Food Allies

The Food Allies formed in response to a genuine community interest in improving food, health & quality of life in our neighborhood. Email us to learn more: chph.foodallies @ gmail [dot] com

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Prospect Heights/Crown Heights 2nd Annual Health & Harvest Fair PARTICIPANTS

Health Corps, Cooking Demo

Fruit Kabobs, Natasha Eziquiel-Shiriro

Orange Pot Harvest Soup, Ana Medina

Mukti’s Kitchen, Healthy Indian Cooking

Juice Huggers

Just Food, CSA Smackdown

Crown Heights Farm Share

Brooklyn Botanic Gardens, Food Donations

Bushwick Campus Farm, EcoStation:NY, Food

Bianca Rivera, Diabetes Educator

Megan Romano, Nutritionist

NYC DOH & Health Bucks

Doula & Birthing Health, Jillian Buckley

DownState Medical, HIV Screening

Claudine Michaud, Mycology

Martha Oatis, Acupuncture & Herbs, flourishinggate.com

Mountain, Apocathary, ilovemountain.net

Third Root, Makeba Judge, Acupuncture & Herbs

Jessica Grotfeldt, Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine

Miss Severe, Movement & Personal Training

The Noble Touch, TheNobleTouch.com

ZUMBA with Bethina Sayegh Flores

Brooklyn Fit Lab

Pura Vida Urban Fitness

The SonnetMan

Precise Talent Over Hype

Mama Nature, Gus Guantlett

Food & Water Watch

NYC Dept of Sanitation, Bureau of Waste Prevention

Ban the Bag, Josh Feintuch

Bike Generated Power, Fields Harrington

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Health Fair planning meeting today!

Join us for our community health fair planning meeting tonight! We need your help getting the word out -- come pick up flyers.

Sunday, September 8th. Duryea Church on Underhill Ave and St. Johns. 5pm. If you have trouble finding us, just call 718-612- two one nine zero.

Or join our Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/chphfoodallies/

And join our event on Facebook to invite your friends!

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Calling all Crown Heights and Prospect Heights residents and community leaders! This year's Health & Harvest Fair is fast approaching -- and we need help getting the word out. If you can help us distribute and post flyers, or know of an organization that works the community, Please send an email to chph [dot] foodallies [at] gmail.com. Thank you! - Food Allies

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Save the date! The 2nd Annual Health and Harvest Fair will be taking place on Saturday, September 21st.

If you'd like to get involved, either as an organizer, a volunteer, or to share resources at the event, please send us an email at chph.foodallies at gmail dot com.

Our next planning meeting is scheduled for August 21st. Drop us a line for more details. Thanks!

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Community Food Map Update!

We are updating our neighborhood food map for reprint this September. If you or someone you know is involved in a food access project -- community garden, CSA, farmers market, food pantry, soup kitchen or other similar project -- please let us know and we'll make sure it's on the map.

Just email us at chph.foodallies at gmail dot com. Thanks!

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Opportunity & Call to Action: GMO Labeling

New York State’s GMO Labeling Bill, A3525-A, is getting a public hearing on July 30, 2013, by the Assembly Committee on Consumer Affairs and Protection. Testimony is by invitation only but ANYONE CAN ATTEND, so if you'd like to make a stand for GMO labeling, arrange your schedule so you can be there to support GMO labeling legislation in NYS!

A huge turnout of labeling advocates will show this committee – who will decide the fate of bill A3525-A – how much we care about this issue! 



Please share this information with every New Yorker you know who eats food – the issue of GMOs affects them whether they’re aware of it or not. Help make them aware and encourage them to make the trip with you on July 30th.



Date: July 30th, 2013


Time: 10:00 am


Location: East Dining Room, Lehman College, 250 Bedford Park Blvd West, Bronx, NY


More info: http://assembly.state.ny.us/leg/?sh=he



Lehman College is accessible by public transportation and there is parking on site, too. We don’t yet know the seating capacity of the East Dining Room but let’s turn this into a STANDING ROOM ONLY event!

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The Brooklyn Movement Center, a community organizing group located in Bed-Stuy, is holding a "Grub Party" this weekend. The Grub Parties are organized to start conversations around an issue connected to food that impacts community members of Central Brooklyn.

The second Grub Party will be on July 28 from 3 pm - 5 pm and focus on discussing the connections between food justice to criminal justice work.

RSVP by emailing [email protected] or call 718-771-7000 And let them know what you’re bringing!

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"Our fear is that the agency's (UN Food and Agriculture Organization) current framing could encourage both development agencies and the public to believe that "business as usual" is working, when it is not. So we hope our perspectives help spur those both within and outside the FAO to better convey the much more sobering--but richly lesson-filled--reality of the ongoing tragedy of hunger amid plenty."

Frances Moore Lappe and Anna Lappe, "Who's Hungry Now?",

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/frances-moore-lappe-and-anna-lappe/whos-hungry-now-the-answe_b_3599248.html

Here is a great infographic on world hunger.

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Photos from this past Saturday’s screening of Who Controls Your Food? Stories from Venezuela to Brooklyn, hosted by 2013 Change by Us NYC grant recipient Crown Heights-Prospect Heights Food Allies.  Through the documentary and following discussion, residents learned about food justice and how to take more ownership of their food supply by participating in community gardens, joining local farm shares, or growing food at home.

(Photo credit: Ben Cherner)

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CROWN HEIGHTS FARMERS MARKET organized by Seeds in the Middle

Accepting EBT/SNAP, FMNP, and Health Bucks

Every Thursday until November 14th

1pm - 7pm at Hamilton Metz Park

  Want to vend? Email: [email protected]

More info on Seeds in the Middle: [email protected]

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6/21/2013

Public and private partners are collaborating in response to this week’s die off of bees in Wilsonville by taking measures to prevent further insect loss. Bee-proof netting is being placed on 55 European linden trees in the Target parking lot of Argyle Square at the site where an estimated 25,000 bumblebees were found dead or dying this week. Officials hope the netting will successfully keep additional bees away from blooms that have been attracting the pollinators. The Oregon Department of Agriculture, City of Wilsonville, City of Sherwood, Xerces Society, and Valent  USA have been working together on prevention and recovery efforts in the wake of the bee death discovery. Work crews are expected to complete the placement of nets on the trees as soon as possible. Meanwhile, ODA has confirmed that the bee deaths are directly related to a pesticide application on the linden trees conducted last Saturday, June 15 to control aphids. The pesticide product Safari was used in that application. Safari, with its active ingredient dinotefuran, is part of a group of insecticides known as neonicotinoids. Valent USA is the distributor of Safari. ODA collected samples earlier this week of bees and foliage in the area, and conducted laboratory analysis. ODA continues its active investigation of the incident to determine if the pesticide application was in violation of state and federal pesticide regulations.

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7 Dodgy Food Practices Banned in Europe But Just Fine Here

We've got it all here in the land of the free, from endocrine-disrupting herbicides to stress-causing feed additives.

From Tom Philpott at Mother Jones

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How the Trans-Pacific Partnership Will Impact our Global Food System

"The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a trade agreement under secret negotiation by by Australia, Brunei, Chile, Canada, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam. Japan will join at the next meeting).

Access to food is a basic human right. Instead, TPP expands the notion that food is just another commodity subject to economic speculation and exploitation solely to increase the profits of multinational corporations. TPP promotes export-oriented food production, its passage will increase global hunger and malnutrition, alienate millions from their productive assets and resources; land, water, fish, seeds, technology and generations of cultural knowledge.

In order to guarantee the independence and food sovereignty of all of the world’s peoples, it is essential that food is produced though diversified, community based production systems. Food sovereignty is the right of peoples to control their own food and agriculture; to protect and regulate domestic agricultural production and trade in order to achieve sustainable development objectives; to determine the extent to which they want to be self reliant; to restrict the dumping of agricultural products in their markets, and; to guarantee local fisheries-based communities the right to manage their aquatic resources.

A TPP trade agreement will impact all levels of the food system, from the growers, to the markets distributing the food; from the quality of the food available to consumers, to the ability of governments to protect and be held accountable to their people. The TPP is designed to help agribusiness get bigger and more powerful in their drive to consolidate ownership of the food system -- from seed to shelf. The TPP will speed up the global race to the bottom in terms of farm prices, workers' wages, environmental standards and human rights."

Read more here:

Mark Dunlea, Jim Goodman, Brian Tokar ~ Ecology Branch

http://greenshadowcabinet.us/statements/control-over-food-stake-tpp

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Support the Dean Street Farmers Market -- every Saturday starting June 29th, 8am-3p. Location is on Dean Street (bet. Bedford Ave. and Franklin Ave.) in front of Walt L. Shamel Community Garden.

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August 2013 Delegation to Venezuela: The Revolution Continues!

http://revolucionalimentaria.wordpress.com/2013/01/24/august-2013-delegation-to-venezuela-food-sovereignty-human-rights-and-community-power/

Come learn, connect, and show your solidarity at this critical moment for the Venezuelan process.

Through direct exchanges with community organizations, social movements, and political leaders, we will explore various areas of social transformation, including food sovereignty, education, healthcare, media, and direct citizen participation in the political process. There will also be trips to beaches, parks, and other sites of interest.

Follow the link for more details!

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Who Controls Your Food?

"Who Controls Your Food? Stories from Venezuela to Brooklyn"

Saturday, June 15th, 3:30pm - 6pm. LaunchPad, 721 Franklin Avenue, Brooklyn, NY Welcome to the Brooklyn food movement: we shop locally, grow vegetables, raise chickens, and pickle everything. As we strive to take control of our food, how do these efforts fit into the global movement to reclaim the right to a healthy and sustainable food supply? What is the relationship between food justice and sovereignty in Venezuela and the United States? Join us for a screening of the award-winning film "Growing Change," which explores Venezuela's grassroots food justice movement, followed by a discussion featuring Venezuelan activist William Camacaro, co-founder of the Alberto Lovera Bolivarian Circle of New York; Tristan Quinn-Thibodeau, manager of WhyHunger’s Global Movements Program and active member of the US Food Sovereignty Alliance; and, Eric-Michael Rodriguez, educator, curator and farm manager at Weeksville Heritage Center in Brooklyn, NY.

Join us for free food, drinks and a raffle with prizes from local businesses before the film! RSVP suggested: [email protected] Website: foodallies.tumblr.com