Upcoming Events and Ongoing Projects

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

Upcoming Events and Ongoing Projects

Tuesday, Nov. 11, 5PM in Radnor/St. David's Room of Connelly Center: Career Services-sponsored Panel on Work in the Non-Profit Sector, featuring Jo Rosen of Mill Creek Urban Farm
Friday, Nov. 14, 9AM-1PM: trip to Mill Creek Urban Farm
work with Villanova Dining Services to help them expand their composting program and make the most of the Herb Garden Project started last year in front of Dougherty Hall
possible fundraiser for Heifer International during Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week or in the future
indigenous Thanksgiving group meal and recipe handout

Please join us in these projects and send any suggestions and resources our way!

And for some food for thought (I'm sure that's not funny anymore), check out Slow Food International, which just had it's biennial international conference Terra Madre in Turin, Italy. Some short and really interesting articles from the end of the conference can be found here and here. Maybe some of us can go to the Terra Madre Conference in 2010!

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What We're About

The members of Just Food are brought together by our deep concern about issues related to food and a desire to promote justice. We are really impressed with the fact that food is so universal - that all people can relate to it because it is such a basic need, yet infinitely explorable, since culture, politics, and economics effect how (why, what, where, when, with whom) people eat. We are upset that such an essential part of everyday life is now dominated by the control of huge corporations and that local, small-scale agriculture is being lost. We are also curious as to how laws, money, and beliefs play into what (and again how, where, when, with whom, why) we eat. We believe that more equitable solutions are possible within our food system, to ensure that more people nearby and far away can eat the healthy, natural, and fresh foods their bodies need, that our relationship with the environment is one of cooperation and not exploitation, and that people enjoy growing, preparing, and eating food together. We are interested in learning more about our local food system, celebrating and fostering the things that seem to be working for the collective benefit (CSAs, the organic and local movements, etc.), and critiquing and exploring those things that aren't (GMOs, patented seeds, processed junk foods in schools, etc.). We hope to schedule film screenings, invite speakers, visit farmer's markets and possibly a local farm, share snacks and meals, and have some great discussions about food.

Note: We are not affiliated with Just Food of New York, even though we admire their work. The circumstances of a similar name were coincidental.

Fair Food - Villanova University

Fair Food Members at Mill Creek Urban Farm, November 2008

Wednesday, November 5, 2008