Food Justice
Our Kitchen Table Food Justice Primer
by (OKT)
Submitted 05-04-2015 under
Explore our current food system, food justice principles and how we can practice food justice in Grand Rapids. Our Kitchen Table is a non-profit, grassroots community activist organization working for environmental justice and food...
Have you considered growing your own healthy food?
by (OKT)
Submitted 03-18-2015 under NONPROFITS
As the first day of spring approaches, local, grassroots nonprofit, Our Kitchen Table (OKT) is growing food plants at the Blandford Farm greenhouses. In May, OKT will distribute these food plants to the families and individuals...
Food Justice Workshop
by (OKT)
Submitted 02-17-2015 under
Explore our current food system, learn about food justice principles and discover how we can practice food justice in Grand Rapids. Free! · Monday March 23, 6 - 8 p.m. · Tuesday March 24, 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. Our Kitchen Table...
Free five week food justice class starts November 15
by (OKT)
Submitted 10-21-2014 under NONPROFITS
Food Politics and the Food Justice Movement: Moving Forward, 10 a.m. to noon on Saturdays Nov. 15, 22, Dec. 6, 13 & 20 at Garfield Park Lodge, 334 Burton St. SE Whether you are a professional actively involved in local...
"Bike the Foodscape" with OKT Saturday
by (OKT)
Submitted 09-24-2014 under NONPROFITS
Meet OKT at the Southeast Area Farmers’ Market this Saturday Sept. 27 at 3 p.m. to join the OKT “Bike the Foodscape” bicycle tour of SECA neighborhood. The tour will leave from G R Ford Academic Center promptly at 3:30 and return...
Hunger Action Week addresses food access, nutrition in Kent County
by (Feeding America...)
Submitted 09-12-2014 under NONPROFITS
Several Grand Rapids-area hunger-relief organizations are coming together for Hunger Action Week, Sept. 14-20, a series of events whose mission is to educate West Michigan about the reality of local hunger and provide practical ways to get involved...
Story Matters: Wes Eaton shares current Midtown favorites, childhood downtown memories
by (The Rapidian)
Submitted 06-19-2014 under NONPROFITS
We build community when we share our stories - whether they be a memory, an experience or just simply telling what we think is great about this place. STORY MATTERS. is a story collecting project from The Rapidian and GRTV. The Rapidian's...
Learn some new ways to burn in the kitchen!
by (OKT)
Submitted 05-27-2014 under NONPROFITS
Our Kitchen Table invites you to the 2nd Women of Color Convening, 6 – 9 p.m., Thursday, May 29, Madison Square Church Community Room, 1441 SE Madison Avenue SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49507. Lila Cabbil, president emeritus of the Rosa...
You're invited! "Food Politics and the Food Justice Movement: Moving Forward"
by (OKT)
Submitted 10-23-2013 under NONPROFITS
Our Kitchen Table invites you to join us for this five week class that investigates the current food system and food policy, looks at food justice responses around the country and discusses what a food justice...
Hunger Action Week, Eat Local Challenge, and urban food innovation
by (wendypchef)
Submitted 08-28-2013 under OPINION
Feeding America West Michigan would like to challenge you to spend $31.50 for the week on food and beverages (the average amount of assistance received by an individual enrolled in SNAP). Local First wants you to pledge to shift $10 a week for 10...