It Takes a Village – A Community Effort to Dissolve Cape Kids’ Hunger

A Community Effort to Dissolve Cape Kids’ Hunger by Eileen Morris and courtesty of Edible Cape Cod A broad warehouse-like structure looms on Queen Anne Road in Harwich, among a
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Building Civic Muscle for Food Resilience

In our region, the Connecticut River Valley in Massachusetts, there is a lot of talk right now amongst community food organizations about the whiteness of the majority of people leading
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My Time on the Line

The Shah Family Foundation has been working closely with The Boston Public Schools Food and Nutritional Services and the City of Boston on a pilot project in East Boston schools
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Participatory Evaluation as a Tool for Policy Activation

In the field, I often hear the question from partner organizations or institutions: “Why is evaluation important?” and “Why do we need to do this?”. As an educator and an
Raheem Baraka at the FoodCares stall

FoodCares Urban Market at the Boston Public Market

The Boston Public Market (BPM) celebrated the grand opening of its newest vendor, FoodCares Urban Market, on November 1st, 2017. Lead by Baraka Community Wellness Founder and prominent local health
Center Square Grill, East Longmeadow. Jason Threlfall photo.

Find restaurants that support local farms

This post was originally published in The Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 29, 2017, by Claire Morenon and appeared in: CISA Opinion Pieces, News  What comes to mind when you think of local
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Buying local is an investment in a better quality of life… for all!

This post originally appeared on the North Amherst Community Farm website. Maria Isabel Vasquez Jimenez was tying grape vines at a farm in Central California, when the temperature soared well
Flats Mentor Farm farmstand

Immigrant Justice, Equity, and Values-Oriented Thinking: Reflections from World Farmers

“One way to take alliance building a step further is to reframe issues so that they’re no longer issues, which can be divisive, but values, which have more power to

Opinion: Farmworkers, Immigration and Local Food

This post was originally published in The Daily Hampshire Gazette, March 1, 2017, by Claire Morenon and Philip Korman and appeared in: CISA Opinion Pieces, Press Room As the national debate about refugees
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Creating Social Change, Together

This post originally appeared on Ferment, the Real Pickles blog. The extraordinary political events taking place in our country are affecting us deeply here at Real Pickles Co-operative, as they are