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Farm to Table: Project

Research Guide of Ms. Taranto's Farm to Table Project.

Project Overview

Project Purpose & Expectations:

This project starts with the research-backed assumption that when we cook with fresh local food it ensures individuals, families, and our world are healthier.  However, ACCESS to fresh local food is not equitable across all racial, gender, and class differences. The goal of this project is to research a topic related to food equity and justice, then create a proposal to suggest real-life solutions to address the inequitable distribution of fresh local food

PROJECT CHECKLIST   PROJECT RUBRIC 

List of Possible Topics

List of Possible Topics (With Definitions)

 

  • Food Deserts/Apartheid: A system of segregation that divides those with access to an abundance of nutritious food and ones who have been denied that access due to systemic injustice.

https://www.aecf.org/blog/exploring-americas-food-deserts

  • Urban Agriculture/Farming: Includes production (beyond that which is strictly for home consumption or educational purposes), distribution and marketing of food and other products within the cores of metropolitan areas and at their edges.

https://ucanr.edu/sites/UrbanAg/

  • Farmworkers/Migrant Workers: persons whose primary income is from seasonal agricultural work.

https://www.panna.org/frontline-communities/farmworkers

  • Black Panthers' Free Breakfast Program: The Panthers’ Free Breakfast Program focused national attention on the urgent need to give poor children nutritious meals so they could be successful in school

https://www.blackpast.org/african-american-history/black-panther-partys-free-breakfast-program-1969-1980/

  • People in the Food Justice Movement
  1. Edna Lewis
  2. Karen Washington
  3. Bryant Terry
  4. Natasha Bowens Blair

*Note: if you are researching a person, make sure you are showing how they tie into the food justice movement and use farm to table principles.

  • A different related topic? (feel free to propose something to Ms. Taranto and Mrs. Green)

 

Submit Topic Choice Here

 

 

 

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Resources 

Websites

Websites & Selected Articles

Databases & Online Encyclopedias

Local Options for Food

Local Options for Food

 

Databases & Online Encyclopedias

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Create a multimedia presentation (words, pictures, graphs, videos etc.) incorporating the information you select  with visual elements that compliment and enhance this information. You will be proposing the solutions to a group. 

Proposal should include the information from your outline:

  • Definition of Farm to Table
  • Definition of Your Topic
  • Explanation about why this Topic is important for food equity and justice
  • Based on the lens (topic) you chose to explore food justice issues, and utilizing farm to table principles, what are some ways we could build equity and justice into our system? What are some solutions connected to your topic? (THESE ARE YOUR SOLUTIONS! Include AT LEAST 3)

 

Inspiration

 

Take a look at how Soul Fire Farm is addressing food injustice with their action steps and policy plan! 

Soul Fire Farm