We've been working together for just a few months now, sending OSBG interns and service learners up to work on their farms, growing food, herding cattle, caring for baby chicks, fixing fence, the list goes on. As part of Food Justice Summer, hundreds of highschool and college students from Louisiana and across the country will spend time working with Naomi, Wayne and other farmers across Louisiana, learning about bottom-up community organizing and growing a whole lot of food. It was clear by Naomi and Wayne's excitement to finally connect that we've all reached the beginning of a really important relationship. Imagine a future where farmers across the delta know each other and are working together to make their farms and our food system whole again.
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Like bottom-up organizing, growing good food starts with building good soil with persistant collaboration, mutually beneficial relationships and a lot of hard work. Compostng happens in layers (green-brown-green-brown). We liken this layering to the manner in which movements must use a systems-thinking approach that addresses the compounding "layers" of challenges that have detrimental effects on our communities.
How do you build soil to grow good food? How do you build a successful movement for social change?
