The Praxis Project convened 18 BIPOC-led base-building and power-building organizations from across the United States that steward community gardens or urban farms for three virtual learning circles in early 2022. The goal of the Learning Circles was to better understand the functions of these spaces, how they contribute to building community power, to describe a community- centered vision for the future of equitable and just food systems, and how this critical work to build power while feeding our communities can be better supported.
During this webinar we will hear from participants of the Community Gardens and Urban Farms Learning Circle about their experience participating in the learning circle, their hopes, and opportunities for commitment to community gardens and urban farms. This webinar is a complement to the brief, "From Food Justice to Liberation: Building Community Power through Community Gardens & Urban Farms."
Join this webinar to discuss:
Our virtual Learning Circle process on Community - Gardens and Urban Farms
Examples from the field: Daryl Lucero from Pueblo Resurgents and more to be announced soon!
Recommendations and reflections for philanthropy, institutional allies, and community to consider as we commit to supporting community gardens and urban farms.
Speakers:
Sergio Ruiz
Sergio Ruiz is part of the food justice team in LVEJO. Being part of the response to our community’s food insecurity, we bring awareness to how we have the right to grow, eat, and sell healthy foods. Bringing food into our community that is culturally appropriate, fresh, local, and grown with full care for our workers, animals, and land. We strongly believe in bringing new business opportunities, healthier lives (mentally / physically / spiritually), and proper respect to our community.
Daryl (Isleta Pueblo)
Daryl (Isleta Pueblo) has been coordinating community-based projects in their own community of Isleta Pueblo since 2011. Working from a place that centers D’ai relationality, Daryl focuses on facilitating spaces for learning, authentic connecting, and self-agency via Pueblo homelands. Daryl is responsible for the administration of Pueblo Resurgents as well as growing food. Daryl is currently in the process of building a model for sustainable housing.
Eloísa
Eloísa is an award-winning policy advocate, liberation and food activist, educator, and artist. Her path toward activism and Veganism started early in life. She was raised by centenarians who lived off the land, taught her to be self-sustainable, and passed down much ancestral knowledge to her. This shaped her views of justice and empathy for all Beings, protection of our sacred home, and the belief in the healing power of plants, sharing, and community.
As an AfroIndigeous Latina, she approaches liberation praxis and Veganism with an anti-colonial framework to raise awareness of how Western colonization has and continues to affect the plight of human and beyond-human persons. And how it has changed the food system and our relationship with each other and the natural world.
Through her role as Executive Director at Chilis on Wheels, she works to reclaim public spaces and make Veganism accessible to communities in need through direct food relief, policy, education, and mentorship. In addition, Eloísa works with various coalitions and organizations as an advisor to develop community-informed strategies and policies to transcend poverty, mitigate climate breakdown, and transform our food system.
She is the founder of Vegan Activist Alliance, a systems change-focused, community-driven, anti-speciesist, anti-colonial organization founded on the belief that all Beings have a natural right to their autonomy and to live free from oppression regardless of species.
Cost: Free
This webinar was hosted and recorded on Tuesday, November 15, 2022. View the recording below.
Centering Community in Public Health Webinars: Praxis is in a unique position to build bridges between community organizers and traditional public health institutions. Below includes our 2020 webinars designed for local health departments, public health collaboratives and other agencies interested in increasing community-centered health equity and justice; we offer and provide additional webinars and trainings tailored to the needs of our partners upon request.