March 28, 2008
The Sustainable Food Laboratory Business Coalition recently announced the publication of the food guide entitled “The Changing Vocabulary of Food Purchasing: A Guide for Foodservice Professionals”. The guide is an overview of approximately thirty big picture terms and concepts used in food purchasing today and will be a great sales and training tool for food related work for all kinds of companies.
Click here for a downloadable version of the Food Guide on the SFL web site.
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Changemakers Day at Slow Food Nation |
March 20, 2008
Anya Fernald, Slow Food Nation
The agenda for the first-ever Slow Food Nation event is being built this spring with help from farmers, fishers, non-profit leaders, social venture businesses and more. All aspects of Slow Food Nation will represent the mission of the Slow Food movement: building a food system that is good, clean, and fair. Good means the food is fresh, nutritious, delicious and culturally appropriate. Clean means that the resources from which it is produced and the bodies into which is goes will not be polluted because of the way it was produced. Fair means that low-income people, farm workers, and farm owners large and small are all equitably sharing in the bounty that the food provides. These are all values and principles that I know my colleagues from the 2007 ROC Planning Fellows program share and promote in their important work. I hope they- and you- will participate in Slow Food Nation in two ways.
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March 19, 2008
The weekend before last, March 15th in fact, spring sprung in my garden in Santa Rosa. It was near 70 degrees and the sun was bright. The volunteer grasses were out of control and I was harvesting them, roots intact, for my compost pile, which at last look was up to 120 degrees. The daffodils were about finished, the peach tree was about to pop, and the first iris blooms were 2 weeks away. I knew spring had begun because, front and back, my yard was full of tiny white, fragrant and spade shaped blooms that had me sniffing around on my knees. They are the violets, viola odorata, that mark the start of spring for me. Despite the fact that humans have cultivated them for over 2 thousand years, my annual bloom lasts maybe ten days; so I must savor their existence. And what an existence it is.
Roots of Change, like the garden, is beginning to see a beautiful bloom. Holly King, Charlene Orszag, Anya Fernald (all 2007 ROC Planning Fellows) and Joseph McIntyre from ROC’s Coordinating Team will share some exciting work underway within the ROC Network. Here is my brief rundown on other developments since mid-February when the Stewardship Council met to review ROC’s 2008 plans and budget. The Coordinating Team’s proposals, with Council refinements, were adopted and we are off and running to towards important milestones.
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News from the Ag Futures and Food System Alliances |
March 18, 2008
The Ag Futures and Food System Alliance are regional “roundtables” made up of food producers, consumers, local leaders, health care advocates, and environmentalists to build bridges between often polarized parts of our community, with the shared purpose of creating a food system that reflects our best hopes and desires for the future. Today there are five roundtables working across California. Each receives support from Roots of Change and from local community members and groups. Here is a quick rundown on each:
The Ventura County Ag Futures Alliance (AFA) has been in operation since 2000 and has spawned California’s largest grassroots effort to build farm worker housing, brought hundreds of citizens together to advance stewardship efforts in their county, and published six citizen white papers on topics ranging from pesticide use to providing health care for farm workers. Each of the white papers has been backed by concrete local actions.
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