Welcome to our food justice podcast, Root to Seed! So many of us are experiencing resistance to the forced disconnect we’ve endured over the past few months; these recordings feature meaningful conversation about how we come together around the work of building community resilience and social justice through supporting our food system, especially when global events threaten to divide us. In these recorded conversations we learn about the essential partnerships that make this work happen, and dig into what motivates us.
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Food Justice Podcast Episodes
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Executive Director MaryAnn Martinez and Board President Ruth Dudding discuss CFI's past food justice work, along with long-standing food justice issues in Appalachia.
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In this episode, we learn more about how collaborations are essential to food justice work, looking as an example at the local partnership between Community Food Initiatives' Donation Station and Rural Action's Sustainable Agriculture program.
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In this episode, we sit down with Director of Garden Programs Molly Gassaway and past COMCorps volunteer Basil Stein to explore what gardens look like in the vast context of food justice.
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In this episode we talk to Jake Amlin of Federal Hocking Local Schools about the Farm to School program and what food justice looks like in a school facility.
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In the second part of our conversation with Jake Amlin, we dive deeper into growing the future.
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In this episode of Root to Seed, we talk the HIVE, community dinner, and Nourishing Networks with our guests Dottie and Paige.
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In this episode, we talk with local Southeast Ohio residents about the health of our region
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In this episode, we discuss SNAP benefits in-depth, along with the other vital programs that Ohio Job & Family Services brings to the region.
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In this episode, we sit down with our friend Patrick Tegge to discuss his work providing SNAP education classes through OSU Extension. Patrick shares his perspective on the barriers that keep people from accessing SNAP, and what we can all do to support this essential program.
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In this episode, Rural Action’s Tom Redfern helps us understand what makes an eligible SNAP vendor as we dig into the question “Why can’t places like the Chesterhill Produce Auction accept SNAP Benefits?”
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In this episode, we sit down with Athens Farmers Market Manager Tanya Hire! Tanya tells us all about what it takes to sustain a local economy by supporting beginning farmers and making local produce accessible to people in need.
