar\, recorded \nRegister here. \n  \n\nLand is directly related to wealth\, and has been a source of historical\, personal and living narratives in which we can all relate with. Jes Kelley\, Political Education Manager of Resource Generation will be leading our monthly discussion group on our relationship to land through personal stories. This connects us to our personal narrative\, while connecting to each other through story telling.\n\nLand Access is a leading prohibitive factor in connecting historically and systemically marginalized people to meaningful and secure land-based livelihoods\, and also a method of genocide through forced displacement and assimilation for native peoples globally.\n\nResource Generation envisions a world in which all communities are powerful\, healthy\, and living in alignment with the planet. A world that is racially and economically just in which wealth\, land and power are shared. Join this cross-class dialogue to explore how our upbringing affects farming access and choices and ways farmers\, especially those with class and/or race privilege can support one another and local communities through redistribution of resources. \nResource Generation organizes young people with wealth and class privilege in the U.S. to become transformative leaders working towards the equitable distribution of wealth\, land and power.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/november-farming-for-justice-discussion-group-redistributing-resources-to-regenerate-w-resource-generation/
LOCATION:ZOOM
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191113T103000
DTSTAMP:20260530T090021
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice Discussion: November - Queering Sustainable Agriculture
DESCRIPTION:November Farming for Justice Discussion Group \nWednesday\, November 13th \n9am-10:30 am \nJoin online via Zoom \n***We are no longer offering these discussion group in person.  \nThere is no cost to join! You’re encouraged to attend in person or join us by Zoom. (Zoom info will be shared once you register.) The discussion will be recorded. \nRegister here. \nThough rarely discussed\, sexuality is an important part of how farms operate. According to the USDA\, 98% of farms in the US are “family farms\,” where a farmer’s business partner is also an intimate partner. As such\, sexuality – who and how we build romantic and sexual relationships with others – affects how and why people farm\, where people farm\, and how farmers access land. Despite its concern with social justice\, the sustainable agriculture movement has yet to fully consider LGBTQ+ issues as a critical point of equity; heteronormativity has remained baked into typical notions of who is a farmer in the US. Queer people are sometimes marginalized within rural and farming communities\, impacting their livelihoods as food producers and as rural queer people. At the same time\, because queer farmers often do not follow typical paths in family and farming\, their experiences offer alternative ideas for organizing home and farm life. In this presentation\, Michaela Hoffelmeyer\, Ike Leslie\, and Jaclyn Wypler will discuss the lived experiences of queer farmers\, drawing on over 100 interviews of queer farmers in the Northeast and Midwest United States. We will discuss barriers and opportunities expressed by queer farmers as well as for the future of the sustainable agriculture movement. \nLearn More About the Speakers\nMichaela (or Mic) is a Rural Sociology Master’s student at Pennsylvania State University. Michaela studies gender\, sexuality\, and sustainable agriculture\, primarily in the US.  \nEmail: mkh40@psu.edu.  \n  \nIsaac (or Ike) is a Sociology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Ike researches queer farmers in New England as well as alternative food systems in Argentina.  \n Email: ileslie2@wisc.edu \nWebsite: isaacleslie.com.  \n  \nJaclyn (or Jac) is a Sociology Ph.D. candidate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Jac studies queer women and transgender sustainable farmers in the Midwest as well as queer farmers in PNW and Australia. She helps organize the Queer Farmer Convergence and loves sharing queer farmer resources.  \nEmail: wypler@wisc.edu Website jaclynwypler.com.  \nContact us with questions or to suggest a topic or speaker. \n 
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-discussion-november-queering-sustainable-agriculture/
LOCATION:Just Be Cause\, 1013 W State St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191008T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191008T103000
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice Discussion: October - How Green is the Green New Deal
DESCRIPTION:October Farming for Justice Discussion Group\nTuesday\, October 8th \n9am-10:30am \nJoin online via Zoom or in-person \nRegister here. \nThis month we welcome a panel featuring Elizabeth Henderson (Peacework Farm\, NOFA Interstate Council)\, Rafael Aponte\, Rocky Acres Community Farm\, Youth Farm Project\, and young leaders from Sunrise Movement Ithaca to discuss the Green New Deal. The discussion will touch on how the Green New Deal affects farmers and farm workers\, eaters and producers. \nThere is no cost to join! You’re encouraged to attend in person or join us by Zoom. (Zoom info will be shared once you register.) \nContact us with questions or to suggest a topic or speaker.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-october-discussion-group-how-does-the-green-new-deal-affect-farms-and-farmworkers/
LOCATION:Just Be Cause\, 1013 W State St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190925T103000
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice - September Discussion Group: How Equity Shapes Groundswell Center
DESCRIPTION:POSTPONED. \n NEW DATE: Wednesday September 25th\, 9am-10:30am \n  \nSeptember Farming for Justice Discussion Group\nWednesday\, September 25th\n9am-10:30am \nJoin online via Zoom\, or in-person @\nJust Be Cause Center\, Ithaca. \nRegister here. \nFor just four years\, we have been actively centering equity into our organization’s efforts internally and externally.  In 2017\, the Equity & Accountability\, staff and Board of Directors published our Equity Statement.  The Statement is now our guide as we develop programs\, recruit instructors\, make decisions\, approach fundraising\, build collaborations and so many facets of the work we do. Join us this month to learn more about Groundswell Center for Local Food & Farming\, hear how our equity efforts and our Statement came to be\, how it’s working and where it’s most challenging for us as a rural beginning farmer organization. And as always\, there will be time for discussion and Q&A. \nThere is no cost to join! You’re encouraged to attend in person or join us by Zoom. (Zoom info will be shared once you register.) \nContact us with questions or to suggest a topic or speaker.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-september-discussion-group-how-our-equity-policy-shapes-our-work-at-groundswell-center/
LOCATION:Just Be Cause\, 1013 W State St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190814T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190814T103000
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice Discussion - August: Addressing Farmer Challenges through Policy Change
DESCRIPTION:August Farming for Justice Discussion Group: Addressing Young Farmer Challenges through State Policy Change. \nWednesday\, August 14th\, 9am – 10:30am \nJoin online via Zoom or in person! \nIn person:\nJust Be Cause Center 1013 W State St. Ithaca\, NY.\nRegister here. \nJoin us this month to hear from David Howard\, the Northeast Campaigns Director with the National Young Farmers Coalition sharing about new New York State and National Policy’s that benefit farmers including loan forgiveness\, new available grants and more!  As always\, there will be time for discussion and q&a. \nThere is no cost to join! You’re encouraged to attend in-person or join us by Zoom. (Zoom info will be shared once you register.) \nContact us with questions or to suggest a topic or speaker.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-august-discussion-group/
LOCATION:Just Be Cause\, 1013 W State St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190710T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190710T193000
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice - July Discussion Group: Experiences of Food Insecurity at Cornell University - Panel feat. Marquan Jones\, Cornell 2020
DESCRIPTION:Register here.\n\nWhat role do we see ourselves playing in racial/economic justice work? What are the barriers we face and how can we support each other to step into further action?\n\nJuly’s Farming for Justice Discussion Group will be featuring Cornell Student Marquan Jones\, Developmental Sociology\, ’20\, discussing food insecurity in the Cornell University educational establishment\, who will be joined by Kathleen Pasetty\, owner of Manndible Cafe. This is an important and often overlooked aspect of institutional education\, and hopefully this month’s discussion group will bring light to the injustice within certain food systems\, and also discuss potential solutions or ways to offset this prevalent issue.\n\nPlease note this months Discussion group will be on a Wednesday evening\, from 6-7:30pm EST\, in hopes to create a larger Farming for Justice network\, cultivating relationships at the intersection of farmers\, food workers\, consumers\, and advocates\, bringing our minds together for justice and equity within the farming and food industry.\n\n\nThere is no cost to join! You’re encouraged to attend in person at the Groundswell Center office\, or join us by Zoom. (Zoom info will be shared once you register.)\nContact us with questions or to suggest a topic or speaker.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-july-discussion-group-food-insecurity-in-educational-institutions/
LOCATION:Groundswell Center Office\, 225 S Fulton St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190618T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190618T103000
DTSTAMP:20260530T090021
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice - June Discussion Group: Equitable Fresh Food Access - Panel feat. VINES Farm Share
DESCRIPTION:Registration here. \nWhat role do we see ourselves playing in racial/economic justice work? What are the barriers we face and how can we support each other to step into further action? \nThis month\, we will be hosting a panel featuring Kate Miller-Corcoran\, of VINES Farm Share\, Stephanie Roberts from Shared Roots Farm (VINES Partner Farm) and Lorna Swaine-Abdallah\, VINES Farm Share volunteer and Graduate of the Food Bank Southern Tier Speakers’ Bureau (Expert by Experience). We will be discussing Community Supported Agriculture\, and its role in creating equitable food access\, and ways to improve on food insecurity within the community scope. Our hope is to engage farmers and consumers to create likemindedness around equity within the food system. \nThere is no cost to join! You’re encouraged to attend in person at the Groundswell Center office\, or join us by Zoom. (Zoom info will be shared once you register.)\nContact us with questions or to suggest a topic or speaker.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-june-discussion-group-equitable-fresh-food-access-panel-feat-vines-farm-share/
LOCATION:Groundswell Center Office\, 225 S Fulton St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190508T103000
DTSTAMP:20260530T090021
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED! Farming for Justice - Regulatory Agencies Roles & Policies: impact on small and SDA farmers
DESCRIPTION:Joining us for May’s Discussion group will be Ariana Taylor-Stanley\, of the National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition. We will be focusing on Regulatory Agencies Roles & Policies\, and their impact on small and socially disadvantaged farmers. We will also be reviewing the Farm Bill\, since its passing in December. The goal for this month is to make this information more accessible for you. \nCancelled!! \n*** \nWhat role do we see ourselves playing in racial/economic justice work? What are the barriers we face and how can we support each other to step into further action? Through dialogue\, education\, and action planning\, we’ll begin to explore the answers. \n**Join the discussion in-person or via video conference.** Once you register\, you will be emailed the Zoom login information. \nFARMING FOR JUSTICE IS A MONTHLY MEETING FOR FARMERS\, FOOD PRODUCERS\, AND FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS INTERESTED IN DIGGING INTO THE INTERSECTION OF FOOD\, AGRICULTURE\, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-regulatory-agencies-roles-policies/
LOCATION:Groundswell Center Office\, 225 S Fulton St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190409T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190409T103000
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SUMMARY:Farming For Justice Discussion w/ True Love Seeds
DESCRIPTION:Register HERE \nWhat role do we see ourselves playing in racial/economic justice work? What are the barriers we face and how can we support each other to step into further action? \nFor this April’s discussion group\, we will be hosting Owen Taylor from True Love Seeds via ZOOM as our presenter and discussion facilitator to explore these questions. \nIn this workshop\, we will discuss how themes of food justice\, cultural preservation\, and economic development intersect with seed keeping and seed sovereignty work at Truelove Seeds and beyond. \nOwen shares with us: “Keeping seeds connects us to our past and to our collective future. When we keep our seeds\, we hold onto our freedom. For 10\,000 years we have been an agricultural species\, and at the heart of agriculture is the selecting\, saving\, and replanting of seeds. In the combining of cultures in North America through early indigenous trade routes\, colonization\, genocide\, enslavement\, immigration\, and the seeking of refuge\, all people have had to struggle to maintain their rich cultural heritages\, and many continue to struggle to simply stay alive. Like language\, religion\, and dance\, food and agriculture hold some of the most important keys to who we are as people – literally providing and preserving the tastes of our homelands. \n“Just Food defines food justice this way: ‘Food Justice is communities exercising their right to grow\, sell\, and eat healthy food. Healthy food is fresh\, nutritious\, affordable\, culturally-appropriate\, and grown locally with care for the well-being of the land\, workers\, and animals’. Truelove Seeds was developed as a way to support small-scale community-based farmers (most of whom embody and practice food justice explicitly) in producing seeds of their “culturally-appropriate” foods as a way to make these often hard-to-find varieties available to their community and beyond\, and as a way to bring in extra support and funding for their work.”\n\nThere is no cost to join! You’re encouraged to attend in person at the Groundswell Center office\, or join us by Zoom. (Zoom info will be shared once you register.)\nContact us with questions or to suggest a topic or speaker.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-discussion-group-april/
LOCATION:Groundswell Center Office\, 225 S Fulton St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190314T103000
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SUMMARY:Canceled: March Farming for Justice
DESCRIPTION:Note: There is no Farming for Justice this week but we encourage you to check out the Farming While Black Book Tour w/ Leah Penniman on March 7th instead. More info…
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/canceled-march-farming-for-justice/
LOCATION:Groundswell Center Office\, 225 S Fulton St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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SUMMARY:Land Access & Reparations Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Updated Thursday March 7th. \nPlease note: The morning session is full.  The afternoon has very limited space. To stay up to date about land access & reparations follow up events and efforts\, Please Fill out the form HERE. \nAccess to land has been named as the #1 barrier for farmers of color to advance their work to feed the community and for Indigenous people to maintain their culture and sovereignty. White landowners currently control between 95-98% of the farmland in the United States and nearly 100% in the northeast. This is not an accident of history. The food system is build on the stolen land of Indigenous people and the forced labor and forced displacement of Black & Brown people from our ancestral territories. The settler colonial projects of genocide\, slavery\, war\, lynching\, forced migration\, broken treaties\, exploitative trade agreements\, and capitalism stand in the way of the restoration of that relationship with earth. \nThere is a way forward. In the northeast\, we are seeing a “groundswell” of efforts toward land reparations and rematriation. The Native Land Conservancy is reclaiming territory for the Wampanoag through cultural respect agreements. The Northeast Farmers of Color Land Trust is preparing to hold lands collectively for dozens of BIPOC* farmers across the region. We are building on the legacy of New Communities Land Trust\, Freedom Farms\, Dudley Street Neighborhood Initiative\, and other BIPOC led land stewardship projects to reinvision land ownership in the region. \nOn March 8\, we bring together farmers\, community organizations\, extension\, local businesses\, schools\, funders\, lawmakers\, lenders\, and the faith community to create an action plan for land access and reparations in the Finger Lakes. The workshop will be 10% theory and 90% action\, so come prepared to roll up your sleeves and collaborate with community members to rethink land distribution in the region. We will create a plan to advance land sovereignty in the Finger Lakes through permanent and secure land tenure for those currently without access. \n*Black\, Indigenous\, and People of Color \nThis day of ACTION PLANNING includes engaging presentations\, interactive workshops & discussions. \nMorning Session: 10am – 1pm \, Open to All: Understand land access challenges historically and today. Explore the role every sector can play to support land access and reparations issues\, challenges and opportunities for equity. \nAfternoon Session: 2pm – 5pm \, BIPOC – only: Land based reparations and action steps for making farming and land ownership a reality in the Finger Lakes (BIPOC representatives from organizations and agencies from the morning are encouraged to join this afternoon session.) \nPlease note: The morning session is full.  The afternoon has very limited space. To stay up to date about land access & reparations follow up events and efforts\, Please Fill out the form HERE. \n  \nThe workshop is free\, donations welcome. Snacks provided\, lunch will be on your own. Childcare available. \nThis workshop directly follows Leah Penniman’s Farming While Black book tour event on March 7th. See the details… \nThank you to our event sponsors: Glynwood\, Full Plate Farm Collective\, Home Green Home\, Food Forest Farm and collaborators Rootworks Herbals\, Youth Farm Project. \nInterested in sponsoring this event? Click here for more info.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/landaccess/
LOCATION:Tompkins County Public Library\, 101 E Green St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850\, United States
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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SUMMARY:Farming While Black Book Tour in Ithaca\, NY
DESCRIPTION:To Register:  Click HERE \nMeet Leah Penniman and hear her talk about her new book “Farming while Black”\nThursday March 7th 6:30pm @ Tompkins County Public Library\, Ithaca.\nSuggested donation $5\, nobody turned away. \nLeah Penniman visits Ithaca again this year! View our Past Events Page to see video of Leah’s Keynote at the Southside Community Center last year during the Spring Into Justice Event. \nInterested in sponsoring this event? Click here for more info. \nThanks to our event collaborators Rootworks Herbals\, Youth Farm Project. \nFollowing this event is a Land Access & Reparations Discussion Session open to the community. More details here… \nAbout the book\, Farming While Black \nIn 1920\, 14 percent of all land-owning US farmers were black. Today less than 2 percent of farms are controlled by black people―a loss of over 14 million acres and the result of discrimination and dispossession. While farm management is among the whitest of professions\, farm labor is predominantly brown and exploited\, and people of color disproportionately live in “food apartheid” neighborhoods and suffer from diet-related illness. The system is built on stolen land and stolen labor and needs a redesign. \nFarming While Black is the first comprehensive “how to” guide for aspiring African-heritage growers to reclaim their dignity as agriculturists and for all farmers to understand the distinct\, technical contributions of African-heritage people to sustainable agriculture. At Soul Fire Farm\, author Leah Penniman co-created the Black and Latinx Farmers Immersion (BLFI) program as a container for new farmers to share growing skills in a culturally relevant and supportive environment led by people of color. Farming While Black organizes and expands upon the curriculum of the BLFI to provide readers with a concise guide to all aspects of small-scale farming\, from business planning to preserving the harvest. Throughout the chapters Penniman uplifts the wisdom of the African diasporic farmers and activists whose work informs the techniques described―from whole farm planning\, soil fertility\, seed selection\, and agroecology\, to using whole foods in culturally appropriate recipes\, sharing stories of ancestors\, and tools for healing from the trauma associated with slavery and economic exploitation on the land. Woven throughout the book is the story of Soul Fire Farm\, a national leader in the food justice movement. \nThe technical information is designed for farmers and gardeners with beginning to intermediate experience. For those with more experience\, the book provides a fresh lens on practices that may have been taken for granted as ahistorical or strictly European. Black ancestors and contemporaries have always been leaders―and continue to lead―in the sustainable agriculture and food justice movements. It is time for all of us to listen. \nThanks to Event Sponsors: \nHarmony Level  \n \nSolidarity Level \n   
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/fwb/
LOCATION:Tompkins County Public Library\, 101 E Green St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850\, United States
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190213T103000
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SUMMARY:Farming for Justice February: Farm to People Panel
DESCRIPTION:Discussion this month: Farm to People Panel: Farm to School\, Affordable CSA’s\, Farmer/Food Bank Tax Break\nJoin us in person or remotely via video conference. \nRSVP HERE \nHear from 3 panelists on three of the ways Central New York farmers can provide fresh food to low income people and get paid! Join \n\nMissy Knowles\, the Food Sourcing Manager from the Food Bank of the Southern Tier: Beginning with tax year 2018\, a refundable credit is available for eligible farmers that makes a qualified donation or is the owner of a business entity that makes a qualified donation to an eligible food pantry operating in New York. The credit equals 25% of the fair market value (FMV) of qualified donations made to any eligible food pantry operating in New York during the tax year\, not to exceed $5\,000. \nErin Summerlee\, Director\, Food & Health Network: Theres’a new farm to school reimbursement incentive in NYS that says if schools spend 30% of their school lunch budget on food grown and processed in NY they can receive an additional $0.19/meal from NY. Right now they receive $0.06/meal from NY (in addition to federal funds). The hope is that this generates more demand from schools for local products\, and gives them additional financial resources to purchase from local producers.\nLiz Karabinakis\, Director of Healthy Food for All and a TBD participating farmer: HFFA works with farmers to people with limited income CSA shares via their subsidized CSA program.  This is a unique opportunity for WIC and Food Stamp eligible households to purchase an organic share at half the regular cost.\n\n**Join the discussion in-person or via video conference.** Once you register\, you will be emailed the Zoom login information. \nFARMING FOR JUSTICE IS A MONTHLY MEETING FOR FARMERS\, FOOD PRODUCERS\, AND FOOD SYSTEM WORKERS INTERESTED IN DIGGING INTO THE INTERSECTION OF FOOD\, AGRICULTURE\, AND SOCIAL JUSTICE.
URL:https://groundswellcenter.org/events/farming-for-justice-feb/
LOCATION:Groundswell Center Office\, 225 S Fulton St\, Ithaca\, NY\, 14850
CATEGORIES:Farming for Justice
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