03/20/2026
Actual footage of me wondering where all my food baddies are. Gimme a 👩🏼🌾 if you care about how your food relates to the sociopolitical issues we face today. Environmental, Economic, Cultural, Political, you name it your food intersects with all of those.
My PieceMeal Community makes me feel so supported and seen.
When I say “I grew the carrots in your produce bag this week!” There is no better feeling and they make me feel seen in all the work we do.
When I have to buy imported veggies from a farm market instead of from the local farm it makes me wonder WHY. I know farmers are doing their very best, many of them aging and tired. But with droughts keeping yield rates low and potato scab creating a Spring shortage, you start to take a long look at what we’re doing here.
Our government doesn’t offer the right resources to build a resilient food supply.
The reason why we need gvt support is because much of the food in grocery stores has been filled with corn soy and wheat which are subsidized commodities. So whole healthy food is competing with cheap quick food, we need to level the playing field.
We need support for labor, for land access ESPECIALLY for indigenous cultural food access
We need more greenhouses to extend our growing seasons. We could have tomatoes all year around if there was more incentive but weather and energy costs just make heated greenhouses too expensive.
Speaking of incentive, we need motivation for younger farmers to get in the game.
Most of the people I know who started farming are doing it for the benefit of their community, to bring them purpose and to
help build a resilient food system that supplies healthy food. Because they’re food baddies and they get it, that if we don’t do it for ourselves it simply won’t happen.
Let’s not take for granted that local and fresh will always exist, because when you’ve seen what I’ve seen and heard what I’ve heard you do everything in your power to keep pushing forward and digging in and planting the seeds.
