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In the News: Happy Earth Day Week! NYS SNAP Recipients Can Now Order On-Line! Grappling with Food Insecurity on College Campuses; Every Day Needs to be Earth Day, Opt Out Of Industrial Meat!

Posted on April 23, 2019

This Earth Day Week, Push Back on the Slashing of Our Environmental Programs! This Earth Day Week, POTUS continues to cut our clean energy programs, eliminating crucial climate change research, and slashing the EPA’s budget by a whopping 31%. What … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #access to basic nutrition, #access to safety net programs, #clean energy, #Climate Change, #donate, #Earth Day, #ecological footprint, #electronic benefit transfer cards, #emergency food pantries, #EndIndustrialMeat.org, #environmental consequences, #environmental programs, #factory farms, #federal food assistance, #food insecure, #food scarcity, #grassroots organizations, #Hunge, #income inequality, #industrial meat, #march, #protest, #public education, #SNAP, #Student Food Insecurity, #supplemental nutrition assistance program, #volunteer

Take Action! Get a Grant to Promote Health in Your School! Speak Out Against the Proposed Social Service Cuts!

Posted on March 18, 2019

I wanted to share some information with you, from an organization called, Action for Healthy Kids. They offer grants to schools and parents who want to work towards improving the health of their school community. By April 5, you can … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #Action for Healthy Kids, #Every Kid Healthy Week, #good nutrition, #healthy breakfast, #healthy lunch, #math, #Medicaid, #medicare, #nutrition, #physical activity, #school gardens, #school grants, #science, #SNAP, #Social Security, #supplemental nutrition assistance program, #teamwork

Join Your Local Food Policy Council; The Long Island Food Coalition Needs You!! #BreakFreeFromPlastic For Month of July

Posted on July 3, 2018

Are you a local food aficionado or just curious about how policy affects your local food systems? If so, then consider joining me in the Good Food movement by seeking out your local food policy council to understand and engage … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #agriculture, #break free from plastic, #fall, #land, #long island food conference, #nutrition, #policy council, #public health, #SNAP, #water supply

USDA Increasing Opportunities for Farmers Across the Country; Fight for 2018 Farm Bill: Still Delayed; Overlapping Communities in Rural America

Posted on March 20, 2018

Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) Applicant Webinars Press release from the Agricultural Marketing Service: On March 7, 2018, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) announced the availability of $27 million in grants to … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #2nd Annual Hudson Valley Farmhouse Ale Competition, #agriculture, #american agriculturis, #Civil Eats, #farm bill 2018, #Farmers Market and Local Food Promotion Program (FMLFPP) Applicant Webinars, #grow act, #SNAP

Eating Green in the Winter Looks Different than In the Summer; This Weekend is the NOFA-NY Conference! Amani Olugbala Joins Bhavani to Talk About Weaving Agriculture Into Her Music and Art

Posted on January 17, 2018

Hi Everyone, It’s been great coming back into the new year and jumping into a series of cooking classes for Winter. In the cold weather, we tend to crave more warming foods, more comfort foods, like soups, stews, and casseroles, … Read More

Posted in Eating Green with Bhavani Tagged with: #Amani Olugbala, #art, #cold weather, #colds, #flu, #food system, #garlic, #ginger, #health benefits, #immune system, #injustice, #medicinal, #music, #nofa, #nofa-ny, #One Wok, #organic food, #poem, #PRN, #Progressive Radio Network, #racism, #SNAP, #Soul Fire Farm, #storytelling, #Three Meals, #winter, #Winter Conference

Help Save the EPA; Protect the Hungry; Irma Floods Impacts Environment and Economy

Posted on September 10, 2017

Help save the EPA from Trump and his Big Oil cronies “Donald Trump is about to propose more massive cuts to the EPA. The cuts would gut water protections, support for state environmental programs, and the Superfund clean up … Read More

Posted in Take Action Tagged with: #benefits, #EPA, #food farm, #friends of the earth, #protect the hungry, #SNAP, #Superfund, #trump, #union of concerned scientists

Hello My Name is Microbiome; SNAP Cuts Affecting Americans; Victory for Standing Rock Sioux Tribe

Posted on July 18, 2017

Hello My Name is MicroBiome: How Bacteria is Life Taking the Time to Get To Know Your Micro-biome can be just as important if not more important to living healthfully as understanding what food you eat day to day, and/or where it … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #barack obama, #food, #gilibrand, #gut bacteria, #microbiome, #protect water, #senator us ny, #SNAP, #standing rock, #supplemental nutrition assistance program, #trump, #tufts university

California’s Win Against Glyphosate; Safer Sunscreen Starts This Summer; SNAP Cuts Could Worsen NY Lives; Arkansas Votes to Ban Weedkiller

Posted on July 10, 2017

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Win Against Glyphosate in California “Glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s widely used herbicide Roundup, was added on July 7th to California’s list of chemicals known to the state to cause cancer, according to a Reuters report Tuesday. This news comes after the company’s … Read More

Posted in In The News Tagged with: #arkansas, #california, #dicamba, #diy, #Environmental Working Group, #glyphosate, #healhty school food, #hunger solutions, #Monsanto, #new york, #nutrition assistance program, #SNAP, #sunscreen