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Domingo Medina with Peels On Wheels.
What is sustainability? The answer will depend on whom you ask. For proponents of local food systems here in New Haven, sustainability is a matter of making food security environmentally conscientious, economically viable, and health conscious. It can also be used to strengthen community ties.
In the following radio story, you’ll hear from three individuals on how the programs they represent are trying to make New Haven residents food sustainable. Domingo Medina will take us to the farm and inform us on how Peels and Wheels Composting makes you rethink where to throw out your apple core. Jacqueline Maisonpierre will pot tomato plants and explain how New Haven Farms uses urban agriculture to promote community health. Amelia Reese Masterson will buy some produce and elaborate on how CitySeed organizes farmers’ markets to increase food access for the food insecure.
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As a believer is the accurate use of language, it's time to stop the obfuscation around race and economic status.
No more using "food insecure" for hungry or "inner city" for both people of color and/ or poor.<br /> There is no shame in being hungry or poor, especially if you have experienced discrimination.<br /> It is the ultimate discrimination to erase both the poor and people of color.<br /> No more euphamisms or I'll set the word police on you!