Tag: <span>local food production</span>

Seeding a Revolution: Sovereignty and Connection in the Food System

“Seeds are living things…intimately connected and intertwined with story, and lineage and place and people”  – Rowan White, Sierra Seeds Can you remember the last time you held a seed? We all have ancestors who carried seeds, yet today we have little relationship with the food we eat and the …

From Sustainable Economic Development to Food Systems Ag-Tech Innovation

Recent college graduates are increasingly valuing innovation, social justice, and sustainability in their professional goals. Like many other ambitious, problem solving, social justice and environmentally minded young people, I joined the U.S. Peace Corps, dedicating two years of my early professional life to international development. Any RPCV (Returned Peace Corps …