Class Act
Weekly column that highlights innovative and interesting food and food education and advocacy programs around the world.
Chapel Hill Creamery: Class Act
This is third of four Class Acts where we highlight four classy acts in food production and sustainability in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. These four were part of a weekend-long, 40-farm Piedmont Farm tour sponsored by the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association as a way to learn more and celebrate the small family farms [...]
Boxcarr Farms: Class Act
This is the second of four Class Acts where we highlight four classy acts in food production and sustainability in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. These four were part of a weekend-long, 40-farm Piedmont Farm tour sponsored by the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association as a way to learn more and celebrate the small family [...]
Sunset Ridge Buffalo Farm: Class Act
For the next four Class Acts, we’re going to highlight four classy acts in food production and sustainability in the Piedmont region of North Carolina. These four were part of a weekend-long, 40-farm Piedmont Farm tour sponsored by the Carolina Farm Stewardship Association as a way to learn more and celebrate the small family farms [...]
Mmofra Urban Garden: Class Act
Located in Accra, Ghana, the Mmofra Foundation works to enrich the lives of children. Mmofra means “children” in Akan, one of the major languages spoken in Ghana. In addition to promoting creativity and language acquisition, Mmofra encourages children to learn about sustainability and nutrition through its living classroom in its organic urban garden. Owned and [...]
Kinderkookkafe, Amsterdam: Class Act
Kinderkookkafe, located in Amsterdam, is a place for children (and wish for adults, too). There are individual cooking classes. children’s parties, and a little restaurant. The great thing? Kids have to do all the cooking and serving! Yup, that includes some cleaning, “bar”tending, cashier-tending, and menu design. From learning how to use organic vegetables from [...]
Culture Kitchen SF: Class Act
Based in San Francisco, Culture Kitchen SF works to “spread culture through food.” By hiring immigrant cooking instructors, people can learn the “real deal” of cuisines ranging from Iraq, to the Ukraine, to Peru. Additionally, they have a wonderful recipe resource, a blog, and a subscription service to make the food in your kitchen. NPR [...]
Tsyunhehkwa: Class Act
Removed from New York to Wisconsin in the 1800s, the Oneida Nation of Wisconsin continues to “strengthen and protect [its] people, reclaim [its] land, and enhance the environment by exercising [their] sovereignty. Tsyunhehkwa, which loosely translates into “life sustenance” in the Oneida language, is the Nation’s community, cultural, and agricultural program. Located on 83-acres, its [...]
GreenHouse: Class Act
When one thinks of Rikers Island, one doesn’t always think of green gardens and local vegetables. GreenHouse seeks to change this by providing inmates with hands-on experience “designing, installing, and maintaining” the 2 1/2 acres of multi-use gardens, greenhouse, and gardening classrooms. About 125 inmates participate each year, gaining remedial and vocational training, such as [...]
Oaxaca Streetchildren Grassroots: Class Act
Oaxaca’s history and diverse cultures make it an extremely popular place in Mexico for outsiders to visit. Yet not all visitors are aware that 77% of the 3 million people who live there live in poverty. Many of the children sell trinkets or shine shoes for tourists to support their families. Based in Arkansas, Oaxaca [...]
Summer of Solutions: Class Act
I know what you did last summer. Or do you? Summer of Solutions is an organization in Hartford, Connecticut that trains young leaders between the ages of 15 and 30 to work in the community, which faces food injustice for 8 weeks during the summer. The goal is to “create self-sustaining, environmental, social justice, and [...]
