Choosing the Journey: Getting Comfortable with Being Uncomfortable

We are honored to offer this guest post for this year’s 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge by John Fisk, Director of Strategy and Partnerships at the Wallace Center. What does it

The Architecture of Local Authority

Guest essay by Ken Payne exploring the connection between the structures of our world, especially for the 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge Okay, this is tentative.  Writing what follows takes me

Connect the Dots to See Racism in the Food System, Then Work to Change It

Guest blog by Renee Brooks Catacalos, author of The Chesapeake Table, Your Guide to Eating Local   When I took over Edible Chesapeake magazine in 2006, I made a conscious decision to include

Uprooting Racism: Seeding Sovereignty

Our food system is built on stolen land and exploited labor. Here’s what we can do to fix it. Guest blog by Leah Penniman of Soul Fire Farm in Grafton,

Building Sustainable Sources of Fresh Produce

This article was originally published on TuftsNow. By Laura Ferguson January 15, 2019   Tufts, Harvard, and Boston College are coming together to support sustainable regional agriculture by investing in

Heavy hand of high tech in the food we eat

The following letter to the editor from Food Solutions New England was published in the Boston Globe in response to their recent editorial on the future of food. Thanks to

The 21-Day Racial Equity Challenge – The Spread of a Good Thing

Editor’s Note: Now, in October, we are at the midpoint between the 2018 and 2019 Racial Equity Challenges.  Food Solutions New England has been organizing this challenge for four years

In Memory of Raheem Baraka

The friends and family of Raheem Baraka are saying their final good byes today in Boston.  The Food Solutions New England network would like to extend our deepest condolences and

Announcing FSNE’s New Network Leadership Institute Cohort

As part of our mission to strengthen our regional food system network, Food Solutions New England (FSNE) launches the third year of its Network Leadership Institute this week with an

Food Sovereignty as a step toward community resilience

We welcome this guest submission from Jesse Watson of Midcoast Permaculture.  Jesse offers his perspective and some resources on various expressions of food sovereignty that have been emerging the the