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Posted by Julia Eddy | May 27th, 2010

June is short, so let’s seize the moment!

DC Food For All Workshop
Thursday June 3rd
6:00 – 8:00pm
Bread for the City
1525 7th St NW

Come be a part of the dialogue around food systems, justice, and access to healthy & affordable food in the DC metro area. Workshop discussion topics range (everything and anything from policy to community potlucks, from urban ag to culture) and are shaped by the participants. Tell us what interests you! Explore the blog for more info.

RSVP or send questions to DCFoodforAll@gmail.com. When you do so, please let us know if you can bring something for potluck dinner and also share a bit about what interests you.

And bring a friend, spread the word to other folks who might dig what we’re doing!
Varying levels of experience always welcome.

Posted by Julia Eddy | April 19th, 2010

DC Food for All Workshop
Thursday (4/22, Earth Day!)
5:30pm-7:30pm
Bread for the City (1525 7th St NW)

Building from the “un”conference style, the participants shape the content. You can come with topics/questions that intrigue or baffle you, or you can come ready to explain and teach…or both. Past discussions have spanned policy, access, supply/demand, innovative community projects and events, and much more…Curiosity, inspiration, and varying levels of experience with food issues and blogging are always welcome.

RSVP to DCFoodforAll@gmail.com if you think you can make it. When you do so, please let us know if you can bring something for potluck dinner and also share any preliminary ideas you might have for discussion groups – itching questions or burning passions around food access.

And spread the word to other folks who might dig what we’re doing!

Posted by Julia Eddy | April 5th, 2010

We had an amazing turnout last month for the (first) volunteer work day at City Blossoms’ Marion Street Garden! The shovels and clippers came out and the transformation from overgrown lot to community-powered green space began.

But there is much work still to be done! And the DC Food For All would like to continue to offer our support. On Saturday, April 10, starting at 11AM, we will have a second workday on Marion Street NW and we’d love to see you there! Please RSVP for the garden day here. And send any questions to DCFoodForAll@gmail.com

Posted by Julia Eddy | March 10th, 2010

It’s almost spring time – and we are so ready to get gardening! Fortunately, City Blossoms has an exciting new project in the works.

There’s a plot of vacant land on Marion Street, NW — located just behind Bread for the City, between P and Q and 6th and 7th streets, less than a block away from the Kennedy Recreation Center — that will soon be transformed into an intergenerational community garden with educational opportunities for children, youth and adults. (See the beautiful artists’ rendering below.)

And City Blossoms needs our help to make that transformation happen! So on Saturday March 20th at 11AM, the DC Food For All will host a volunteer Garden Gang day. As inspired by the recent NYT profile of “crop mobs,” we’re looking for 15-20 volunteers to help prepare the site for construction and the growing season ahead. We’ll spend a few hours working together on things like:

• sheet mulching!
• leveling!
• pulling out very very stubborn old weeds!
• setting up a fence!
• picking up trash!!
• and some planting!

So we need you — as well as any tools (large shovels, rakes, pick axes, large forks) that you may be able to provide for the afternoon.

RSVP to DCFoodForAll@gmail.com. Let’s get gardening!

Posted by Julia Eddy | February 26th, 2010

This was the busiest week in 4 months of the DC Food For All! In addition to today’s important reporting on problems with DC’s new farmers’ market WIC program, we featured ample coverage of the fantastic RootingDC conference; testimony from City Council oversight hearings about big trouble with food stamps administration; coverage of the protest of a Safeway closing; coverage of a new Columbia Heights farmers market opening; and… chickens!

We’ve just passed the four month mark and the 100th post mark(!), so it’s a good time to reflect: the DC Food for All has had more than 40 contributors posting on all matters of local food justice issues. There are 150 people (smart and lively ones!) on our discussion list– have you joined it? (Want to stay posted about big announcements and events, but protect your inbox? Join our announcement list.) We’ve also had 4-5 successful workshops and 3 fantastic potlucks. All done entirely by volunteers.

Plus there is a huge swath of ideas and people and energy swirling around us that has yet to tapped. This is exciting stuff!

One important thing that we’ve learned in all this is that it’s not enough to just sit around and talk about important food issues — and it’s not enough to just blog about them either! To create real momentum, we have to gather together, communicate about what we care about, and then take action in our community.

And so we’re developing a regular calendar of events and activities — throughout the year ahead. I encourage you to attend our next workshop: March 9th, 6:30-8:30p, at Bread for the City. Email us at DCFoodForAll@gmail.com to RSVP or ask questions.

Thanks to everyone who has contributed and volunteered so far!