Food & Faith: A Values-Based Approach for Community Food Security
Angela Smith, Baltimore Food & Faith Project
Pastor Heber Brown III, Pleasant Hope Baptist Church
Jenny Holmes, Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
Cassi Johnson, Community Food Advocates
Five faith-based organizations and faith communities representing different traditions will share their work to support local farmers, develop community gardens, and increase healthy food accessibility. Attendees will be asked to share best practices from their own faith-based efforts and participate in structured small group discussions, each led by a panelist.
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Awareness raising presentation and workshop on the way social and environmental degradation will impact the tourism industry at large, and people who will work in tourism (the audience) in particular.
Group exercises articulated around the concept of impact of key department on certain aspect of hotel operations (energy, water, waste, chemicals, social/environmental, food,..), ways to mitigate it, and how to go from idea to implementation by using SMART tool (action plan).
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This unit consists of 1000+ slide PowerPoint presentation, assessment, and class notes that are the road map for an exciting and interactive unit full of lab activities, class notes, discussion questions, project ideas, assessments, modified assessment, class notes, PowerPoint Review Games, answer Keys, video links, and much more (Teaching duration = 3+ Weeks) Everything the unit is editable and can be changed to fit any curriculum or time requirement.
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Innovative Solution to Stop the PollutionDeepi Makwana
Biomass briquetting plant can converts all agro forestry waste or industrial waste (devastate material) into useful biomass briquettes which is known as white coal because on burning it does not create pollution.
Awareness raising presentation and workshop on the way social and environmental degradation will impact the tourism industry at large, and people who will work in tourism (the audience) in particular.
Group exercises articulated around the concept of impact of key department on certain aspect of hotel operations (energy, water, waste, chemicals, social/environmental, food,..), ways to mitigate it, and how to go from idea to implementation by using SMART tool (action plan).
Consumerism is a social and economic order that is based on the systematic creation and fostering of a desire to purchase goods and services in ever greater amounts.
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Food & Faith: A Values-Based Approach for Community Food Security
1. Food & Faith: A Values-Based
Approach for Community
Food Security
Pleasant Hope Baptist Church
A pretty exciting
greenhouse for God
2. Agenda
4:15 Welcome and Introductions
4:20 Presentations by Panelists
5:05 Q & A
5:20 Small Group Discussions
5:35 Return to Large Group and Last
Thoughts
4. Story of Pleasant Hope
• Founded in 1933 after two historic African American
congregations merged in North Baltimore City
• Today the congregation of Pleasant Hope is made up of
roughly 200 individuals
• Economic range from below the poverty line to the working
poor with some financially stable "middle class" families
• The largest age group of the congregation is 60 years and
older. The fastest growing group is the 19 to 25 year olds.
• Being a majority elderly congregation means, in part, a
greater number of health challenges
5. What Can We Do?
• Promote culturally
appropriate, incremental
lifestyle changes
• Church theme for 2010 is
"Sustainability"
• This year, we've
considered what it means
to be holistically healthy -
mind, body, and spirit
• Leadership had to lead the
way if it was to take root in
the congregation
27. Community Food Security is…Community Food Security is…
… … a condition in which all community a condition in which all community
residents obtain a safe, culturally residents obtain a safe, culturally
acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet acceptable, nutritionally adequate diet
through a sustainable food system that through a sustainable food system that
maximizes community self-reliance and maximizes community self-reliance and
social justice" (Hamm, 2001)social justice" (Hamm, 2001)
28. In Baltimore…In Baltimore…
CLF Community Food Assessment in SW
Baltimore
• 76% - NO fruit for sale
• 69% - NO vegetables for
sale
• 35% - “sometimes” were
unable to buy healthy food
due to lack of resources
• 17% - “often” were unable to
buy healthy food due to
lack of resources
.
29. Episcopal Church of the Messiah
Brown
Memorial-
Park Avenue
St. Pius X Roman
Catholic Church
Congregation SupportedCongregation Supported
Agriculture (CSA)Agriculture (CSA)
36. Community Food
Advocates
• Community Food Advocates mission is to end hunger and create a healthy,
just, and sustainable food system.
• We are a movement of farmers, parents, students, persons of faith,
community gardeners, and health advocates united by a commitment to the
idea that all members of our community should have access to food grown
in a way that promotes the health of people, planet, and community.
37. Re/Storing Nashville
• Restoring Nashville is a
faith-based movement
for food justice in
Nashville, advocating for
increased access to
affordable healthy food
for all of Nashville.
38. What is a food
desert?
• A food desert is a neighborhood
that has little or no access to
nutritious foods needed to
maintain a healthy diet.
• While lacking full-service grocery
stores, food deserts have a
surplus of convenience stores
and fast food restaurants.
• More than 23 million Americans,
including 6.5 million children, live
in urban and rural
neighborhoods that are more
than a mile from a supermarket.
42. Transportation
Access• High prices, long trips, infrequent service and carrying purchases home
from the store are all barriers for food desert residents.
• Taxis often charge between $10 - $40 per trip.
43. What do we want?
• Change the
conversation
•Policy change: Tax
and Zoning Incentives
• Direct Public
Transportation Access
46. Why work with the
faith community?
• Leveraging existing partnerships with the faith
community
• Recognizing critical role of faith community in
social movements
• Building on health ministries
• Shifting food work from charity to justice
47. Challenges
• Saturation of issues
• Balancing short-term versus long-term outcomes
• Multi-faith versus inter-faith
48. THANK YOU!
• Cassi Johnson, Executive Director
• Community Food Advocates
• www.communityfoodadvocates.org
• 615-385-2286
50. Mission Statement
To empower faith communities, farmers and
neighborhoods to build rural-urban
alliances and create innovative
partnerships for just and sustainable food
systems that promote community health.
51. Food & Faith-The
Connections
• Food is a profoundly spiritual and ethical
concern.
• Communities of faith can play a vital role
in creating a just and sustainable food
system.
52. Interfaith Food and Farms
Partnership Projects
• Farm to Congregation Partnerships
• Community Kitchens
• Cooking and Food Preservation Classes
• Micro-enterprise
• Community Gardens
• Congregational Wellness Project
• That’s My Farmer! FM Coupon Project
54. Farm Stands
• Farmer sells goods in a faith community
setting.
• Generally before or after the service.
55. Community Supported
Agriculture (CSA)
• Participants pay an upfront cost for a weekly
delivery of produce.
• Faith communities can serve as a weekly drop
off site for produce.
56. Buying Club
• Combining collective purchasing power
to get wholesale prices for local produce.
58. Benefits of Farm to
Congregation Partnerships
• New access points for fresh, local food.
• Greater understanding of the challenges that
farmers face.
• Opportunity to deepen understanding of
relationship to the earth and of justice issues.
• Opportunity to try new foods.
• Community building.
• Opportunity to learn about another culture.
• New marketing opportunity for farmers.
59. Cooking Classes
• We partner with community organizations
and congregations to offer cooking
classes for low-income families and
individuals.
62. Congregational Wellness Project
• Congregational Health Index—to assess where
changes can be made in congregation environment
and practices to support health.
• Help congregations create lasting changes to
improve health and reduce childhood obesity.
• Moving from congregation to the community to
advocate for policy change together.
• Resources at www.faithandwellness.org
63. Community Gardens
• Underutilized land put to
use by the community
• Community-building space,’
espec for recent immigrants
• Food education centers
64. That’s My Farmer FM Coupon
Program
• Started in 2005 in one Corvallis congregation
• IFFP expanded to multiple congregations in
2006 with USDA grant.
• Purpose: Support local farmers and build
relationships with them, improve food access,
increase awareness/support for farmers’ market
• Spun off in 2008. Provide AmeriCorps member.
• Congregation and community members buy the
$20 booklets with 10% going to fund to purchase
booklets for people with low-incomes.
65. Challenges
• Congregations of different faiths operate very
differently. Be a cultural anthropologist.
• Congregations can take a long time to make
decisions, need to be very patient.
• May already have a lot of their plates.
• Getting the whole congregation behind it.
• Volunteers can get burned out if you don’t
constantly recruit new folks to share in the work.
• Many don’t understand the difference between
charitable food ministry and community food sec.
66. Just a Few Learnings
• It’s important to bring resources to the table
(staff, funds, etc)-make it a mutually
beneficial relationship.
• Find an internal champion for the project,
this can really help with cautious trustees.
• A Request for Proposal (RFP) for a project
can help congregations be more intentional
and committed and can lead to greater
cooperation among congregations.
67. Reaching out to Congregations
• Identify congregations in the neighborhood or
serving the demographic that you want to serve.
• Approach your local interfaith or ecumenical
organizations, or ministerial assoc. Is there a
community ministry organization already doing
related work on food?
• Research who is the best person, or committee
in the congregation to approach first. Be aware
that congregations are very different in how
leadership works and decisions are made.
• Be respectful at all times.
68. Reaching out to congregations
• Find the right entry point for the congregation.
What are their goals for outreach, improving
health, hunger, social justice, and education?
• Identify and build on assets-land, kitchens, food
and cultural knowledge, people with skills and
community leadership and influence.
• What does the congregation’s denomination or
teachings say about food and justice?
• What are the food traditions of congregation?
• Celebrate together through food to build
relationships. Many congregations know how to
do this well!
My name is Jenny Holmes and I serve as the Environmental Ministries Director at Ecumenical Ministries of Oregon
IFFP is a multi-faceted program! Here s our mission statement
Food is a way to bring people together. Many of our family and religious celebrations involve breaking bread together. Communities of faith are generally concerned about social justice issues and around the issue of food this can include ensuring everyone has access to healthy food and that farm workers receive fair wages for their work and have good working conditions.
This is the menu of options for that communities to engage in building and bringing more justice and health to the local food system. IFFP has been documenting what we have been doing and creating handbooks, factsheets and workshops to help congregations in others areas of our state, and nationally, benefit from what we have learned so they can use and adapt these ideas to their unique situations.
These are the types of partnerships IFFP has worked on developing between congregations and farmers. We work mostly with immigrant and new farmers to create these partnerships.
One type of model that has been used successfully in Portland is the Farm Stand. This is where a farmer sells good such as flowers or produce in a faith community setting. The farm stand generally takes place before or after the service. It can be very rewarding to practice hospitality by opening up the farm stand to the surrounding community as well. We have one church in Portland that has their farmer table outside so people walking by are able to see it and stop by to shop.
Community Supported Agriculture is a set up that has been gaining more and more popularity. The way a CSA works is the customer pays for a share at the beginning of the season and a box of produce is delivered each week to a set location, such as a faith community. The members of the csa pick up their produce for the week. By paying upfront the customer shares in the risk of farming and the farmer is given a guaranteed income for the work they are doing.
A buying club, at its least formal, may be a group of neighbors or friends buying half a pig or cow to divide among their freezers, or several flats of fruit for jam. What I’ll be talking about today is a regular delivery of produce from a local farmer to a central location. Members place orders and pay in advance and pick up what they ordered the same day it is delivered. We now have buying clubs in both Portland and Corvallis. People like being able to order as much or as little as they want.
Our buying club in Portland is at Holy Redeemer (Rosa Parks and Vancouver) and is supported by a number of congregations in NE Portland. It is great to see a diverse group of people come together to purchase healthy, local food.
Introducing the farmer to the congregation
Signs in different languages
Farm tours
In order to make the program successful you will want to continue to let your congregation know what is happening, perhaps you will need to educate about specific vegetables that the farmer is bring but folks don’t know what to do with them.
For the farmer table tracking the number of customers and the farmer’s sales is important to evaluating the success at the end of the season.
Special events are important to maintain interest. You might think about having a cooking class, a potluck or visiting the farm.
You all know these things, but here’s a short list of benefits we see in operating these projects.
Often congregational kitchens are underused.
Often one of the barriers that people face when trying to eat healthy is not having the skills needed to prepare healthy meals we try to not only offer access to fresh produce but also give people the skills they need to make meals.
In Corvallis we have been able to offer a number of canning classes at minimal cost. Teaching people how to preserve produce.
New resource coming out-Creating Opportunity Through Micro-Enterprise, Faith Kitchens as Micro Enterprise Incubators- In Corvallis FUMC has set up a micro-enterprise program where low-income individuals who are starting up small food related businesses are able to use the church kitchen at a minimal cost to do food preparation.
Holy Redeemer, Kenilworth Presbyterian, St. Andrews Lutheran
Started a community garden in Corvallis and continue to work with population that serve the Latino population
Sometimes congregations are the best place to reach a specific demographic in an area because the congregation is a hub for not only workship but for social and cultural life and many other things.
Don’t forget to celebrate and appreciate the relationships.