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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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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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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
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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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