On Monday, March 5, the Coalition of Immokale Workers launched a 6-day fast in front of the Publix headquarters in Lakeland, FL. 50 farmworkers and hundreds of their allies from across the country are fasting (drinking only water) in protest of Publix's refusal to sign a Fair Food Agreement. Under the agreement, Publix would pay an extra penny per pound
08-03-2012
WhyHunger participated in yesterday’s “tweet out” (#KYF2) hosted by USDA’s Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative and Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan during a White House live stream event to release the results of a 3-year project called “Compass.” The Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass is a comprehensive report with an accompanying interactive map cataloging USDA’s work
06-03-2012
06-03-2012
Six months ago while working with the network Somos la Semilla in southern Arizona, I had the opportunity to visit an urban farm in the south central part of Tucson which I reported on in the CONNECT Blog. While back again last week we dropped in on the same urban farm which is a part of the Community Food Resource
29-02-2012
In the small coastal town of Sitka, Alaska, nestled on the west coast of Baranof Island in the heart of the Tongass - the nation’s largest National Forest, students eat local food for lunch. The Sitka Conservation Society incorporates all the key elements that make an excellent farm to school program: health, sustainability and community, and then apply those themes
27-02-2012
On Monday, March 5, the Coalition of Immokale Workers launched a 6-day fast in front of the Publix headquarters in Lakeland, FL. 50 farmworkers and hundreds of their allies from across the country are fasting (drinking only water) in protest of Publix's refusal to sign a Fair Food Agreement. Under the agreement, Publix would pay an extra penny per pound
08-03-2012
WhyHunger participated in yesterday’s “tweet out” (#KYF2) hosted by USDA’s Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food initiative and Deputy Agriculture Secretary Kathleen Merrigan during a White House live stream event to release the results of a 3-year project called “Compass.” The Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food Compass is a comprehensive report with an accompanying interactive map cataloging USDA’s work
06-03-2012
06-03-2012
Six months ago while working with the network Somos la Semilla in southern Arizona, I had the opportunity to visit an urban farm in the south central part of Tucson which I reported on in the CONNECT Blog. While back again last week we dropped in on the same urban farm which is a part of the Community Food Resource
29-02-2012
In the small coastal town of Sitka, Alaska, nestled on the west coast of Baranof Island in the heart of the Tongass - the nation’s largest National Forest, students eat local food for lunch. The Sitka Conservation Society incorporates all the key elements that make an excellent farm to school program: health, sustainability and community, and then apply those themes
27-02-2012