posted Feb 14, 2012 1:29 PM by Somos La Semilla
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Congratulations to the following groups and organizations
receiving capacity building minigrants from Somos La Semilla and
partner WhyHunger! Somos La Semilla is awarding 10 minigrants totaling approximately $30,000. Somos La Semilla received 14 applications totaling about $65,000 worth of requests in fall 2011. We hope that there will be more opportunities in the future to
invest in these important efforts that are transforming how we live and
eat in Southern Arizona!
FARM EDUCATION RESOURCE NETWORK, Cascabel and Amado,
strategic planning for the new organization and pilot farm field trip
for youth
AJO COMMUNITY SUPPORTED AGRICULTURE,Ajo, AZ Development of a garden buddy system to support new and budding gardeners
AREVALOS FARM, Double Adobe, AZ, greenhouse
FOREVER YONG FARM, Amado, AZ washing system
TOHONO O’ODHAM COMMUNITY ACTION, Project Oidak, train young adult
leaders who started a multi-site community gardening initiative on the
Tohono O'odham Nation.
TIERRA Y LIBERTAD ORGANIZATION, Tucson, AZ rehabbing and coordination of neighborhood demonstration food production sites
DOUGLAPRIETA WORKS/DOUGLAPRIETA TRABAJAN, Douglas and Agua Prieta,
Sonora technical assistance with greenhouse construction for
neighborhood education and demonstration site and constructuction of a
model Cal-Earth-inspired Eco-Dome on site.
DEEP DIRT FARM INSTITUTE, Patagonia, AZ complete shadehouse greenhouse system
NATIVE SEEDS/SEARCH, Tucson, AZ two full scholarships during the 2012
season to Seed School students for whom tuition costs are an issue.
Technical Assistance Awards
NOGALES COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT, Nogales, AZ design of a community garden in Nogales with Elm Street residents.
DOUGLA PRIETA WORKS/TRABAJAN, greenhouse and Cal-Earth inspired Eco-Dome construction |
posted Feb 14, 2012 1:26 PM by Somos La Semilla
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Tierra Y Libertad Organization (TYLO), a Tucson
grassroots organization, has been named a winner of the national Harry
Chapin Self-Reliance Award by WhyHunger. Since 1985, WhyHunger and the
Harry Chapin Foundation have been championing community-based
organizations working to fight hunger and poverty. This year, five
groups from across the United States were funded at $10,000 each. “
We’ve carefully selected five of the top community-based organizations
in the country, all of which are taking innovative steps to push the
boundaries of the more traditional approaches to fighting hunger and
poverty,” said Bill Ayres, WhyHunger founder and executive director.
TYLO builds positive social change through community organizing and
education. It will use its Self-Reliance Award to launch small
Barrio-based business enterprises, including its existing bio-intensive
garden beds in houses and small institutions as a means of income and
healthy food for families within the Barrio.
TYLO has joined together with the CFB and other Southern Arizona
organizations in the Somos la Semilla network, a partnership of groups
working together to grow our future through healthy food systems. TYLO
also is receiving a $3,400 minigrant from Somos La Semilla.
TYLO will use the minigrant to bring their sustainability demonstration
sites up to speed, and to coordinate with their food production sites.
It is part of their goal to “develop a barrio culture of food justice in
ways that are relevant and practical to member barrio residents.”
Congratulations, Tierra Y Libertad! Visit WhyHunger 's Connect Blog for more information about other Harry Chapin Self-Reliance Award Winners
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posted Feb 14, 2012 1:16 PM by Somos La Semilla
Investing
as if Food, Farms and Fertility Mattered: A Training Workshop for Food
Activists, Ranchers, Farmers, Investors and Donors Featuring Woody Tasch
of Slow Money and a panel of Santa Cruz County Food Producers
--Investing as if Food, Farms, and Fertility Mattered--
An Educational Workshop Featuring
Woody Tasch of Slow Money
and a panel of Santa Cruz County Food Producers
Could
there ever be an alternative stock exchange dedicated to slow, small,
and local? Could a million American families get their food from CSAs?
What if you had to invest 50 percent of your assets
within 50 miles of where you live?
Such
questions—at the heart of slow money—represent the first steps on our
path to a new economy. Inquiries into the Nature of Slow Money presents
an essential new strategy for investing in local food
systems and introduces a group of fiduciary activists who are exploring
what should come after industrial finance and industrial agriculture.
Leading the charge is
Woody Tasch—whose decades of work as a venture
capitalist, foundation treasurer, and entrepreneur now shed new light
on a truer, more beautiful, more prudent kind of fiduciary
responsibility.
JOIN US as we host
Woody Tasch for an educational workshop and gathering to be able to learn, discuss and even begin to stimulate a new kind of economy
More details and tickets available at
www.investlocallyaz.eventbrite.com.
Panel to include:
- Paul Schwennesen, Double Check Ranch
- Todd Bostock, Dos Cabezas WineWorks
- John Hall, Canela Bistro
- Duncan Blair, Rio Santa Cruz
- and other Santa Cruz County, Arizona food producers
Moderated by:
- Gary Paul Nabhan, Southwest Center for Food and Water Security at the University of Arizona
- Natalie Morris, Cultivate Santa Cruz
Tuesday, February 28, 2012 from 1:00 PM to 4:00 PM (MT)
Elgin, AZ at the Elgin Community Club |
posted Sep 28, 2011 2:01 PM by Somos La Semilla
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Jen
Chapin, folksinger and activist, hosts a workshop, Wednesday, October
5th called "Food Justice A New Movement to Nourish America.” This
country has become very efficient at providing so-called “emergency
food” to people in need, often at the expense of asking fundamental
questions about justice, jobs, and sustainability. How can we join
together as eaters, advocates, farmers, entrepreneurs, public servants,
and artists, to help build the new movement for good, local, sustainable
food for all?visit www.globalchangemultimedia.org for more information |
posted Aug 29, 2011 3:14 PM by Somos La Semilla
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posted Aug 29, 2011 3:12 PM by Somos La Semilla
posted Jul 26, 2011 11:55 AM by Somos La Semilla
By Daniela Hernandez, Los Angeles Times
July 17, 2011
Better access to supermarkets — long touted as a way to curb obesity
in low-income neighborhoods — doesn't improve people's diets, according
to new research. The study, which tracked thousands of people in
several large cities for 15 years, found that people didn't eat more
fruits and vegetables when they had supermarkets available in their
neighborhoods. Instead, income — and proximity to fast-food restaurants — were the strongest factors in food choice. read more
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posted Jul 7, 2011 11:11 AM by Somos La Semilla
Watershed management to give Certification Training in Fall 2011 in Tucson. Certificación en la Cosecha del Agua en Español: Fall 2011, Tucson, AZ, – November 4-13. More information/ para mas informacion http://www.watershedmg.org/tech-trainings
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