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Mississippi Gulf Coast Farmer/Shopper Survey Project-2013/2014 – Helping...
This is one of the surveys we are using with the shopper/farmer survey project along the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Sorry-only review copies are available at this point-all of the surveys will be...
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Turkey Creek
In case some of us forget from time to time that what we are fighting for is local sovereignty in order to save, rebuild or create our own healthy systems, and that environmental justice MUST be...
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Growing the Farm – Feeding Mississippi by Beaverdam Fresh Farms — Kickstarter
When I read quotes like this from a farmer, I know that the community food revolution is in full swing and in good hands: We hope that our building of this processing facility, moving forward with...
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Beard Foundation Presents Leadership Awards
From the NYT: “Ben Burkett is still farming a parcel of land in Mississippi that his great-grandfather homesteaded in 1889, about two decades after slavery ended. He grows 16 vegetables, including okra...
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The 2014 Local Food Awareness Report for Gulfport MS
In cooperation with their educational partner Real Food Gulf Coast (RFGC), the year-round open-air markets in Long Beach and in Ocean Springs are actively increasing local food accessibility and...
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Mississippi: the last stop of the spring season
The thing about being a market consultant is it has a very specific schedule each year: the spring is packed with calls and invitations to conferences and workshops. Lots of discussion about grant...
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From 0 to 35 in MS
I have worked with markets and farmers in Mississippi for a dozen years and have found more barriers to getting regional food accepted than in most other areas of the US, yet also have met some of the...
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Home Place Pastures to Become USDA Processing Plant in Mississippi
If you read the From 0 to 35 in Mississippi post here last fall, you know that the good food revolution in my neighboring state has been lacking a few important items to help build their capacity such...
View ArticleQ&A with Monica White: Black farmers’ role in the struggle for civil rights |...
I think Dr. White’s book is one of the most important on community organizing around food in some time. Not only because credit is given to the civil rights activists who founded and push our movement...
View ArticleMonica White receives two awards for her research on Agricultural Resistance...
January 16, 2020 | by BEKAH MCBRIDE Nelson Institute professor of Environmental Justice, Monica White has been awarded both the 2019 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva Outstanding Book Award and the University of...
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