Roots of Change (ROC) is very grateful for all the phone calls made by our allies up and down the State who sought to motivate our Senators to craft a better Food and Farm Bill.
The opportunity to transform federal food and farm policy only comes once every five years. We’ll need every voice to achieve what we want.
Congress is hard at work on the reauthorization of a U.S Farm Bill. The Senate Agriculture Committee has completed four Congressional hearings and reports indicate the Senate would like to have a bill ready to present by the end of April.
Taking action is simple! Call your Senators and ask them to co-sponsor the Local Farms, Food & Jobs Act.
Executive Director, Frances Phillips, of the Haas Foundation's Creative Work Fund, provides a wonderful description of ROC's and the Creative Work Fund's collaboration on Real Rural.
I often hear that our food system is broken. I disagree. It is working the way it was intended, only better. In fact, it is working so well that it has itself become the problem.
After two years of conceptual designing and planning, the Food Commons has recently published its 2.0 version of its original and boldly ambitious concept paper that was first issued in March of 2010.
ROC has helped plant the seeds of progress across the state and nation. We are thankful to our network because we could not have done it without your support and online involvement.
How much food are you wasting during the holidays? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the US generates more than 34 million tons of food waste each year!
The Occupy movements around the country appear almost exclusively focused on Wall Street and Washington. However, the issues go way beyond money and politics to how we as a society of local and national identities come together in dialogue and action to re-engineer important systems, infrastructure and institutions to best serve the interests of the vast majority – the 99%.
