YOUNG FARMER NETWORK

+ farmers + food + community + justice +

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

More ag narratives that root work in histories of resilience, and take into account displacement, violence, & labor https://t.co/2VszhRDu9G

[Civil Eats @CivilEats]

Young Farmers Are Aiming to Change the Face of Local Farming https://t.co/C9aQOmf8mJ @NatureAsMeasure

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

"Want less. Consume less. Live simply as an act of solidarity."

Smita Narula

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

Smita Narula says RIGHT TO FOOD is a legal & activist tool: "a counter narrative to the market and profit driven paradigm." #justfood16

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

Savi Horne at #JustFood16: "Lack of access to land, and structural racism, are thwarting new agrarians." Truth.

[Food Solutions New England @FoodSolutionsNE]

Farmers! Take @Farm2Inst 2016 Producer Survey for a chance to win $100 giftcard https://t.co/ka3pbP6o3G @RhodyAg @Mainefarms @MAFarmBureau

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

Glad to be at the RI Women in Agriculture conference today, mostly because we're glad to be RI women farmers

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

+stemming from the plantation?"

Margaret Marietta Ramírez, "The Elusive Inclusive: Black Food Geographies and Racialized Food Spaces"

🔥

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

+Is the form of "justice"that food and other social justice activists practice simply a politics of inclusion that upholds power asymmetries

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

+born from the plantation political economy--a capitalist structure fueled by anti-black violence and oppression.+

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

"The American socio-political system and the very conceptions of freedom and justice that this system is founded upon were+

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

+in the violent structures, processes and ideologies that stem from the plantation."

- Margaret Marietta Ramírez, "The Elusive Inclusive"

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

"Contextualizing the plantation complex in food justice work provides a deeper understanding of how contemporary violence is entangled+

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

GRATITUDE to those who facilitated conversations on race, coops, advocacy, just food systems. Thanks for showing up. https://t.co/XNgYOmwPJ9

[NEFU @NewEnglandFU]

@_fsne Northeast New Farmer Gathering blog: https://t.co/k63buceNvZ Thanks @NYFCNYFC @RhodyAg @BeginningFarmer @NewFarmersCT HarvardFood Lit

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

@RhodyAg go to https://t.co/DkYjhi497y for the schedule of workshops from anti-racism training to ag policy and cooperatives. WOW so excited

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

In Greenfield, MA for our first regional new farmer gathering!!! 4 Court Square, 9:30 am - 8:30 pm

[Food Solutions New England @FoodSolutionsNE]

Northeast New Farmer Winter Gathering 12/12 https://t.co/DUZoyqGjYG @NYFCNYFC @bfnMass @NewEnglandFU @RhodyAg @CTFarmlandTrust @VTNewFarmer

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

Wow farms are exempt from labor laws? It's legal to fire farm workers for wearing UFW pin (except in CA bc #CESARCHAVEZ #DOLORESHUERTA)

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

Roman Pinal of @UFWupdates dropping knowledge at @NYFCNYFC convergence: "Empowered Workers = Protected Consumers"

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

About to spill the beans about LASA to state organizers from across the USA hehe @RIFPC @RhodeIslandDEM @NYFCNYFC fund young farmers! :):):)

[YOUNG FARMER NETWORK @RhodyAg]

Encouraged to hear organizers everywhere working on barriers to entry through lenses that include race, gender, identity, and class