Had the wonderful opportunity to man a table for Advocates for Urban Agriculture http://auachicago.org/ at the Garfield Park Conservatory http://www.garfield-conservatory.org/ for two hours today. Conversations ranged from what is AUA, to how do I start a garden, to my church group wants to grow food, to what happens if…? Everybody had a map, and at [...]
It’s hard to believe there has not been a post since Worms, but it’s true. They are, by the way, doing fine, thank you. This Labor Day weekend I took to some Slow Food processes. More likely, I wondered what the wheat would be like that came from the Michigan Farm Amelia Acres, upon which [...]
Spent a Saturday afternoon separating newspapers, one pile for “black and white” and another for “colored inks used. “ I’d read that the colored inks in the newsprint were toxic to worms, the red wrigglers down in the basement storage area. Yes, I’ve started vermi-composting in my new apartment to take care of my kitchen [...]
Neighborhood Nutrition Centers has joined as a Stakeholder with Building a Healthier Chicago. Building a Healthier Chicago (BHC) is a collaborative of local and national stakeholders working to strengthen efforts to promote the health of Chicago residents and employees. Through collaboration BHC promotes and tracks the adoption of selected programs, practices, policies, and supportive environments [...]
NNCenters participated in the Young Leaders Society of Metro Chicago‘s Health & Wellness – Focus on Food Deserts workshop at the K.L.E.O Center in the Washington Park community. Speakers included: Pastor Torrey L. Barrett, I Founder and Executive Director K.L.E.O. Community Family Life Center Willie B. Cochran 20th Ward Alderman Dr. Hsin-Yi Chang Bariatric Surgeon [...]
We are pleased to announce that Neighborhood Nutrition Centers has been selected to advance to second round applications for Echoing Green’s fellowship program. This is a great achievement – in an incredibly competitive field. Out of 1,100 applicants in the first round, only 350 were chosen to make a second round of bidding. The fellowship [...]
Back in October, we wrote of a lecture given by Frances Moore Lappe. She invited us to purchase an advance copy of her new book LIBERATION ECOLOGY (only 1,000 being published). Our task, for receiving the early copy, is to read and review the book. Such reviews will be read, and parts may be incorporated [...]
The first thing to do after returning from Iowa’s Community Food Security Coalition conference was to read Mark Winne’s book “Closing the Food Gap, Resetting the Table in the Land of Plenty” (click here for a link to Amazon). Mr. Winne’s book was a good read and has much to say in the end regarding [...]
Unexpected to the original conference schedule, Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack made an appearance at the breakfast meeting and spoke eloquently about the work of the USDA under the new administration. Central to the new work is the Know Your Farmer – Know Your Food program (click here for the USDA website). Key to the [...]
During the Monday evening keynote address Dr. Herren presented a compelling argument to move away from genetically modified seeds for improving our world food supply – to embracing small organic, sustainable farms, moving away from the pesticidal destruction of our soil and improve the health of our growing ability. The report by the International Assessment [...]