The Laura Flanders Show
Food Justice
(Recorded before Covid-19). Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also the idea behind a rising movement in the US, looking at how federal state and local policies have, or have not served everyone’s food needs. In this episode, Laura talks with farmers, workers, organizers, and seed keepers who seldom get much attention from the mass media. And then she goes to Soul Fire Farm near Albany, New York, and visits with Leah Penniman, author of a groundbreaking book “Farming While Black”, what Penniman calls a “love song for the earth and her peoples”.
In This Episode
Leah Penniman, Co-Director and Farm Manager, Soul Fire Farm, author, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
Malaika Gilpin – Co-Director, One Art Community Center
Sonia Galiber and Kirtrina Baxter – Soil Generation
Charlyn Griffith, artist & founder, Wholistic Art and Soil Generation
Vanessa García Polanco, Community Sustainability at Michigan State University.
Chris Bolden Newsome, Farm Manager, Bartram’s Community Farm & Food Resource Center
Owen Taylor, TrueLove Seeds
Tracy Lerman, Executive Director, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group
Jenna Hansroth, President, Morgan County Association of Food and FarmsWV
Cristina Martinez, worker, owner and chef of South Philly Barbacoa
Niaz Dorry, executive director of the National Family Farm Coalition
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