Meanwhile, in the #BadEconomy
> U.S. food bank system is in distress: 'The urgency of this crisis cannot be overstated' https://irjci.blogspot.com/2025/05/us-food-bank-system-is-in-distress.html
https://www.europesays.com/2040012/ Allen Neighborhood Center loses AmeriCorps volunteers due to DOGE cuts #5:30PM #85PERCENT #ALLENNEIGHBORHOODCENTER #Americorps #anderson #COLEMAN #COMMUNITYCOMMISSION #DepartmentOfGovernmentEfficiency #doge #ElonMusk #FederalFunding #FoodInsecurity #FoodPantry #FundingCuts #GARDENHOUSE #KUZNICKI #LocalNews #market #Michigan #Musk #NEWS10AT6 #SHOWAT5 #SHOWAT6 #StaffCuts #trump #volunteers
https://www.europesays.com/2012703/ Federal job cuts in Kansas City threaten local economy, essential services #EconomicImpact #Economy #FederalCuts #FoodInsecurity #JobLosses #KansasCity #PublicHealth #TrumpAdministration #USDAGrant
Yearly, about 50 million people in the US use the services of a food bank or food pantry. There is something terribly wrong with a wealthy country, one of the world's top ten, whose people can't afford to feed themselves.
Trump regime is exacerbating food insecurity in the US.
#foodinsecurity
#hungerinamerica
https://www.newsweek.com/americas-looming-food-bank-crisis-2060852
Meat is at the heart of crises: #climatechange, nitrogen #pollution, #biodiversity loss, #deforestation, zoonotic #diseases, antimicrobial resistance #AMR, #foodinsecurity, unhealthy #diets, and institutionalized neglect of #animalwelfare, workers & local communities… (1/x) doi.org/10.59704/4c6...
The Heidelberg Declaration on ...
Perhaps you should be renamed “Community InDignity.”
Yet another slap in the face for this #disabled #queer #ActuallyAutistic #poor person who is doing everything they can, yet regularly refused assistance.
In this case offered help, but then snatched away at the last second.
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Anything helps!!! Even just $5!!!
Consider planting an extra row for the hungry in your garden this spring
If you’re going to plant fruits, vegetables or herbs this spring, why not grow some extra for your local soup kitchen or pantry?
By JESSICA DAMIANO, March 18, 2025
"If you’re gearing up to plant fruits, vegetables or herbs this spring, why not grow some extra to donate to your local #SoupKitchen or #FoodPantry?
"The national #PlantARowForTheHungry campaign, launched in 1995, has been encouraging home and community gardeners to do just that every year to help feed neighbors in need of fresh food.
"The program was spearheaded in 1995 by Anchorage Daily News garden columnist Jeff Lowenfels, who wrote a column encouraging his readers to plant extra crops and donate their harvests.
"After seeing the impact that his column had on local food donations, Lowenfels partnered with GardenComm International, then known as Garden Writers of America, to enlist garden columnists all over the country to promote the cause in their own communities. Since then, more than 20 million pounds of produce, providing more than 80 million meals, have been donated through the campaign by home gardeners.
"'All of this has been achieved without government subsidy or bureaucratic red tape — just people helping people,' according to organizers on the campaign’s website. And there’s no big advertising campaign, either — just garden columnists and their readers spreading the word."
Read more:
https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2025/03/18/gardening-for-the-hungry/
#BuildingCommunity #FoodInsecurity #FoodSecurity #SolarPunkSunday #CommunityGardens
#LovelandCO - Still a green thumb: Loveland high schooler keeps up community garden started when she was 10-years-old
Story by Austin Fleskes, March 22, 2025
"Lauren Dietz was only 10 years old when she signed up for a Thompson School District contest to make an impact in her community. When the fifth grader at New Vision Charter School won, she used the money for a community garden to try and cut down on food insecurity in Loveland.
"That garden is still operating today, and the 15-year-old Mountain View High School freshman has no intention of stepping away from it.
"'I wouldn’t want to pass this off to anybody else,' she said. 'This is a passion project that I love doing and I want to keep doing it.'
"Lauren’s Community Garden offers 10 metal planting plots at the Loveland Youth Gardeners’ farm in east Loveland where residents can plant and grow their own food. Throughout the season, they are given the chance to work with other gardeners and and even get advice from LYG master gardeners to learn more about the ins and outs of growing.
"The free opportunity asks only that the gardeners be able to tend their space at least 30 minutes every other day and volunteer some of their time with the #YouthGardeners.
"Lauren won the Thompson Kids Can Change the World contest in 2021, receiving $250 with the goal of making a positive difference in her community. She said she looked to set up the community garden because she saw the impact of #FoodInsecurity on her community during the pandemic, explaining as she stood near the 10 metal planting plots at the Loveland Youth Gardeners’ farm in east Loveland. She said she saw the contest as an outlet to address that.
[...]
"Residents looking to apply to be part of the community garden this year can do so online at lovelandyouthgardeners.org. The growing season runs from May through October and those looking to apply must do so by May 1."
Full article:
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/other/still-a-green-thumb-loveland-high-schooler-keeps-up-community-garden-started-when-she-was-10-years-old/ar-AA1BqkCl
#BuildingCommunity #CommunityGardens #FoodSecurity #SolarPunkSunday #Colorado
How America's Youth Is Transforming Food Deserts into Food Oases!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1X3s3fvJfU
In New Mexico's desert incredible transformations are happening to turn urban wastelands into thriving edible gardens.
Project Feed the Hood is a food literacy and community gardening initiative of SWOP that aims to improve community health through education and revival of traditional growing methods.
#KansasCity #CommunityGardens the latest #nonprofit to feel impact of federal funding cuts
By Nathan Brennan
Published: Mar. 9, 2025 at 6:00 PM EDT
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - "Kansas City Community Gardens has been serving the metro since 1979, officially 501c3 in 1985. The nonprofit helps out thousands of families every year, but like so many other nonprofits across the country, their federal funding is on pause.
KCCG Executive Director Jennifer Meyer said the nonprofit already budgeted for $300,000 of federal grant money to be reimbursed throughout the year. After the most recent federal cuts, that money isn’t showing up.
"'We’re having to be really conservative on how we approach the spring season,' Meyer said. 'Those grants operate on a reimbursement basis, so we do the work, buy the seeds, buy the fruit trees, and then submit billing on those grants. We have not seen a reimbursement come through since December of last year, so right now, that’s all on hold and uncertain.'
"Kansas City Community Gardens has been serving the metro since 1979, officially 501c3 in 1985.
"Meyer said the garden won’t have to shut down, there are enough donors to keep the garden running during the spring season. However, #KCCG is still feeling the impacts by having to trim seasonal staff. If federal grant money doesn’t show up at all, Meyer said the nonprofit will have to make some tough decisions.
"'Last year, #FoodInsecurity rates quietly crept back up to pandemic levels, so our community needs food,' Meyer said. 'We know that #gardening is a great way to get #HealthyFood into neighborhoods and families who are on a tight budget, so this funding lets us do that.'
"Meyer expects the spring season to run as normal, just with fewer staff. KCCG offers an annual membership program with fees based on income and the number of people in a household. Membership ranges from $2 to $45.
According to the KCCG reader’s digest, enrollment includes:
- 10 free packs of seeds and the opportunity to buy more at a low-cost member price
- Free 10-pound bag of fertilizer
- Starter plants, including vegetables and herb transplants, fruit trees, berry bushes and more at a low-cost member price
- Low-cost garden supplies, such as straw, compost and pest control products
- Low-cost tilling services and access to KCCG rental plot gardens."
Learn more about Kansas City Community Gardens’ outreach and resources at this link:
https://kccg.org/
#CommunityGardens #USDAFundingCuts
#USPol #FoodInsecurity #BadDOGE #Hunger #Missouri
Interested in gardening but have no access to land? Want to grow your own food but aren't sure where to start? Passionate about food security? Come out on April 13 for a volunteer meetup at ComeUnity Roots Garden and see what we're all about!
(and hopefully the snow will be gone by then so you can actually see the garden)
#CommunityGarden #DTK #Kitchener #IronHorseTrail #gardening #garden #foodSovereignty #FoodSecurity #FoodInsecurity #volunteer @WaterlooEvents @waterlooregion
Firings at US #weather and #oceans agency risk lives and economy, former agency heads warn
By SETH BORENSTEIN
Updated 9:48 AM EST, March 1, 2025
WASHINGTON (AP) — "The federal weather and oceans agency touches people’s daily lives in unnoticed ways, so massive firings there will likely cause needless deaths and a big hit to America’s economy, according to the people who ran it.
"The first round of firings started Thursday at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, a government agency that monitors the oceans, the atmosphere where storms roam and space, and puts out hundreds of 'products' daily. Those products generally save lives and money, experts say.
"#NOAA’s 301 billion weather forecasts every year reach 96% of American households.
The firings are 'going to affect safety of flight, safety of shipping, safety of everyday Americans,' Admiral Tim Gallaudet told The Associated Press Friday. President Donald Trump appointed Gallaudet as acting NOAA chief during his last administration. 'Lives are at risk for sure.'
"Former NOAA Administrator Rick Spinrad agreed.
"'We’re getting into prime #tornado time. We’re getting into #planting season for the agricultural season for the bread belt,' Spinrad said. 'It’s going to affect safety. It’s going to affect the economy.'"
https://apnews.com/article/noaa-doge-federal-cuts-musk-weather-danger-6f60e7c511989aeff8930ae87c9a5ee8
#USPol #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #PolyCrisis #HungerGames #FoodInsecurity #WeatherForecasts #ExtremeWeather #Safety #Spaceweather #SolarFlares #ClimateScientists #OceanWarming #Oceanographers #BadDOGE
Food Security
Canadian Food Studies has a large collection of open access scholarship on food security. No paywalls! Just knowledge sharing!
#Read all you want! #OpenAccess
#Share generously! #KnowledgeSharing
#Grow your understanding of #Food
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