Food & (anti-)Race(-ism)
The IU Food Institute proposes to dedicate its 2020-21 seminar to the topic of food and race. Seen locally, nationally and globally the intersection of race and food highlights important issues of racial inequity in areas that include land access, farming, food processing, and access to adequate and healthy foods. Renewed awareness regarding indigenous foodways around the world is also pointing the way to a more sustainable future. In the present context of rising nationalisms and a pandemic that impacts already disadvantaged racial groups more than others, these issues take on special urgency.
Friday, 30 October 2020 @9am - A Conversation with Keitlyn Alcantra and Lauren McCalister.
Register here
***
Indiana Uplands Food Network Webinar Series
Second Tuesday of each month at 1:00 pm EST
Tuesday, November 10th, 1:00 pm EST
Sharing the Labor, Sharing the Love: Strengthening Community from the Ground Up
Karen Mitchell from Purdue University will present about her work with Grow Local, an organization in Lafayette, IN dedicated to strengthening communities and enhancing quality of life through establishing and supporting community-shared gardens. Using cornerstone institutions such as faith-based organizations, social service centers, and others as locations for the gardens helps the program thrive. Watch this short introduction video to learn more! If you have specific questions that you would like Karen to address, please email mitcheka@purdue.edu.
Register here.
Tuesday, December 8th, 1:00 pm EST
Growing Christmas Trees in Indiana
James Farmer from Indiana University will present on his research with Indiana Christmas tree growers and consumers, exploring the challenges of an increasingly competitive marketplace as well as the surprising opportunity it presents for local farmers to add Christmas trees as a low maintenance, high value crop to their operations. You can explore the reports generated from this research on the SFSS website.
Register here.
Sign up for the Indiana Uplands Food Network mailing list to stay up to date with future events and webinars, and join the Indiana Uplands Facebook group to connect with others in the network!
***
The Campus Kitchen, a student-run initiative operating since spring 2019, has been instrumental of the success of the EMP in summer 2020. With the beginning of the fall semester and the EMP project successfully at a close in July, this student-led organization has joined forces with the IU Campus Farm and the Crimson Cupboard to provide a CSA-style service to food insecure students at IU.
The Campus Kitchen has resumed operations at Goodbody Eatery on Tuesdays between 6-7 PM by giving out ingredient boxes full of fresh produce to cook healthy meals at home. Boxes are given out on a first come, first served basis, while observing IU pandemic guidelines with mandated mask wearing and observing physical distancing. The Campus Supported Agriculture initiative boxes come with recipes ideas, cooking instructions, and information on locally grown produce. Over 80 boxes have been distributed so far via two locations, Goodbody Eatery and the Crimson Cupboard with recipes provided by the IU Food Project.
As usual, Lindsey Nelson and Cally Wilken, CK coordinators, are hard at work managing volunteers and making sure food is available to those who need it.
