Welcome, Khue!
24.11.2020 in Washington state, International Rescue CommitteeWelcome our newest Harvest VISTA!
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Abigail Findley’s Amazing Year of Service as a Harvest VISTA
11.11.2020 in Vashon Maury Island Community Food BankDuring the first week of March, Abigail was eager to present a lesson on food security to students at Chautauqua elementary as they kicked off their March Food Drive. A week later the schools closed down, and on March 25th Governor Inslee announced the stay at home order, and all non-essential businesses and activities were prohibited.
Welcome, Nick!
16.09.2020 in Harvest Blog, WSU Extension Klickitat and Skamania CountiesWelcome our newest Harvest VISTA!
Agency and Ingenuity during COVID-19: A look into the 2020 Farm to Food Bank Program on Vashon Island
30.07.2020 in Harvest Blog, Vashon Maury Island Community Food BankAt the Vashon-Maury Community Food Bank, the Harvest VISTA, Abigail Findley, is creating an equitable and transparent Farm to Food Bank purchasing system.
Opportunity through Forced Creativity
08.07.2020 in Harvest Blog, Washington state, Slow Food SW WAThe seed campaign morphed into developing a program around “Resiliency Garden Kits,” where folks could send a photo of a location on their property that they wanted to cultivate into a publicly accessible vegetable garden..
Collaborations through Crisis
06.05.2020 in Harvest Blog, King County Farmers ShareAfter a number of planning conversations, the cross-organizational team decided to carry out distributing the funds through “CSA-style” contracts, an approach which some KCFS agencies used last year.
The Times, They Are A-changin’
08.04.2020 in Good Cheer Food BankAs a VISTA about to end my service year, this was supposed to be an exciting time – moving on to the next phase, going happily forward into the next chapter. It’s still exciting, but in more of a horror movie ‘don’t open that door’ kinda way. All the things I had planned are now on hold or canceled, and the future is uncertain at best.
Sowing Seeds of Change
02.04.2020 in Harvest Blog, Washington state, Opportunities Industrialization Center (OIC)Food accessibility and sovereignty is crucial during this because convenience has dissipated and overridden the average individual’s ability and knowledge to produce and prepare their own food. A large number of individuals haven’t been exposed or taught traditional means of cooking or growing.
The Importance of Community Resilience in Crisis
26.03.2020 in Harvest Blog, Slow Food SW WAAt this point, there isn’t a soul in the world who hasn’t heard of COVID-19. The novel coronavirus has taken the international community by storm in the past month infecting, at the time of writing, over 420,000 people and killing over 18,000. The world, collectively, is dealing with something that the majority of people have never seen in their lifetimes and figuring out how to proceed in this time of uncertainty has not been easy.
