Research and Reading List: Food Justice
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Season 1, Episode 113: Food Justice: A new way of Thinking about the Most Basic Stuff of Life
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Description: Food justice is the notion that everyone should have access to healthful food as well as the opportunity to grow, market and serve it. It’s also the idea behind a rising movement in the US, looking at how federal state and local policies have, or have not served everyone’s food needs. In this episode, Laura talks with farmers, workers, organizers, and seed keepers who seldom get much attention from the mass media. And then she goes to Soul Fire Farm near Albany, New York, and visits with Leah Penniman, author of a groundbreaking book “Farming While Black”, what Penniman calls a “love song for the earth and her peoples”.
In this episode:
- Leah Penniman, Co-Director and Farm Manager, Soul Fire Farm, author, Farming While Black: Soul Fire Farm’s Practical Guide to Liberation on the Land
- Malaika Gilpin - Co-Director, One Art Community Center
- Sonia and Katrina - Soil Generation
- Charlyn Griffith, artist & founder, Wholistic Art and Soil Generation
- Vanessa García Polanco, Community Sustainability at Michigan State University.
- Chris Bolden Newsome, Farm Manager, Bartram’s Community Farm & Food Resource Center
- Owen Taylor, TrueLove Seeds
- Tracy Lerman, Executive Director, Northeast Sustainable Agriculture Working Group, NESAWG
- Jenna Hansroth, President, Morgan County Association of Food and Farms WV
- Cristina Martinez, worker, owner and chef of South Philly Barbacoa
- Niaz Dorry, executive director of the National Family Farm Coalition
Related Laura Flanders Show Episodes:
• America Decline: A Case for Optimism, Chris Hedges and Leah Penniman
• Progressive Strategy Summit & Fire Drill Fridays
• From Farm to Coop to Table, Food Justice in Urban Agriculture
Related Articles and Resources:
• “Black Farmers Have Been Robbed of Land. A New Bill Would Give Them a “Quantum Leap” Toward Justice” by Tom Philpott, Mother Jones
• “It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit” by Rhonda J. Smith of Planet Detroit, Civil Eats
• “We don't farm because it's trendy; we farm as resistance, for healing and sovereignty” by Sahley Gripper, Environmental Health News
• “How to Grow Change Through Black-Led Agriculture, According to Leah Penniman” by Leah Penniman, Food & Wine
