Community Development

24Nov 2020

Racism. Say it.

November 24, 2020 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Economic Development, Food Systems, Justice, Latest News 1 Comment

by Holly Park This is part of a series of posts from participants in the Texas Local Food Anti-Racism training by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). Together we are creating an anti-racist food system in Texas. Racism. I wrote it. You read it. It is a nasty reality that we live with […]

16Nov 2020

When Partnerships Matter Most

November 16, 2020 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Farm to School, Institutions, Latest News 0 Comment

In the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic in the small town of Elgin, Texas, the Texas Center for Local Food (TCLF) teamed up with The Common Market Texas, and Elgin Independent School District (ISD) to distribute Farm Fresh Veggie Boxes to families in this town of 10,000 with a child poverty rate of 19%. With grant […]

04Nov 2020

Cities Are Where Things Get Done

November 4, 2020 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Economic Development 0 Comment

This short video from the Kauffman Foundation Mayors Roundtable highlights the importance of cities to local economies. sell your mayor on developing a local food economy and you’ve got your local champion!

16Oct 2020

Resources for Dismantling Racism

October 16, 2020 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Economic Development, Food Systems, Justice 0 Comment

This post is a living list of resources. Please use the comments below to add your resources and we’ll add them into the permanent post as we go. Reading list from GoodReads Training from the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). Community-Engaged Research Course is a class offered in 2019 as a pilot by […]

08Oct 2020

Anti-Racism Training Reframes Our Liberal Principles

October 8, 2020 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Economic Development, Food Systems, Justice, Latest News, Resilience, Teaching & Learning 0 Comment

by Adam Orman This is part of a series of posts from participants in the Texas Local Food Anti-Racism training by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). Together we are creating an anti-racist food system in Texas. This post is by Adam Orman, General Manager and Owner of L’Oca d’Oro restaurant in Austin, […]

03Oct 2020

Uprooting Racism in the Food System organized by Soul Fire Farm

October 3, 2020 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Economic Development, Food Systems, Justice, Latest News, Money, Resilience, Teaching & Learning 0 Comment

by Carolina Mueller The Texas Center for Local Food invited Carolina Mueller to share her impressions of the training in support of our collective work to create anti-racist food systems in Texas. We are grateful for her willingness to share. Carolina is a food systems practitioner, part-time farmer and full-time graduate student at the LBJ […]

22Sep 2020

Know Better, Do Better

September 22, 2020 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Economic Development, Food Systems, Justice, Latest News, Resilience, Teaching & Learning 0 Comment

by Alejandra Rodriguez Boughton This is part of a series of posts from participants in the Texas Local Food Anti-Racism training by the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ). Together we are creating an anti-racist food system in Texas. My name is Alejandra Rodriguez Boughton, I’m originally from Monterrey, Mexico, but I’ve called Austin […]

14Sep 2020

Black farmers’ markets work to “redesign the food system”

September 14, 2020 Susan Beckwith Business and Financial, Buying Food, Community Development, farmers market, Food Systems, Justice, Latest News 0 Comment

From our friends at The Counter, this excellent overview of the history of Black farmers and current actions to dismantle racism in our food system. Farmers market managers take note and count on us at the Texas Center for Local Food to support your shift to a more diverse customer base. “… the recent movement […]

28Aug 2020

Racism in our Food Systems

August 28, 2020 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Food Systems, Justice, Teaching & Learning 1 Comment

As our country reckons with our historic systemic and systematic racism, I want to share these links to posts by Chris Newman and Joel Salatin, both farmers in Virginia. I was out a bunch in late 2019 so I missed these at the time they were published. Some of the comments on Instagram are so […]

25Dec 2019

Hello 2020

December 25, 2019 Susan Beckwith Community Development, Farm to School, Institutions, Latest News 0 Comment

Here we go into a new decade and even amidst the tumult in our world, here at the Texas Center for Local Food, we find hope as we move forward. Sure there’s been some serious yuk this past year and we’ve also seen sprouts of new ideas and new collaborations that – if we nurture […]