New England Food System Resilience Fund Makes First Grants

From The John Merck Fund, one of FSNE’s network partners NEWS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 20, 2020 New philanthropic collaborative supports region’s farmers and food producers in responding to COVID-19

Rose Colored Racism

Guest post by Chris Gagliolo, special to FSNE for the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge My name is Chris Gagliolo. I am from Peabody, MA which is a suburb about

Guest Post: You’ve got Grandma’s eyes

By Michelle Cruz My hands…dirty from hours in the soil toiled by the ancestors My skin…glistening to deep mocha as I soak in our same sun…deep earth…revolutions apart My plants…think

We Need to Talk

Guest post by Michele Holt-Shannon of New Hampshire Public Radio special to FSNE for the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge We Need to Talk I sat on a C &

Food Access, Equity and Covid-19: A Food System Dispatch from Boston

Guest post from Shani Fletcher, special to the FSNE for the 21-Day Racial Equity Habit-Building Challenge Hello! I write to you all from my Dorchester, Massachusetts, home, where I have

The Evolving Story of a Network Innovation: FSNE’s 21 Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

Shared from the blog of the Interaction Institute for Social Change by Curtis Ogden “I believe that the struggle for racial and social justice provides an unparalleled lens through which

Food sovereignty to include New England fisheries

Originally published on Seacoast Online. By David Goethel Posted Oct 31, 2019 at 11:43 AMUpdated Oct 31, 2019 at 12:07 PM According to a study released in 2012 by the

Participatory Methods and Approaches for Equitable Food Systems Work

Guest post by Curtis Ogden of the Interaction Institute for Social Change “Nothing about us without us is for us.” South African slogan “What is missing from the policy analyst’s

Walking the democracy talk

Guest post by Cathy Stanton, resident of North-central Massachusetts Even here in the bluest of states, there were splotches of red in the 2016 election, and our store is in
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Who Fishes Matters: The Impacts of Industrial Fishing on Women’s Lives

This story originally appeared in WhyHunger’s publication “Through Her Eyes: The Struggle for Food Sovereignty” for International Women’s Day 2017. We know that women are responsible for 60-80% of food production in the