American Farmland Trust’s Post

California #Wheat served in California #schools 🌾🌾🌾 Once someone asked me: "why Wheat2School? and how it fits in with your work for the California Wheat Commission ?" I answered: "it targets every aspect of our #mission including market development, research, outreach, and education" 📈 Market development: we are reducing barriers, creating a roadmap, and opening up a new market for California Wheat producers. 🧬🍞 Research: In order to develop school meals approved recipes, we have done a lot of research and development (trial and error) inside our wheat lab using California wheat varieties. All recipes have been shared with the schools for implementation. 👋🏼 Outreach: developing new partnerships, bringing in awareness, and getting new grants have all been part of this objective. 📚 Education: our CA Wheat law states that is paramount that the CA Wheat Commission develops programs about wheat nutrition education. Our program is doing that and more. So, here you go! San Miguel Unified School District is an example of our success story that delivers every component of our Wheat2School program as a final food product served to students. More about this here:

Well, wow. These funds will be awarded by lottery to qualified nominees. Who do I know that meets this definition: Eligible groups are food policy councils in the US working to effect better food policy through civic collaboration. Their work could include, but is not limited to actions, such as: Increasing levels of inclusive and  equitable stakeholder engagement in public processes Engaging systems thinking when tackling complex food system challenges Facilitating collaboration with and across  local government agencies and departments Developing or revising local policies and plans

It is back to school season! Want to learn about how you can positively impact your students with food justice? This online course is for you! https://lnkd.in/g7pYXjy5

How do we tackle food insecurity? For Georgia, it’s through community and collaboration. Read how Metro-Atlanta communities, the University of Georgia Cooperative Extension, the USDA, and University of Georgia Archway Partnership are creating unique, co-creative ways to nourish Georgia’s Communities. https://lnkd.in/dRb6x-De

A BOOK! Here's an excerpt from the introduction: “Anne Moertel, from the Center for Ecoliteracy, a California-based nonprofit organization that has been engaged in school food systems change for more than twenty-five years, tells the story of how California became the first state in the US to create a universal school meal program in 2021. Moertel articulates core strategies and lessons from this campaign that secured government-funding and policy commitments to provide every student with free, freshly prepared, California-grown school meals and food education opportunities.”

Well done to Eat Wild and to Tops Day Nursery. Well researched and written piece in the Times here pointing out the cost to drivers and to agriculture of deer overpopulation in the UK. Only when the militant, anti hunting vegetarians and vegans realise the threat to UK agriculture and the implications of relying solely on imported foods will media such as the BBC and the other left wing media realise how important game hunting and personal choice is. As it is we have a multitude of famers having issues with poorly thought out laws and guidelines, DEFRA allows pollution of the waterways and their IT system is causing issues with subsidy payments to farmers. These same farmers have to cope with supermarkets failing to pay them a fair rate for their produce leaving the UK with millions of acres of grassland and farmland lost to carbon credit woodland and development since 2010 (see farming UK July 2022 or the Independent July 2020). Farmland enough to produce 250,000 tonnes of homegrown food per annum gone forever. Perhaps it is now time to support game shooting and famers alike before the UK becomes a concrete metropolis incapable of sustaining any meaningful home grown produce? Well BBC News The Labour Party will you support UK sustainably and sensible game hunting?

As a person with lived experience in food insecurity its an honor to be working on these issues.

Check out the latest from Food & Society at the Aspen Institute: CONVERSATIONS ON FOOD JUSTICE: THE WORK OF BLACK FARMERS https://lnkd.in/e6W6YbZj It's a great lineup of speakers and well worth the listen. From the conversation summary: "The impact of structural racism on the wealth and economic opportunities afforded to black families is staggering. For black farmers, a long history of discrimination and unjust agricultural practices—from the unequal administration of government farm support programs and policies aimed at bolstering large-scale agriculture, to discriminatory lending practices that keep farmers from accessing capital—have decimated opportunities for prosperity and cost families their land, livelihoods, and agency. In this conversation, we’ll uncover the barriers to entry that make it difficult for black farms to thrive. We’ll also explore the ways that farmers and activists are turning the tide to build resilient agricultural communities." Corby Kummer Mary Castillo Nicole Corea

Non sibi, sed suis While resources are provided for food on-campus, there are still segments of students that experience difficulties with accessing food. As a result, a trio of students formed Students Against Food Insecurity (SAFI), which has partnered with various organizations and departments to distribute over 3,500 pounds of food to the Tulane community. Learn more about the efforts and positive changes SAFI has brought to Uptown. 📰: bit.ly/4clvvgz

Food is a human right.