St. Louis Food Policy Coalition

Check out a great job opportunity in the Office of Sustainability at Wash U! https://sustainability.wustl.edu/position-opens-at-the-of/

"With just one cabinet appointment, President-elect Joe Biden could tackle economic inequality, the rural/urban divide, climate change, the growing mistrust of science, systemic racism and even the coronavirus. That appointment is Secretary of Agriculture. . . . The secretary of agriculture should lead the fight against corporations that have created a toxic food environment and support groups building healthful alternatives. The secretary should champion unity among farmers,... rural people and urban advocates for racial and economic justice against the common enemy of consolidation and concentration of wealth. And the secretary should use the department’s vaunted research and extension capacity to support a food system that can rebuild rural economies, regenerate ecological capital, mitigate climate change and provide nourishing food for all." See more

Family Farm Action Alliance, University of Missouri, Michigan State University, and Sam Houston State University released a new report on the impacts of Concentration of Our Food System. "Working together, policy-makers, farmers, workers and communities need to fashion alternatives and policies that can help to curb monopolistic tendencies in the agrifood system, to shine a racial lens in scholarship on agrifood system power and consolidation, to prioritize resilience and red...undancy, to rethink core assumptions such as efficiency and property rights, and to encourage the development of alternative production and consumption arrangements." https://farmactionalliance.org/concentrationreport/

@Food Tank shares local news about the Garden Tool Bank!

Our nation's farmworkers deserve more for their health and safety.

Food Justice is Racial Justice.

"If Roundup is banned, not only will farmers like me be safer, but it will open the door for the return of the conventional seed market," said John Wesley Boyd Jr., the association's founder and president. The group says it represents 109,000 Black farmers in 42 states."

Check out this story from Slow Food St. Louis, highlighting a local grower in the Tower Grove South neighborhood of the City of St. Louis. We can each certainly feed ourselves with the food we grow here in the #stlfoodshed, and you don’t need even an acre to grow for yourself, as Rachel illustrates!