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Re-posted with corrections: This article was originally posted in December 2011. Changes were made to reflect that the AFSC in New Mexico provides training to beginning farmers --- not the Agri-Cultura Network as previously reported. Fidel introduced himself as a musician and traveling Aztec dancer to our crowd of 30+ participants at the USDA-sponsored Community Food Projects (CFP) grantees meeting
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Written by Christine Bell, WhyHunger Intern This post is part of WhyHunger’s peer mentor profile series for the “Community Learning Project for Food Justice” (CLP). Each week through April 2012, we’ll highlight a new CLP peer mentor and their contribution to creating a national learning/teaching community to support the growth and expansion of the food justice movement. Nuestras Raices, which
10-01-2012
The Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) and Growing Green Program are changing the food system and the lives of youth in Buffalo and Western New York. Growing Green, our youth development and urban agriculture program, employs about 50 teens each year to create solutions to food injustice and the lack of access to healthy food in our communities. Youth in the
10-01-2012
Re-posted with corrections: This article was originally posted in December 2011. Changes were made to reflect that the AFSC in New Mexico provides training to beginning farmers --- not the Agri-Cultura Network as previously reported. Fidel introduced himself as a musician and traveling Aztec dancer to our crowd of 30+ participants at the USDA-sponsored Community Food Projects (CFP) grantees meeting
17-01-2012
17-01-2012
Written by Christine Bell, WhyHunger Intern This post is part of WhyHunger’s peer mentor profile series for the “Community Learning Project for Food Justice” (CLP). Each week through April 2012, we’ll highlight a new CLP peer mentor and their contribution to creating a national learning/teaching community to support the growth and expansion of the food justice movement. Nuestras Raices, which
10-01-2012
The Massachusetts Avenue Project (MAP) and Growing Green Program are changing the food system and the lives of youth in Buffalo and Western New York. Growing Green, our youth development and urban agriculture program, employs about 50 teens each year to create solutions to food injustice and the lack of access to healthy food in our communities. Youth in the
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