Soul Fire Faem Summary
As a student working alongside Gardening the Community, I was excited about this Food, Work and Social Justice panel. This panel contained three individuals who have careers based around educating the community about food justice. Natalie Penniman, is a food justice educator and activist who works on Soul Fire Farm in New York. Soul Fire faem has a committeed relationshop to its community by providing high quality food and fresh produce every week. Natalie believes that understanding our country’s history is an important aspect of understanding the injustice food system. She has deep understanding of our ancestors who first came to America and began working on farms. Natalie said, “Farming began with stolen land and stolen labor.” Natalie emphasized
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Touissant began talking about his work with GTC on food justice, youth, equity and sustainability. He began talking about bringing sustainiability to Springfield, in particular, the Mason Square/ Six Acres area. Toussiant mentioned that GTC is partnered with the New England Farming Assocation to bring power and justice to the community. Touissant taked about youth representing their organization by presenting them with ambassador based positions because GTC doesn’t believe in a hierarchy. Touissant discussed how youth has a voice that represents other youth and encourage others to join their cause. Touissant shared an empowering story of two youth working on a particular aspect of a farm. One male was White and the other was Black. Both youth admitted that they had made pre-judgements about one another. However, the film Hunger Games brought them together. They were able to bond over a film and break those racial barriers.
In closing. I enjoyed this panel of speakers. Each speaker was well- rounded in their field and had a lot of incredible points to make. I feel that each speaker could have incorporated more photos or videos to show the hands - on type of work they do. This event felt a little rushed, therefore, I would recommend extending the timing of this
Touissant began talking about his work with GTC on food justice, youth, equity and sustainability. He began talking about bringing sustainiability to Springfield, in particular, the Mason Square/ Six Acres area. Toussiant mentioned that GTC is partnered with the New England Farming Assocation to bring power and justice to the community. Touissant taked about youth representing their organization by presenting them with ambassador based positions because GTC doesn’t believe in a hierarchy. Touissant discussed how youth has a voice that represents other youth and encourage others to join their cause. Touissant shared an empowering story of two youth working on a particular aspect of a farm. One male was White and the other was Black. Both youth admitted that they had made pre-judgements about one another. However, the film Hunger Games brought them together. They were able to bond over a film and break those racial barriers.
In closing. I enjoyed this panel of speakers. Each speaker was well- rounded in their field and had a lot of incredible points to make. I feel that each speaker could have incorporated more photos or videos to show the hands - on type of work they do. This event felt a little rushed, therefore, I would recommend extending the timing of this