Please check back for more updates and information on our presenters! Onika Abraham Onika Abraham is the director of Farm School NYC, which offers adults comprehensive, professional training in sustainable agriculture that is grounded in social and food justice. A farmer and educator with more than 15 years of experience in nonprofit management, Onika completed […]
September 26, 2017 7:00pm to 8:00pm NOFA MASS will be hosting another installment of the Webinar Series – Inspiring Ideas from Experts in the Field Presenter: Lee Reich, PhD, “Life on the Farmden” Blog Juneberry, cornelian cherry, and lingonberry are just a few fruits that are not well-known but have delectable flavors and are easy […]
September 26, 2017 7:00pm to 8:00pm NOFA MASS will be hosting another installment of the Webinar Series – Inspiring Ideas from Experts in the Field Presenter: Lee Reich, PhD, “Life on the Farmden” Blog Juneberry, cornelian cherry, and lingonberry are just a few fruits that are not well-known but have delectable flavors and are easy […]
Tell us a little about yourself. Who are you, what work do you do in the food system, and how did you end up doing it? My name is Gerldine Wilson. I am legally blind, a retired preschool teacher, and mother of 3 grown children and a grandmother of 6. I am a community activist […]
Tell us a little about yourself. Who are you, what work do you do in the food system, and how did you end up doing it? My name is Gerldine Wilson. I am legally blind, a retired preschool teacher, and mother of 3 grown children and a grandmother of 6. I am a community activist […]
“Food workers are the hands that feed us, yet they are this group of invisible people.” What does a truly sustainable food system look like? Amid growing awareness of the connection between farming, health, and the environment, many people feel sustainability is about how our food is grown and distributed. For the Food Chain […]
How do we scale up good food? This question is at the core of sustainable food system development. Despite increased media attention and consumer awareness about how our food is produced, good food, that is healthy, green, and fair, is still unaffordable or unavailable for many people in the U.S. Though many factors are to […]
Last fall, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives was awarded the Food Sovereignty prize, an alternative to Norman Borlaug’s World Food Prize that recognizes grassroots activists working for a more democratic food system. Upon accepting the prize, Federation Executive Director Cornelius Blanding said, “We believe all land matters, but we especially want to say black land […]
Last fall, the Federation of Southern Cooperatives was awarded the Food Sovereignty prize, an alternative to Norman Borlaug’s World Food Prize that recognizes grassroots activists working for a more democratic food system. Upon accepting the prize, Federation Executive Director Cornelius Blanding said, “We believe all land matters, but we especially want to say black land […]
Introduction As far as strategies to achieve sustainable farm and food systems go, it doesn’t get much better than farm to school. This multi-pronged approach seeks to improve kids’ diets and farmers’ economic viability by bringing local agriculture products into school cafeterias and garden-based nutrition education into school curriculums. And according to the recent USDA […]
What is the right scale of processing needed to support small-scale and sustainable meat for the locavore market? As consumer demand for this kind of meat, called niche meat, grows, the seemingly obvious conclusion is the need for more processing facilities has also grown. But for many reasons, this question is more complicated than it […]
Tell us about Greenwave. What do you do? 3D Ocean Farming is a polyculture vertical farming system grows a mix of seaweeds and shellfish that require zero inputs – making it the most sustainable form of food production on the planet – while sequestering carbon and rebuilding reef ecosystems. Since our farms sit below the […]
Tell us about Greenwave. What do you do? 3D Ocean Farming is a polyculture vertical farming system grows a mix of seaweeds and shellfish that require zero inputs – making it the most sustainable form of food production on the planet – while sequestering carbon and rebuilding reef ecosystems. Since our farms sit below the […]
For Melissa Law, one of four farmers at Bumbleroot Farm in Windham, Maine, climate change is deeply personal, as she has been forced to adapt to more erratic weather patterns and more severe storms in the six years she and her partners have owned their farm. Bumbleroot has endured drought and hail storms, high winds […]
