This post was contributed by Meredith Ledlie Johnson, the Community Nutrition Coordinator for the Food Security Project in Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Family Nutrition Program. Virginia Cooperative Extension’s Family Nutrition Program is proud to be a part of a new gardening …
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A Focus on Food Access
This post has been contributed by Sarah Misyak, a graduate student in the department of Human Nutrition, Foods & Exercise at Virginia Tech. My career at Virginia Tech has been long and varied. I began with exercise and health promotion,…
Upcoming Regional Events and Resources: December
Webinars December 11: Connecting Beginning Farmers to Farmers Markets – A Virginia Beginning Farmer & Rancher Coalition Program webinar | To participate in this webinar, please go to: http://connect.ag.vt.edu/access2farmersmarket/ at 3:00 pm EST December 12: Food Banks as Regional “Good Food”…
Upcoming Regional Events and Resources: November
Job Opportunities The West Virginia Food & Farm Coalition seeks a dynamic and committed individual to help build and support West Virginia’s rapidly growing local food system in the position of Program Coordinator. View the full job description. The NIFA…
Feeding the World With Empty Bowls
At first glance, the Empty Bowls studio in Burnsville, NC appears to be just another site enriching Yancey County’s vibrant local art scene. However, upon talking to its founders, Lisa Blackburn and John Hartom, it was clear there’s much more…
A Reflection on Growing Power
This post has been contributed by Alexis Bressler, a former VISTA worker for PLENTY! and a graduate of the Virginia Tech Civic Agriculture and Food Systems Minor. Prior to going to Growing Power I purposefully did not do much research into…
Virginia AFP Task Force: New Food Systems Council
This post is contributed by the Appalachian Virginia Food System Council Hello Virginia AFP Stakeholders! The VA-AFP task force is proud to announce that the direction our work has taken over the last 3 months is the formation of a regional…
Second Chance Breakfast
This post is contributed by Carmen Procida of Youth Empowered Solutions! (Yes!). Click the picture to learn about the exciting work with Second Chance Breakfast and see an example of the YES! youth empowerment model in action. YES! is a…
Harnessing GIS Technology for Food System Development and Enhancing Food Access in Appalachian Virginia
This article has been contributed by Jennifer Lamb, a Fellow at Appalachian Sustainable Development. The following work was funded through the United States Department of Agriculture Risk Management Agency. In September 2012, Appalachian Sustainable Development (ASD) teamed up with Dr. Andrew…
Community Food Security Toolkit: Community Food Summits
Solutions to complex problems require creativity, vision, and a deep understanding of the issues at hand. Communities and organizations are using food summits as a way to bring a diversity of voices together to learn more about food security, to…