WhyHunger staff members Brooke Smith and Alison Cohen were in southern Arizona in February to work with the regional network called Somos la Semilla, formed as a response to the need to work across sectors, counties and communities in order to build capacity to see the food desert that this rural part of the state has become, bloom again with
20-03-2012
The National Hunger Hotline (NHH), a service of WhyHunger’s National Hunger Clearinghouse, provides real-time referrals for people in need across the U.S. to emergency food and assistance programs. Receiving an average of 700 calls per month, the NHH is a portal to information, assistance, and resources, ultimately empowering families and individuals to meet their vital needs including fresh, healthy food.
19-03-2012
Shown in the photo above are some of the 40 individual family plots cultivated in Las Milpitas Farm in Tucson Arizona. On its inauguration celebration in January, which included press and remarks from the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona’s CEO Bill Carnegie, one of the gardeners spoke to the assembled crowd and proudly reported that because of the vegetables
16-03-2012
Northeast Edition “Everyone is an investor in food,” said Derek Denckla during a workshop I attended this past February at the Just Food Conference in New York City. Throughout the course of the workshop, I along with about 50 fellow participants were introduced to a trickling but steady stream of new investment channels cropping up all over New York City,
12-03-2012
On a recent visit to the Tahono O'odham Nation in southeast Arizona, WhyHunger's Brooke Smith met up with Tohono O'odham Community Action's Project Oidag Coordinator, Amy Juan for a quick interview. "Farming's really not that hard. It's a family effort. It's a community effort. Once you have that community support it's easy and it's fun and it provides so many
09-03-2012
WhyHunger staff members Brooke Smith and Alison Cohen were in southern Arizona in February to work with the regional network called Somos la Semilla, formed as a response to the need to work across sectors, counties and communities in order to build capacity to see the food desert that this rural part of the state has become, bloom again with
20-03-2012
The National Hunger Hotline (NHH), a service of WhyHunger’s National Hunger Clearinghouse, provides real-time referrals for people in need across the U.S. to emergency food and assistance programs. Receiving an average of 700 calls per month, the NHH is a portal to information, assistance, and resources, ultimately empowering families and individuals to meet their vital needs including fresh, healthy food.
19-03-2012
Shown in the photo above are some of the 40 individual family plots cultivated in Las Milpitas Farm in Tucson Arizona. On its inauguration celebration in January, which included press and remarks from the Community Food Bank of Southern Arizona’s CEO Bill Carnegie, one of the gardeners spoke to the assembled crowd and proudly reported that because of the vegetables
16-03-2012
Northeast Edition “Everyone is an investor in food,” said Derek Denckla during a workshop I attended this past February at the Just Food Conference in New York City. Throughout the course of the workshop, I along with about 50 fellow participants were introduced to a trickling but steady stream of new investment channels cropping up all over New York City,
12-03-2012
On a recent visit to the Tahono O'odham Nation in southeast Arizona, WhyHunger's Brooke Smith met up with Tohono O'odham Community Action's Project Oidag Coordinator, Amy Juan for a quick interview. "Farming's really not that hard. It's a family effort. It's a community effort. Once you have that community support it's easy and it's fun and it provides so many
09-03-2012