Stand up for family farmers and ranchers, the environment, and access to healthy food for consumers by participating in a GIPSA national call-in day to President Obama on June 22, 2011!!!!!! Major US meatpacking companies routinely underpay family farms for their animals to show favoritism to factory farms. GIPSA (the Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards […]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Food Justice Trivia Night!
Monday, June 27th 7 – 9pm Hopvine Pub 507 15th Ave E $3-5 sliding scale per player, teams of up to 6 Come learn and share what you know about food politics – and see how you stack up against fellow players. How many chickens can you keep in Seattle? What’s a “brassica”? What food […]
Genetic Diversity and Food Security
Food Ark (by Charles Siebert, National Geographic, July, 2011) This is worth a read — “A crisis is looming: To feed our growing population, we’ll need to double food production. Yet crop yields aren’t increasing fast enough, and climate change and new diseases threaten the limited varieties we’ve come to depend on for food. Luckily […]
Teach-Out Report! Cascadian Edible Landscapes
By Courtney Lawson, Food Justice Project Intern April 24th was an Easter Sunday, but that didn’t stop the spirits of the CAGJ enthusiasts who ventured to Cascadian Edible Landscape’s property in South Seattle. Michael Seliga, founder of Cascadian Edible Landscapes (CEL), and his wife Stephanie (the program manager of the Just Garden Project) were the […]
