On paper, describe a time you shared a delicious home cooked meal with family and/or friends. What was so good about it? What was served? Who prepared the meal? Do you know where the ingredients came from?
We will have a class discussion to share our food memories.
Students will share prior knowledge of the topic, get an introduction to the expectations of the project as well as an introduction to equity issues with fresh local food, and choose a topic to explore.
Farm to Table: Promoting the consumption of fresh, local seasonal produce and meat.
Institutional Racism: a form of racism that is embedded in the laws and regulations of a society or an organization.
CSA (Community-Supported Agriculture): consists of a community of individuals who pledge support to a farm operation so that the farmland becomes, either legally or spiritually, the community's farm, with the growers and consumers providing mutual support and sharing the risks and benefits of food production.
Locally-Sourced: Products served and consumed within 100 to 150 mile radius of where they're grown.
Sustainability: Meet society’s food needs in the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs.
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
People in the Food Justice Movement
*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.
Edna Lewis
Karen Washington
Bryant Terry
Natasha Bowens Blair
A different related topic? (feel free to propose something to Ms. Taranto and Mr. McGee)
