#food-access — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #food-access, aggregated by home.social.
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Food Pantry launches community garden with local volunteers https://www.allforgardening.com/1762196/food-pantry-launches-community-garden-with-local-volunteers/ #city #collaboration #CommunityBusiness #CommunityGarden #education #event #family #FoodAccess #FoodPantry #garden #gardener #gardening #installation #LocalVolunteer #nutrition #Partner #planting #urbandale
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Grow a Row: Helping Feed Our Community, One Garden at a Time https://www.allforgardening.com/1717070/grow-a-row-helping-feed-our-community-one-garden-at-a-time/ #FoodAccess #garden #LocalFood
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#Online - Produce #SharingTables: An Approach to #GardenGrown #FoodAccess
April 7 @ 6:00 pm - 7:15 pm
Free – $15"This event is hosted by the University of Maine Cooperative Extension.
This webinar will explore #WaldoCounty Bounty’s Give and Take program, a stigma-free model for sharing surplus #GardenProduce through community drop-off sites. Participants will learn how the program operates, how new sites are selected, and how to start a #GiveAndTake site in their own community. Developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to address farm losses and food insecurity in rural Waldo County, #Maine, where nearly 6,000 residents face #FoodInsecurity, the program connects local #gardeners, #farmers, and #neighbors to expand access to healthy, local food.
Speakers: Viña Lindley, UMaine Extension Horticulture Professional and Mattie John Bamman, Waldo County Bounty Communications Coordinator"
FMI and to register:
https://www.mofga.org/event-calendar/produce-sharing-tables-an-approach-to-garden-grown-food-access/#SolarPunkSunday #SharingFood #MainersHelpingMainers #UMaineCooperativeExtension #NeighborsHelpingNeighbors #BuildingComunity #GrowYourOwnFood #FeedingNeighbors #GYO #FarmToTable #LocalFarms #LocalFood #OnlineWorkshops
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Join Illinois Extension’s Giving Garden Program https://www.allforgardening.com/1682636/join-illinois-extensions-giving-garden-program/ #education #FoodAccess #garden #gardening
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Alrighty then... I'll be boosting and re-posting a few SPS posts from yesterday, but I wanted to leave you all with this very #SolarPunk story. TY to @MaQuest and @BrambleBearSnoring and everyone else who used the hashtag. We'll be back at it next #SolarPunkSunday!
Three Years In, New York’s #UrbanAgriculture Office Has Delivered
by Haley Schusterman, January 20, 2026
"Three years in, the office is delivering on its full mandate. It built its own relationships with community leaders and advocates, launched education programs connecting students to working #farms, opened pathways for #SmallFarmers to sell to city institutions, mapped the city’s urban agriculture landscape, and pushed for procurement reform that could redirect how the city spends its food dollars. The office is working to change how eight million #NewYorkers grow, buy, and think about food, using urban agriculture as a lever for #ClimateAction, #EnvironmentalJustice, #FoodAccess, workforce development, and economic #resilience."
Read more:
https://www.nycfoodpolicy.org/three-years-in-new-yorks-urban-agriculture-office-has-delivered/#GreenerCities #UrbanFarms #UrbanGardens #FarmersMarkets #FarmToTable #FoodSecurity #NYC
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#GazaSoupKitchen Update
January 8, 2026 by #HaniAlmadhoun, Organizer
"Dear friends, allies, and partners in good,
In the last two days of 2025, the #Gaza Soup Kitchen opened its 14th location. Since then, it has been running strong. And yet, every time I think about expanding kitchens in Gaza, I don’t feel a sense of achievement. It feels like a setback for humanity.
Every meal we serve matters—but the growth of these kitchens is a painful measure of how far things have fallen. No amount of coordination, care, or sacrifice can change the truth: this is emergency survival, not dignity.
I keep coming back to the real goal we’ve always had: not to add kitchens, but to close them. Success, to me, looks like people back in their homes, cooking for their children, rather than standing in line for a meal.
What worries me most is the next generation. Children growing up in aid lines instead of classrooms, learning to ration far too early. I think of the Nakba generation, who built lives and institutions out of ruins. That same #Palestinian spirit is here—but under enormous strain. Resilience isn’t endless, and it shouldn’t be romanticized. People were never meant to live like this.
And yet, that spirit persists—in neighbors sharing crumbs, teachers refusing to stop teaching, people showing up for each other when almost nothing remains. That matters. I feel it deeply.
But care alone is not enough. Soup kitchens are a bridge, not a future. The true measure of progress isn’t how well we manage hunger, but how soon we make it unnecessary.
Our Impact Today
We are serving communities across the #GazaStrip—from #KhanYounes in the south to #BeitLahia in the north. Our kitchens serve real, edible meals—not factory food lacking taste or flavor.
We now scale to serve up to 15,000 families per week.
This week, distributions included winter clothing, baby milk and diapers, food parcels, and hygiene and cleaning supplies.
Our most effective team is in #GazaCity.
The middle-area team in #DeirElBalah is facing space challenges and newer staff, but they are accelerating their distributions and solving logistical issues.
In addition to serving families who register online:
30% of our work happens outside the registration system, with teams dispatched daily to reach disconnected communities.
Water trucks continue to roll daily—about ten per day.
The medical point in Mashrou’ Beit Lahia sees 60–80 patients a day.
The classroom in Khan Younes is teaching 30 children daily, and we are preparing to launch an orphan learning center in Gaza City within two weeks.
Looking Forward
Ramadan is just weeks away, and we’re concerned that #Israel may limit the number of trucks again, as announced yesterday. This would affect #FoodAccess and increase costs—but for now, we are holding off from buying everything in the market prematurely.
What helps us most is sharing our videos, stories, and updates—engaging, commenting, and spreading awareness. If you can, consider becoming a monthly donor.
To give context:
Our daily operational costs have risen from $15,000/day to $30,000/day.
This page used to average $5,000/day in donations, now it’s under $2,000/day.
I hate asking for money, but as our team’s response grows, donations are not keeping pace. Your support is critical, and I hope you can help us think creatively about the future.
Thank you for being here. For every crumb shared, every child fed, and every story told, your partnership matters.
With deep gratitude,
Hani
Gaza Soup KitchenP. S. In other news, Israel hit two schools today where we run kitchens, there has been injuries and at least one fatality which is tragic, our staff are unharmed as they had just washed up and left for the day."
Donate:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Hot-meals-in-gaza-daily#NorthGaza #GazaAid #GazaFundraisers #FreePalestine #Fundraisers #FoodIsLife #WaterIsLife #GoFundMe #BeitLahiya #BaitLahiya #KhanYounes #Palestine #Genocide #Starvation #IsraeliWarCrimes #NorthernGaza
Remember #ChefMahmoud
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Jenn Lovewell and her partner, Alan, recognized the imbalance.
Wealth inequality limited access to fresh seafood for lower-income communities, perpetuating a cycle where local fishers struggled to make a living while consumers found it hard to afford fresh catch.
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Share your news with us so we can share it with the food studies community!
Share your new books, journal articles, research projects, community organizations, food access initiatives, collaborations, and policy initiatives with us!
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We want to celebrate you!
#JustPublished #CurrentlyReading #FoodSovereignty #Research #CommunityFoodOrganizations #FoodAccess #FoodPolicy #BooksAboutFood
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How a Box of Produce Can Rebuild Our Food System – Food Tank https://www.allforgardening.com/1354228/how-a-box-of-produce-can-rebuild-our-food-system-food-tank/ #chicago #Dion'sChicagoDream #EconomicJustice #FoodAccess #FoodJustice #FoodSecurity #garden #gardening #GardeningCanada #Hunger
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[Short film] Tides of Tradition
"Communities like the #Unangax̂ rely on traditional #foodways instead of customary, expensive grocery suppliers. This film by Kanesia McGlashan-Price of #Unalaska, #Alaska, follows the journey of a local subsistence hunter and shares the realities of food access in the changing Arctic and the values that inform their harvest."
Watch:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uN4dee0q378&list=PLtiOgIRVt407KkUa7gtlkGIuTD5YU6bqT&index=4#IndigenousKnowledge
#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #ClimateChange #TidesOfTradition #WaterIsLife #OceansAreLife #California #ClimateChangeSolutions
#PublicTelevision #WGBH #FilmSeries #LegacyOfTheLand #ClimateChange #ChangingClimate #ArcticMelt #IndigenousFilmmakers #NOVA #FoodAccess #TraditionalHunting #AnimalProducts #IndigenousPeoplesDay -
Urgency to secure funding for the promised national school food program amidst the rise of food costs and chronic disease
Flora Zhang
Amberley T. Ruetz
Eric Ng#PublicHealth #PopulationHealth #ChildHealth #FoodPolicy #FoodAccess #HealthyFood #Nutrition #Policy #SchoolFood #ChronicDisease
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat
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Urgency to secure funding for the promised national school food program amidst the rise of food costs and chronic disease
Flora Zhang
Amberley T. Ruetz
Eric Ng#PublicHealth #PopulationHealth #ChildHealth #FoodPolicy #FoodAccess #HealthyFood #Nutrition #Policy #SchoolFood #ChronicDisease
#JustPublished #FoodStudies #NewIssue
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeathttps://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/681
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Interesting question. A 2013 paper by #LeMonde was much more leaning on #Greenpeace side.
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From mobile markets to refrigerated food pick-up lockers, communities are exploring innovative new approaches to making sure their residents have convenient, affordable access to healthy food – and they do so in a way that keeps dollars in the community.
#FoodDeserts #CommunitySolutions #SolidarityEconomy #LocalSelfReliance #FoodAccess -
Transitioning to a public-minded food system
Public food infrastructure's role in creating healthy communitiesMatilda Dipieri
#LocalFood #FoodSystems #FoodAccess #SocialInfrastructure #SchoolFood #FarmersMarkets
#OpenScholarship from Canadian Food Studies (CFS).
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeathttps://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/611
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Chicago Is Considering Opening a Municipal Grocery Store
https://jacobin.com/2023/10/chicago-municipal-grocery-store-publicly-state-owned
#ChicagoMunicipalGrocery #PubliclyOwnedGroceryStore #FoodAccess #CommunityDevelopment #LocalEconomy #PublicGoods #Politics #News
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Transitioning to a public-minded food system
Public food infrastructure's role in creating healthy communitiesMatilda Dipieri
#LocalFood #LocalFoodSystems #FoodSystems #FoodAccess #SocialInfrastructure #SchoolFood #FarmersMarkets
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food and #FoodStudies
#Repeat
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Transitioning to a public-minded food system
Public food infrastructure's role in creating healthy communitiesMatilda Dipieri
#LocalFood #FoodSystems #FoodAccess #SocialInfrastructure #SchoolFood #FarmersMarkets
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
#Repeat#FollowFriday for more #FoodStudies from CFS!
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/611
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Do you study #Food ?
Are you in the #CulinaryArts ? A #chef ? A #ChefInstructor? Working in the community on #FoodAccess ? A #Professor in #HigherEd or a #GradStudent in #GradSchoolLife ? A #CanAg #FoodActivist engaging with #FoodSovereignty ?
Looking for #CriticalScholarship on #Nutrition #FoodPolitics #financialization #FoodTrade #FoodWays #FoodCulture #BigData or a review of the latest #BooksAboutFood ?
Say hi!
Our #OpenAccess journal has a #NewIssue #ComingSoon !
Don't miss it!
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Barriers and supports to traditional food access in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia)
Amy Grann
Liesel Carlsson
Kayla Mansfield-Brown#TraditionalFood #FoodAccess #Community #Nutrition #NovaScotia
Interested in #FoodStudies ? Enjoy the article! Then dive into the back catalogue! No paywalls here! Just #OpenAccess and #KnowledgeSharing #OpenScholarship
#FoodWays #Food #Foodiehttps://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/571
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Barriers and supports to traditional food access in Mi’kma’ki (Nova Scotia)
Amy Grann
Liesel Carlsson
Kayla Mansfield-Brown#TraditionalFood #Access #FoodAccess #Community #Nutrition
From Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023): Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada
Explore #FoodWays #FoodPolitics #Food #FoodCulture & #Nutirition without paywalls! CFS is proud to be #OpenAccess
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/article/view/571
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Vol. 10 No. 1 (2023): Confronting Anti-Black, Anti-Indigenous, and Anti-Asian Racisms in Food Systems in Canada
CFS is proud to be #OpenAccess! #KnowledgeSharing #OpenScholarship
#AntiRacism #FoodSystem #InstitutionalFood #FederalPrison #PrisonFood #TraditionalFood #FoodAccess #SugarSweetenedBeverages #GoodFood #GoodFarmer #BookReview #FilmReview #DietaryGuidelines #JustPublished #NewIssue #ResourceList #FoodSystemRacism
https://canadianfoodstudies.uwaterloo.ca/index.php/cfs/issue/view/33
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ARTICLE: There Is Enough Food, Just Not Enough Food Access
"Community fridge networks across the country are an important start—and symbol—in the work to make sure everyone has enough to eat..."
https://www.yesmagazine.org/social-justice/2021/08/10/food-access-free-fridge-network
#EqualAccess #Food #FoodAccess #CommunityFridge #Sustainable
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Why does the Canadian Food Studies journal matter?
Hear from Michael Classens, Canadian Association for Food Studies president.
Check out the links in video description to #OpenAccess publications in CFS #OpenAccessJournal
#Food #Foodie #FoodWays #FoodProcurement #Teaching #TeachingFood #FoodAccess #FoodSovereignty #FoodSecurity #FoodAndAg #Farming #Agriculture #FoodCulture