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Editorâs Note: The second of two articles focusing on food and agriculture in Vermont.
BENNINGTON â Drawing on centuries of Black wisdom and hard-earned experience, two leaders of the SUSU CommUNITY Farm recently presented an online keynote on âcreative strategies for food liberation in Vermont.â
âWe draw from and we learn from the wisdom of our ancestors while also at the same time planting seeds for the future generations,â said Amber Arnold, co-steward and co-executive director. âThat is the work that we center as we move on this journey to food liberation and land liberation in Vermont.â
The Bennington Local Food Summit was a day-long video conference held on May 15, held as part of Bennington Collegeâs three-year grant from the Mellon Foundation to address food insecurity in Bennington County
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Food insecurity is a big unspoken part of the story for producers, says Dazmonique Carr. “You’re providing this great service but you’re providing it so much and you want to change the system so much, you don’t realize that you’re a part of that system.”
Rooted is WDET’s newest offering of stories about land tending, community healing and regeneration happening right here on the ancestral land of the Indigenous Anishinaabe, the area commonly referred to as Detroit.
“Every single thing about gardening, farming, food growing relates to life. Once you realize that that’s what you’re doing … and you’re involving yourself in that, regardless of how big, small, active you are in the food growing scene, when you put your hands in soil not gloved when you actually interact with soil, food, harvest it, it hits different as the young folks say,” says Dazmonique Carr, who founded her business Deeply Rooted
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The Black-led, community-owned grocery store is moving forward with a property on Woodward Avenue.
A food co-op more than 10 years in the making is a little bit closer to fruition. The Detroit Black Community Food Security Network (DBCFSN) has signed a purchase agreement, paid a down payment and is awaiting city approvals on a property located at 8324 Woodward Ave. in Detroit, the future site of the Detroit People’s Food Co-op.
“It’ll be a full-service grocery store that emphasizes what the industry calls natural and organic foods,” says Malik Yakini, the executive director of DBCFSN and a board member of the Detroit People’s Food Co-op.
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Food insecurity rates have skyrocketed during the COVID-19 pandemic, but even before March 2020, many
Americans already faced challenges accessing healthy and affordable
food.
“Food desert” has become a common term to describe low-income communities often communities of color where access to healthy and affordable food is limited or where there are no
grocery stores. Living in Tucson, Arizona, in the Sonoran Desert, taught me that despite its common usage, “food desert” is an inaccurate and
misleading term that pulls focus from the underlying root causes of the
lack of access to healthy food in communities. The language we use to