yummybyyemi:

I’m super excited to be working at Weeksville Heritage Center this year. I’ll be managing the farmer’s market, facilitating a youth entrepreneural program and working in the kitchen garden with the Farm manager. The kitchen garden is already coming back to life even though we’re still in February. Check out this budding rhubarb plant. How awesome!

This year, we will be growing and selling heirloom African-American veggies that are were probably grown in Weeksville in the mid to late 1800s.

Not only is this a great picture of some budding rhubarb, it’s also so exciting to learn about the Weeksville Heritage Center and their work in food justice and sustainability.  Also, I’d love to help make some collaboration happen with this farmer’s market and the Greenmarket program of GrowNYC.  Let’s get a collaborative, full city market map made!

Wheat Grass by DJ CAVEM (by greenforall)

<3 Green for All.  Hip hop + sustainability and food justice.

so i have a twitter account now.

follow it if you feel so inclined. food justice and environmental stuff for the most part!

@anth05.  

growfoodraisehell:

Occupy Austin Guerrilla Gardeners make one new public garden every week.  Some have been destroyed the city, others remain and are sprouting vegetables.  We have had run ins with park staff who are confounded by our activities and threaten us with police who never show up. 

We do this to make people rethink notions of food, of where it comes from, of who produces it.  We do this to make people rethink the use of space and the concept of property.  We do this to make people rethink the concept of labor versus employment.  We do this so you will do it to.

(via revolutionnow)

Dive! Trailer (by CompellerFilms)

Recently noticed this documentary about dumpster diving on Netflix instant and couldn’t get through more than 10 minutes of it.  

First off, watching fairly affluent white, straight, etc people (generally male-identified doing the diving) talk about their posh free dining off of our food system’s “waste” is fucked.  

Second, the moment “hungry people of the world” is uttered a shot of black, presumably African (which MUST mean they are poor and hungry), children is presented. 

Third, how in the hell is dumpster diving really activism or working to create solutions? I would argue it’s the opposite.  You are living off of a wasteful system’s waste and I’m fairly sure you aren’t supporting your local food system and helping it grow.

I could go in on this documentary for much longer but basically: if you want to watch a bunch of privileged people eat perfectly good food from a dumpster but not really create solutions: go watch this.  If you want to look at better versions of dumpster diving, look at the organization City Harvest.