Category: Events
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Upcoming Food-Related Events
Following on the review of the First Food Tank Summit in Seattle, some upcoming food-related events, a few with social justice bents. Race, Economies, Workers & Borders April 3, 6-8pm at Bellingham Unitarian Fellowship – Sanctuary, a Community to Community Development & Northwest Washington Central Labor Council event. Slow Food Regional Conference April 14 & 15…
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A Review: Food Tank’s First Summit
in the PNW2018 Food Tank’s First Summit in the Pacific Northwest: Growing Food Policy Have you ever attended a conference and walked away super inspired, then wondered a week later if anything stuck? I wasn’t sure what to expect of Food Tank’s first summit held in the Pacific Northwest. In the end, it was a net positive. Having…
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Friendly Friday:
2017 Living Breath Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge SymposiumLast Friday was The Living Breath of wǝɫǝbʔaltxʷ: Indigenous Foods and Ecological Knowledge Symposium. Folks from afar had made it to the University of Washington campus, including youth leadership from tribes as far away as NE Alaska.* If you’re interested in advancing your knowledge in food movements, or advancing equity, there’s exciting work afoot from…
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MOHAI’s Edible City Exhibit – An Inclusive Exploration of Seattle’s Food Landscape
One overcast Friday, I ventured to the Museum of History and Industry (MOHAI) to check out their Edible City exhibit with my friend Sarah and her two kiddos. We wandered in from the parking lot feeling lucky to have found a spot (not free, max 4 hrs) to park and paid the $20 per adult.…
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Cranksgiving Seattle 2013
In the last few years, through a dramatic health-related life event, I have (a)become a little more acutely grateful of being alive at all, and (b)felt a more urgent need to put in the time investments now to ensure a longer and healthier life. So in that vein, after the unhappy consequences of Reduced Sugar…