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  • Moving Meat

    September 12, 2018 |

    Urban Omnibus |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    Eagle Bridge, a small-scale Hudson Valley slaughterhouse, works to bring non-feedlot, regional meats to New York City. While demand for sustainable meat products is growing, competition with national feedlot operations has made setting up distribution systems a challenge.

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  • Democratizing Food

    September 11, 2018 |

    The Philadelphia Citizen |

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    Response Location: United States, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

    Haile Johnston and Tatiana Garcia Granados both grew up in homes where gardening, farming, and access to fresh produce were important. When they found out how much middlemen distributors in America profit from selling produce at the expense of farmers, they started the Common Market. As a non-profit wholesale distributor, the Common Market makes fresh, local produce accessible to large institutions as well as individuals. Their work has supported over 1000 farmers.

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  • This Food Truck Owner Wants to Decolonize Your Diet

    August 28, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    A food truck in a Detroit Latinx neighborhood offers “decolonized” food—food made up of staples of the Latinx culture before colonization. In this way, the truck—and other community activists working on food issues—hopes to make healthy food available and promote healthier eating.

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  • No crop left behind: NH Gleans harvests for food equity, access

    August 26, 2018 |

    Seacoast Online |

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    Response Location: United States, New Hampshire

    NH Gleans is group of gleaners in New Hampshire working to ensure food security in their communities. The group gathers food that would otherwise go to waste and distributes it to local food kitchens, schools, and food pantries. In the last five years they have distributed almost half a million pounds of fruits and vegetables in a state where 1 in 10 people is food insecure.

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  • Two Detroit residents, one lifelong and one new, look to start small-scale neighborhood grocery

    August 14, 2018 |

    Model D |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Some Detroit residents can soon trade the long commute to big chain grocery stores for Neighborhood Grocery, a new store with local produce intended to actually cater to the needs of the customers it will serve. Other benefits include job creation, reduction of food waste, and food items that residents help choose. Local organizations are providing funding to get the grocery off the ground.

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  • Tomato Canning as Protest: How a Community Resisted Corporate Farming

    August 07, 2018 |

    Yes! Magazine |

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    Response Location: United States, Missouri

    Production agriculture has put many small town, local farmers out of business, changing the landscape of the communities they've been pushed out of. One town in Missouri is fighting against this by joining together to preserve the importance of local control by nurturing a tradition of canning tomatoes.

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  • Becoming a Farmer the Community Way

    August 07, 2018 |

    The Tyee |

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    Response Location: Canada, Yarrow, British Columbia

    Canada is quickly approaching a farming shortage, as elder farmers look to retire from the practice with no succession plan in place for future generations. Yarrow Ecovillage, a land-sharing project, may be the answer to the impending food-insecurity issue that will accompany this decline in farm production.

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  • Feeding—and healing—the hood

    July 20, 2018 |

    The NM Political Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Albuquerque, New Mexico

    Project Feed the Hood, a community effort to increase food access and security for lower-income families, has established gardens and pilot programs at ten schools in Albuquerque. The program originally aimed to convert lawns into gardens while giving youth an alternative to military recruitment. Now, it is run by community volunteers and also offers paid internships for youth. “We’re here to resist, to reclaim our food systems, our community spaces,” explains one of the project's dedicated staff members.

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  • Pop-Up Kitchen Counters Mainstream Narratives about Food in Detroit

    July 18, 2018 |

    Next City |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Community dinners can highlight locally sourced ingredients, shine a light on food systems and their impact, and create solidarity among cooks and attendees. The Dream Cafe, a pop-up restaurant using food from Detroit’s urban farms, highlighted the impact of food systems on communities of color and brought together organizers from different sectors for a meal.

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  • This 'matha' in Karnataka's Hubli town could give our big cities a lesson in waste management!

    July 03, 2018 |

    Citizen Matters |

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    Response Location: India, Hubli

    In Hubli, a holy shrine of Advaita philosophy has a community kitchen that produces surprisingly little waste--even though it feeds about 6,000 people daily. The kitchen's methods are quite old, including composting and watering with grey water, but they appear to be working.

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