Radical Nourishment

Rot and Renewal

What happens to the foods that we don’t eat? Composting is a vital part of our food cycles, but it's so much more than recycling our food scraps. This episode takes us on a journey through New York City to explore how this age-old practice is thriving in even the densest of urban spaces, while uncovering how composting can hold the key to food sovereignty for so many. More about Earth Matter @ https://earthmatter.org/ --- Learn more about Food Culture Collective @ https://foodculture.org and HEAL Food Alliance @ https://healfoodalliance.org Take action with HEAL on the U.S. Farm Bill: https://healfoodalliance.org/farmbill/

Other Futures Are Possible

In the imaginations of some folks, movements towards food sovereignty live primarily in idyllic community gardens, small-scale organic farms, local farmers’ markets, and farm-to-table restaurants. But the work of sovereignty lives within spaces of deeper complexity – spaces woven together by the seeds of joys, suffering, commitments, creativity, and resilience. Derrick McDonald [https://www.hackerarchitects.com/derrick-mcdonald] and Shephali Patel call in the stories and voices that remind us that sovereignty lives in our past, present, and futures.  --- Learn more and support Black Star Farmers @ blackstarfarmers.org [http://blackstarfarmers.org/] --- Learn more about Food Culture Collective @ https://foodculture.org and HEAL Food Alliance @ https://healfoodalliance.org Take action with HEAL on the U.S. Farm Bill: https://healfoodalliance.org/farmbill/ --- * Derrick McDonald:  https://www.hackerarchitects.com/derrick-mcdonald [https://www.hackerarchitects.com/derrick-mcdonald] * StoryMap [https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/eb09bbc9edb147a09f629c96d09501c7] of the initial seeding of Black Lives Memorial Garden in Cal Anderson  * Coverage on 2021 Black Lives Matter protests and CHOP/CHAZ:  * https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/seattle_activists_create_autonomous_zone_near [https://www.democracynow.org/2020/6/11/seattle_activists_create_autonomous_zone_near] * https://crosscut.com/focus/2020/11/seattles-cal-anderson-park-microcosm-national-upheaval [https://crosscut.com/focus/2020/11/seattles-cal-anderson-park-microcosm-national-upheaval] * Watch the documentary “As Long as the Rivers Run” [https://youtu.be/lN46NWkEFow?feature=shared] to learn about Bernie Whitebear and a legacy of indigenous land and food sovereignty movements in the Pacific Northwest * Overview of Daybreak Star and the Fort Lawton occupation:  https://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/online-exhibits/daybreak-star-indian-cultural-center [https://www.seattle.gov/cityarchives/exhibits-and-education/online-exhibits/daybreak-star-indian-cultural-center] * Omari Garrett and the occupation of the Colman School * Overview:  https://www.historylink.org/File/8602 [https://www.historylink.org/File/8602] * A complex history:   * https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2008/12/1008-feat-divided [https://www.seattlemet.com/arts-and-culture/2008/12/1008-feat-divided] * https://africanamericanheritagemuseumandculturalcenter.org/synopsis/ [https://africanamericanheritagemuseumandculturalcenter.org/synopsis/] * Stay connected with Shephali at shephali.earth [http://shephali.earth/] Recommended Reading List inspired by Derrick * Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity [https://www.dukeupress.edu/spill] by Alexis Pauline Gumbs * Woman on the Edge of Time [https://margepiercy.com/woman-on-the-edge-of-time] by Marge Piercy * Parable of the Sower [https://www.octaviabutler.com/parableseries] by Octavia Butler * Kindred [https://www.octaviabutler.com/kindred] by Octavia Butler * The Left Hand of Darkness [https://www.ursulakleguin.com/left-hand-darkness] by Ursula K. Le Guin * Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene [https://www.dukeupress.edu/staying-with-the-trouble] by Donna J. Haraway

Growing Community From Compost

For the folks behind BK Rot [https://www.bkrot.org/], showing love to their community looks a lot like piles of old orange peels, used coffee grounds, and last week's leftovers — in other words, it looks like compost. BK Rot is New York City's first bike-powered composting and hauling service, run almost entirely by youth of color. It was created in response to the city's failure to bring curbside composting services to their neighborhoods — and to this day, the group plays a key part in their local food cycles. --- Learn more about Food Culture Collective @ https://foodculture.org and HEAL Food Alliance @ https://healfoodalliance.org Take action with HEAL on the U.S. Farm Bill: https://healfoodalliance.org/farmbill/ ---

A Lesson From the Leaves

The air has grown cooler, and the leaves are falling from the trees. We are in the thick of fall, which also means the thick of transformation. I’ve always heard that grief is something you grow through, so I sat with the soil and mirrored the earth's cycles. I sat with the trees, the falling leaves, and the wind to help me remember. That endings are endings, but they can also seed new beginnings. --- Learn more about Food Culture Collective @ https://foodculture.org and HEAL Food Alliance @ https://healfoodalliance.org Take action with HEAL on the U.S. Farm Bill: https://healfoodalliance.org/farmbill/

The Rivers Running Through Us

The artists, musicians, and water protectors of South Seattle challenge flawed concepts of environmentalism by showing us that water is not a resource; but a sacred force that is inseparable from what it means to be a human being. Protecting our rivers and upholding water sovereignty is always a cultural and relational act - one that is a co-creation between the humans and the waters themselves. The Duwamish River invites us to take this journey back to ourselves. --- Learn more about Food Culture Collective @ https://foodculture.org and HEAL Food Alliance @ https://healfoodalliance.org Take action with HEAL on the U.S. Farm Bill: https://healfoodalliance.org/farmbill/ --- * Simon Wolf, poet   * Website:  https://www.simonwolf.xyz/ [https://www.simonwolf.xyz/] * Music for Simon’s poetry by Sendai Mike [https://www.sendaimike.com/] * Arturo Rodriguez, musician * Website and Classes:  https://arturorodriguez.com/ [https://arturorodriguez.com/] * Stay in touch:  https://www.facebook.com/RodriguezReneArturo [https://www.facebook.com/RodriguezReneArturo] * Rainier Valley Water Resiliency Course:  https://blackstarfarmers.org/waterresiliency [https://blackstarfarmers.org/waterresiliency] * Dynamic Waters:  https://www.dynamicwaters.net/ [https://www.dynamicwaters.net/] * Support the Duwamish River Community Coalition [https://www.drcc.org/health-equity]’s (DRCC) Environmental & Health Justice work: https://www.drcc.org/donate [https://www.drcc.org/donate] * Stay connected with Shephali at shephali.earth [http://shephali.earth/]   Story Elements * The Duwamish and Coast Salish peoples * https://www.duwamishtribe.org/history [https://www.duwamishtribe.org/history] * https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/culture/contemporary-culture/coast-salish-art/coast-salish-people [https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/culture/contemporary-culture/coast-salish-art/coast-salish-people] * The Waterlines Project [https://www.burkemuseum.org/collections-and-research/culture/archaeology/waterlines-project] identifies landscape and water entities in the Lushootseed language – and illustrates how Seattle is one of the most dramatically engineered cities in the U.S.   * Waterlines Map:  https://www.burkemuseum.org/static/waterlines/project_map.html [https://www.burkemuseum.org/static/waterlines/project_map.html] * Cedar River Watershed Map:  https://your.kingcounty.gov/dnrp/library/water-and-land/watersheds/cedar-river-lake-wa/watershed-map.pdf [https://your.kingcounty.gov/dnrp/library/water-and-land/watersheds/cedar-river-lake-wa/watershed-map.pdf] * Introduction to Watershed Terminology [https://kingcounty.gov/en/legacy/services/environment/watersheds/general-information/introduction.aspx] * The Superfund Status of the Duwamish River:  https://www.drcc.org/what-is-superfund [https://www.drcc.org/what-is-superfund] * Duwamish River History & Photographs:  https://www.drcc.org/river-history-and-photographs [https://www.drcc.org/river-history-and-photographs] Recommended Reading and Listening List inspired by Simon, Arturo, Allie, and Orian: * Listen to James Rasmussen [https://www.peacelutheranseattle.org/?p=4124], Duwamish Tribe and Founder of the DRCC * The River that Made Seattle [https://duwamishhistory.com/] by BJ Cummings * Haboo:  Native American Stories from Puget Sound [https://uwapress.uw.edu/book/9780295746968/haboo/] by Vi Hilbert * One River, a Thousand Voices [https://www.terrain.org/2021/reviews-reads/one-river-a-thousand-voices/] by Claudia Castro Luna * When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through [https://wwnorton.com/books/9780393356809] by Joy Harjo * Occasional Objects [https://simonwolf.squarespace.com/store/p/occasional-objects-1] by Simon Wolf and Cedar Sigo * Learn Conga Drum [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLV5KBGbmmlfBKnv-kaF_KrTSqilOknQtF] technique from Arturo Rodriguez * Watch Simon Wolf’s Place Based Poetics [https://www.youtube.com/@Simon_SaysPoems/playlists] series * Listen to drums played by rain [https://kuow-core-prod.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/store/1466cc910a68c374c2930f35dd891234.mp4] at the Cedar River Watershed Education Center