9/20 : Mobile Circulation at the Food Justice Fair
Catch up with us at the Food Justice Summit coming up this weekend. We’ll be tabling with our Mobile Circulation Desk – actually signing out library materials right there, on the spot. We’ll bring our best collection of Food Justice related materials.
The Greenstar Community Projects 5th Annual Food Justice Fair
Sunday, September 20th, 2015
this year at Streets Alive (along Plain St & Cleveland Ave)!
Keynote speaker Natasha Bowens at 2 pm. Author and creator of the multi-media project, The Color of Food which depicts how race, gender and access to resources can transform our agricultural system and re-shape the food movement.
Contact GSCP for more info about re-shaping the local food system (and to share your voice) and visit www.hotpotatopress.org
What food or social justice (or food justice) books would you want to be available at the library?
Tell us : Click here to suggest a book for our collection
Don’t have a library card with us? No problem. We’ll get you all set up, right there at the Mobile Circulation Desk.
WHAT IS FOOD JUSTICE?
Food Justice is an elimination of disparities in healthy food access and nutrition education, a transformation of our food system leading to comprehensive local healthy food distribution, and support for allied movements for social justice and environmental stewardship.
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Color of Food
Buy the Book online, or borrow it from our collection
Imagine the typical American farmer. Many people visualize sun-roughened skin, faded overalls, and calloused hands—hands that are usually white. While there’s no doubt the growing trend of organic farming and homesteading is changing how the farmer is portrayed in mainstream media, farmers of color are still largely left out of the picture.
The Color of Food seeks to rectify this. By recognizing the critical issues that lie at the intersection of race and food, this stunning collection of portraits and stories challenges the status quo of agrarian identity. Author, photographer, and biracial farmer Natasha Bowens’s quest to explore her own roots in the soil leads her to unearth a larger story, weaving together the seemingly forgotten history of agriculture for people of color, the issues they face today, and the culture and resilience they bring to food and farming.
The Color of Food teaches us that the food and farm movement is about more than buying local and protecting our soil. It is about preserving culture and community, digging deeply into the places we’ve overlooked, and honoring those who have come before us. Blending storytelling, photography, oral history, and unique insight, these pages remind us that true food sovereignty means a place at the table for everyone.
Natasha Bowens is an author, farmer, and creator of the multimedia project The Color of Food. Her advocacy focuses on food sovereignty and social issues.
