Tag Archives: Local Foods
Empowering Kids Through Gardening
October 29, 2012Over the past three years, Grow it Green Morristown has seen thousands of children come through the gates of the Urban Farm at Lafayette, a ½ acre farm devoted to teaching our community about healthy eating, sustainable agriculture, and community … Continue reading
New Jersey’s Fresh Faces of Farming
October 24, 2012One of the joys of writing about food in New Jersey is the people I meet who are bringing new meaning to farming and food production in the Garden State. When you picture your typical farmer, what do you imagine? … Continue reading
“Can I Get This At Whole Foods?”
April 4, 2012Musings from the Philadelphia Farm and Food Fest This past Sunday, I spent the afternoon walking around the first-ever Philadelphia Farm and Food Fest, an event organized by Fair Food and the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture. Amid thousands of … Continue reading
Will the Real Family Farmer Please Stand up?
June 30, 2011By Michelle Knapik Environment Program Director The beauty of the Sustainable Ag and Food System Funders Conference is its recipe for learning and relationship building. There were panel sessions that offered a rich mix of historical perspectives, policy issues, and movement … Continue reading
Re-imagining the Work of Ending Hunger, Part 2
June 29, 2011A pay what you can café? With locally-sourced food and compostable take-out containers? You bet. New Brunswick based Elijah’s Promise is rethinking the traditional models of alleviating and ending hunger. Read more to learn about A Better World Café. And … Continue reading
Re-imagining the Work of Ending Hunger, Part 1
June 22, 2011Please welcome Rev. Lisanne Finston, the Executive Director of Elijah’s Promise, to the Dodge blog today. Based in New Brunswick, Elijah’s Promise’s mission is to empower lives, invite justice, and alleviate hunger, which they do in many creative, thoughtful and … Continue reading
When eBay Meets eHarmony for Young Farmers
April 25, 2011Today is the last in our guest series with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and their partners on strengthening our regional food system. As you will read today, the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) is working creatively to … Continue reading
Eating Fresh Here: Farm to School Systems Change
April 18, 2011Let’s talk about food. Today’s blog post, part of the continuing series with Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission on strengthening our regional food systems, comes from another grantee, Fair Food, who is thinking about access to fresh foods as a … Continue reading
The City of Locavore Love
April 11, 2011Hello and Happy Monday! We’re excited to bring you another installment of our guest blog series with the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission and their partners helping to strengthen our regional food system. Today’s post by Meryl Levitz, President and … Continue reading
Working Together for a Stronger Food System
March 21, 2011Since 2009, Dodge has enthusiastically supported the Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission‘s (DVRPC) Food System Stakeholders Committee, which brings together representatives from over 100 organizations in New Jersey and Pennsylvania interested in creating a sustainable regional food system. As you … Continue reading
New Grantee: Red Tomato
November 12, 2010This week we announced our most recent round of grantmaking: $1.6 million to 44 organizations. You can see the full details here. One of the new grantees to come out of this round of grantmaking is Red Tomato, an organization … Continue reading
Urban Agriculture: Shifting From Oasis to Food System Mainstream?
August 9, 2010Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director The explosion of interest around urban ag is undeniable. It is little wonder as it serves as a portal to community building, local pride, skill building, the knitting of relationships across perceived cultural and age … Continue reading
August 1 – 7 is National Farmers Market Week
August 2, 2010Molly de Aguiar, Program Associate Highland Park Farmers Market This week is National Farmers Market Week – a good reminder of the importance of supporting our local farm families, investing dollars in our local communities, and buying fresh, local food. … Continue reading
Crafting a New Food & People Economy
June 23, 2010Michelle Knapik, Environment Program Director Last week I was part of the Sustainable Agriculture and Food System Funders Conference (note, I didn’t say I that I attended – there is an urgency to this issue that calls for much more … Continue reading
Cooking Up a Healthy Food System
April 7, 2010Michelle Knapik, Program Director (Click on the image for the Better World Cafe website) I recently returned from a 2.5 day food-land-people adventure that started in the “sustainable kitchen” of Elijah’s Promise, an anti-hunger organization in New Brunswick that buys … Continue reading