Welcome!
The Food Security Roundtable is a network of farmers, community organizers and community members. We are working to strengthen connections between folks living and working in urban and rural areas, and build grassroots relationships throughout the northeast to establish a more stable, democratic, and just food system.
- 2009-2010 Winter Roundtable
- NYC + Urban/Rural Exchange
- NE Delegation to Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative
- Hudson Valley News
- Southern Vermont News
- Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative
The 2nd Annual
Winter Roundtable
Franklin Patterson Hall, Hampshire College
893 West St. Amherst MA 01002
February 27th & 28th
Farmers, organizers, and community members from around the Northeast will be meeting to get to know each other, share our collective resources, and work on our fixing our food system.
Join us!
This is an opportunity to meet other people from around the Northeast who work in the world of building a better food system – farming, dismantling racism in the food system, distribution, coops – putting the food system back in the hands of the community.
This is a chance for farmers, between growing seasons, to meet each other and people in their local and regional communities to build on common ideas. But it isn’t just for farmers. We want everyone to have a chance to meet each other. We want everyone to leave with a sense of who each other are, what everyone needs, what everyone has to offer, and what people want to do. tThis is an opportunity for anyone involved in growing, distributing or eating food to plug into making our food system more stable and just.
We need a better food system.
What is this meeting about? That is up to all of us attending. We are working on building a regional network to support and further develop the Good Food, Food Sovereignty, & Food Justice Movements. Whatever you want to call it, what should our network do? We’ve got some ideas, you’ve got some ideas. Let’s work together.
Partners
- Local Food Initiative – Mothers On the Move -
-The Food Security Roundtable -
contact@foodpower.org or call 646-425-1311
If you would like to come please RSVP to the complete
Event Announcement Here
~ The Winter Roundtable Crew
NYC News – The Urban/Rural Exchange
The Urban/Rural Exchange is a first step in creating dialogue, common goals, and resource sharing between urban and rural food justice organizers and grassroots community groups about the politics and strategy for local food control based on mutual support and respect. Click HERE for more information.
NE Delegation to Growing Food and Justice for All Initiative
The Growing Food and Justice Initiative is striving to create a network of activists who are working toward a just food system and world. This year GFJI will be promoting their national coordinated organizing strategy and inviting people to join this new community.
The Food Security Roundtable, in partnership with Just Food, is organizing a delegation to Milwaukee, so that we can become a part of this momentum and help work for change in our food system at home. For more information on the conference, please visitwww.growingfoodandjustice.org.
WHAT WE NEED
Donations!
$10,000 dollars will send at least 20 people to the GFJI conference, where the best and brightest farmers, grassroots food security organizers, and food justice activists from across the country will be gathering. $10,000 is only $100 from 100 people who want to help farmers from our region get the skills and inspiration to re-empower their communities and help take back control of the food system that those communities depend on.
To make a tax deductible donation, please send a check payable to Just Food, and write “Roundtable” in the memo line to Just Food, 1155 Avenue of the Americas, 3rd Floor, New York, NY 10036, or visit their website -www.justfood.org - and make an online donation specifying the Roundtable as the program to which you are donating. Then send an email to info@foodpower.org and let us know how much you donated and that it’s earmarked for the delegation. Thank you!
Frequent Flyer Miles!
Not all frequent flyer programs are the same, but many will allow you to transfer your miles to another traveler. Please contact your frequent flyer program and see if you can get a farmer or community member on the plane and let us know by emailing us at info@foodpower.org. Thank you!
Please help
Hudson Valley News
We convened our first local Food Security Roundtable in Hudson, NY on May 26th. About fifty farmers and community members from Duchess, Columbia, and Ulster Counties came and talked and ate local polenta pie. These were awesome, hardworking people from projects and farms who had taken off a May afternoon and evening (a big deal for a farmer in growing season) to come and meet each other and hear about other Hudson Valley farm and agriculture projects.
Those of us that organized the event have invited the Hudson Valley community to participate in organizing the next Hudson Valley-wide forum with us, helping frame the conversation of moving toward democratic community control and local production of the Hudson Valley food supply. This logistics organzing meeting will be held at Germantown Community Farm on Sunday July 12th at 7pm.
The Hudson Valley forum/roundtable is tentatively set for some time in late August, details TBA. contact:foodaction@gmail.com
Southern Vermont News
A draft mission-vision document has been written in the Brattleboro, VT area for the southern Vermont local part/chapter of this network. This document may serve as a basis for mission and vision development for the rest of the network, if ya’ll like it. If there is interest we might set up a mission-vision working group or try to hone it down all together at the next regional forum on August 29th. We are working out an article about the Urban/Rural Exchange in a local paper and getting pledges of food donations from farmers for the food shipment in late september. Some farmers are planting fields together as a result of meeting up at the Roundtable, as well as starting to work together to bring produce for sale to low-income neighborhoods in NYC.
THANKS FOR CHECKING IN
We are eager to hear your voice and and get the chance to work with you, and we need help organizing all the projects listed above, so don’t hesitate to jump in.
email phone: 917 922 5430
