The manager of Southside Community Farm will discuss modern food justice initiatives in a Dec. 11 virtual conversation hosted by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
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The manager of Southside Community Farm will discuss modern food justice initiatives in a Dec. 11 virtual conversation hosted by Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center.
“In a time when local food is essential, a discussion about growing food or paving the land for a playground is senseless.”
A March 27 proposal to the board of commissioners of the Housing Authority of the City of Asheville called for the demolition of Southside Community Farm to make way for a $200,000 outdoor youth play area. Hundreds of community members showed up to the April board meeting to voice their dissent.
“We must address classist and racist systems and structures through policy change, food sovereignty and food justice.”
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