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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 Greg Bloom | March 8th, 2010

Blogging’s great and everything, but here at the DC Food For All we also like to actually see each other in person every so often. So each month we host a workshop at Bread for the City , where participants set the agenda, learn from each other, and of course share a delicious dinner.

The next workshop is tomorrow at 6pm! Bread for the City is located at 1525 7th St NW, right by the Shaw metro. Email us to RSVP, or join the Google Group to stay posted in the meantime.

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!

Posted by Liz Whitehurst | February 25th, 2010

By Robert Thomason

When Yao Afantchao first left his village in Togo for the United States relatives and friends showered him with gifts of local foods so that he would not be without his native diet. Loaded with mangoes, the peanuts of his region and dried delicacies he crossed the Atlantic.

But when the US Customs Service inspected his bags at JFK Airport, his first lesson in U.S. food economics and practices was a shock. The foodstuff of Afantchao’s homeland was confiscated.

Posted by Greg Bloom | December 9th, 2009

Hi. You might have noticed that our website is still a little hard to navigate. We’re working on an upgrade, promise! In the meantime, we’d like to take a step back to recap the past month here on the DC Food For All, lest any of these great stories fall through the cracks.

Policy changes

Changes in the city

Triumph over homelessness and hunger

Posted by Louise Thundercloud | December 8th, 2009

So here’s my question: since low self-esteem leads to repeat homeless, shouldn’t self-esteem building be offered more often to end the cycle of homeless? Where food is concerned, couldn’t more opportunities be aimed directly at the homeless community in the form of shift work, enabling the person to earn groceries they want & are able to fix themselves, thereby providing an avenue for empowerment?

Posted by Greg Bloom | October 27th, 2009

Hey, guys,

Some of you may have noticed that we’re having some site issues. In order to test our repairs, we need to have one dummy post for the developers to be able to see.  So, here it is.

This is a graphic loaded from another website.  Dheeraj is awfully fond of Marvel Comics, so is it any surprise that he chose this one?

Now, here’s an uploaded picture of Dheeraj, brooding away at a bar. Look at how emo he is!

And now, finally, a You Tube video of a song that Dheeraj finds incredibly amusing: