The following is an excerpt from the Young Farmers 2019 Organizing Handbook. Thank you to Sara Black, Tess Brown-Lavoie, Michelle Hughes, Mai Nguyen, and Holly Rippon-Butler for their contributions to this section. The National Young Farmers Coalition is a national
By Sara Black, NYFC Development Coordinator and Organizer Last year I had the privilege of chatting with Elizabeth Henderson, a pioneer of the CSA model in the United States and an agrarian leader committed to resisting the many injustices of a
The Coalition of Immokalee Workers (CIW) is an organization that works towards food justice and corporate social responsibility, as well as working to end human trafficking and other labor abuses in the agriculture system. One of their biggest projects is
It’s not too late to be involved in IATP’s Food + Justice = Democracy conference that was held in September. The Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy held the conference in Minneapolis, MN on September 24-26. The conference, reaching out
A helpful model for bringing together organic consumers, sustainability advocates, and local farmers was sponsored by Indiana University South Bend, which recently hosted the Michiana Food Summit to explore key topics such as shopping locally, supporting community gardens, and creating