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  • How College Students Are Helping Each Other Survive

    Ezra Marcus

    November 23, 2020 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    Students across the country are dealing with food and housing insecurity, and financial loss, conditions that have been exacerbated because since the pandemic. In response, students in some colleges and universities created mutual-aid networks, raising and distribution thousands of dollars to their peers. “Students continue to lead the fight to address their basic needs.”

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  • The Collective Farm Helping Oregon's Latinx Farmworkers Weather the Pandemic

    Judy Bankman

    November 19, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: United States, Hood River, Oregon

    The Raíces Cooperative Farm in Hood River, Oregon provides Spanish-speaking community members "a place to grow food," learn from one another about farming practices and develop leadership skills. “Through Raíces, I began to learn better cultivation techniques. [We are shown] how to care for the soil, plants, and seeds, and the program provides economic support" one member explained. During the coronavirus pandemic, the cooperative has also been integral to supplying food for mobile markets.

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  • Seattle's urban farmers are reclaiming public space

    Hannah Weinberger

    November 17, 2020 |

    Crosscut |

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    Response Location: United States, Seattle, Washington

    Seattle’s urban agriculture community saw a boom during the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter protests. BIPOC-led urban farms — like YES Farm and Black Star Farmers — had an increase in volunteers and people wanting to help provide food security, agricultural education, and land access to communities who don’t have their basic needs met. In the first half of 2020, the city of Seattle assigned plots of land to 439 new gardeners to pursue urban farming, with nearly half of them going to underrepresented populations.

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  • Eat greens, buy Black

    Kyesha Jennings

    November 16, 2020 |

    Scalawag |

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    Response Location: United States, Durham, North Carolina

    A newsletter that began in hopes to help stir up business for local restaurants in the Black community grew into a food subscription box that connects farmers, restaurants, and consumers. Tall Grass Food Box has put many black farmers back in business after COVID-19 brought sales to a halt. Restaurants and consumers in North Carolina's Triangle region buy seasonal produce from Black farms located across the state.

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  • MMSD more than triples weekly food distribution from spring with more sites, bus delivery

    Scott Girard

    November 16, 2020 |

    The Cap Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Madison, Wisconsin

    The Madison Metropolitan School District created a food delivery program so students could access meals during the pandemic when teaching became virtual. When they noticed only 15,000 meals were being delivered, a low number, they created changes to their meal distribution program. The district collaborated with Badger buses to deliver the school lunches, then at specific stops school officials would distribute the meals to students. After the changes, 50,000 meals were delivered.

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  • Life on the farm: How one Washington school district is restoring in-person learning

    Joy Resmovits

    November 14, 2020 |

    The Seattle Times |

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    Response Location: United States, Langley, Washington

    Students in South Whidbey Island, off the west coast of Washington State, are getting to know first-hand the process of farm to table meals. During "farm school" kids get a break from e-learning and help tend to the local community garden, where they also get their meals from.

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  • Rural Black Women Turn To Each Other, Mutual Aid And Activism To Survive COVID-19

    Connie Green Freightman

    November 12, 2020 |

    Fierce for Black Women |

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    Response Location: United States, Mississippi

    Across Mississippi and Georgia, mutual aid groups have formed and existing groups have expanded to address increased racial inequities in the health care system during the coronavirus pandemic. Several of the groups are specifically focusing on food insecurity and access to basic needs, while others are raising money for personal protective equipment.

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  • A New Native Seed Cooperative Aims to Rebuild Indigenous Foodways

    Ray Levy Uyeda

    November 10, 2020 |

    Civil Eats |

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    Response Location: Mohawk Nation at Akwesasne, United States, New York

    The Native American Food Sovereignty Alliance organized a seed drive to distribute thousands of seeds to 270 different tribes. The indigenous seed exchange led to the creation of an intertribal cooperative to share traditional knowledge and practices as well. It has conducted a seed census in addition to creating a seed sovereignty assessment toolkit for communities.

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  • School districts, local partners help feed thousands of kids despite school closures

    Jackie Kingston

    November 09, 2020 |

    KXAN-TV |

    Broadcast TV News |

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    Response Location: United States, Amarillo, Texas

    An estimated one-in-three students in the Texas Panhandle is experiencing food insecurity. In Amarillo, Texas, a local food bank, and two school districts are feeding students. “Between Amarillo and Canyon school districts and the Kid’s Cafe, more than 41,000 meals are served every day, and more than one million meals were served through Amarillo ISD’s drive and walk-up food distribution sites in March and April.”

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  • It Took a Group of Black Farmers to Start Fixing Land Ownership Problems in Detroit

    Rhonda J. Smith

    November 06, 2020 |

    Planet Detroit |

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    Response Location: United States, Detroit, Michigan

    Two urban farmers launched a GoFundMe and raised $55,000 to help provide land security to Black farmers in Detroit. Through the Detroit Black Farmer Land Fund, they will select applicants to grow crops for five years and provide technical assistance to growers who want to purchase their own land. The amount raised is not enough to help everyone who needs it, but organizers hope city programs make land more accessible to neighborhood residents.

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