The Good Food Revolution
Do you want to know who inspired us? Do you want to learn more about the Good Food Revolution?
These are the people and organizations that have inspired the work we do at Feed Denver.
These are the people and organizations that have inspired the work we do at Feed Denver.
Myrtle and Darina Allen
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Myrtle Allen and her daughter in law, Darina took the lead in reinventing - or was it remembering - the natural foods of Ireland. Through their businesses, books, newspaper columns and political activism in both Ireland and the EU these women reminded the Irish of the amazing traditions they have in both food and agriculture.
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Will Allen
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Will Allen founded and runs Growing Power in Milwaukee. Establishing a profitable urban farm in the inner-city challenged the concept of farm and community around the world.
"My father taught me that the fate of a seed can be predicted by the health of the soil where it takes root. This is true of summer crops. It can be true, in another sense, of people. We all need a healthy environment and a community that lets us fulfill our potential." |
Eliot Coleman
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"The only truly dependable production technologies are those that are sustainable over the long term. By that very definition, they must avoid erosion, pollution, environmental degradation, and resource waste. Any rational food-production system will emphasize the well-being of the soil-air-water biosphere, the creatures which inhabit it, and the human beings who depend upon it.”
― Eliot Coleman, The New Organic Grower: A Master's Manual of Tools and Techniques for the Home and Market Gardener |
Riane Eisler
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RIANE EISLER, JD is President of the Center for Partnership Studies and is internationally known for her ground-breaking contributions as a systems scientist, attorney working for the human rights of women and children, and author of The Chalice and the Blade: Our History, Our Future (Harper & Row, 1988), now in 25 foreign editions, and The Real Wealth of Nations: Creating a Caring Economics (Berrett-Koehler, 2008), hailed by Archbishop Desmond Tutu as “a template for the better world we have been so urgently seeking” by Gloria Steinem as “revolutionary,” and by Jane Goodall as “a call for action."
Eisler is founder and president of the Center for Partnership Studies, dedicated to research, education, and public policy work through programs such as the Caring Economy Campaignworking on development of Social Wealth indicators that show the financial value of investing in people and nature and has a Caring Economy Coalition and Leadership Training program. Another CPS program is the Spiritual Alliance to Stop Intimate Violence (SAIV), which Eisler co-founded with Nobel Peace laureate Betty Williams. Riane Eisler has been a leader in the movements for peace, environmental sustainability, economic equity, and human rights. Her work is widely applied in many organizations, and she consults for business and governments on practical applications of the partnership model introduced in her work. |
Joan Gussow
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Joan Dye Gussow is a professor, author, food policy expert, environmentalist and gardener. The New York Times has called her the "matriarch of the eat-locally-think-globally food movement."
From Farm Aid: A Song For America: "It's so encouraging to watch the breakdown of agricultural ignorance in communities across the country, as increasing numbers of eaters realize how unhappy they are with the things to eat that agribusiness has brought them... ...so while there continues to be pain and grief and loss on farmlands across the nation, there is also hope and determination to make a different system, one where vibrant local economies are based on thriving family farms, small-scale business enterprises, and markets featuring fresh local food year-round--economies that will make farming once again a desirable lifestyle, so that handing down the farm to one's children will no longer seem like a punishment but a privilege." |
Wes Jackson
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“What we must think about is an agriculture with a human face. We must give standing to the new pioneers, the homecomers bent on the most important work for the next century - a massive salvage operation to save the vulnerable but necessary pieces of nature and culture and to keep the good and artful examples before us. It is time for a new breed of artists to enter front and center, for the point of art, after all, is to connect. This is the homecomer I have in mind: the scientist, the accountant who converses with nature, a true artist devoted to the building of agriculture and culture to match the scenery presented to those first European eyes.”
― Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place |
Fred Kirshenmann
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"Our agriculture system in the past was based on cheap energy, it depended on surplus available fresh water, and it depended on a stable climate. None of those things are going to be there in the future." Interview with Peter Pearsall, Farmer-Philosopher Fred Kirschenmann on Food and the Warming Future, Yes Magazine, February 22, 2013
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Gary Paul Nabhan
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Gary's work and writing about the changing landscape of the desert Southwest is stunning. Read any of his books and rethink your own choices in gardening and farming.
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Penn & Cord Parmenter
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These two are Rocky Mountain Good Food heroes. If you want some out the the box, do with what
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Carlo Petrini
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In passionate response to the first McDonalds opening on the Spanish Steps in Rome, journalist Carlo Petrini started Slow Food, an international movement founded in 1986 to support food that is Good, Clean, and Fair. Promoted as an alternative to fast food, it strives to preserve traditional and regional cuisine and encourages farming of plants, seeds and livestock characteristic of the local ecosystem. It was the first established part of the broader Slow Movement. The movement has since expanded globally to over 100,000 members in 150 countries. Its goals of sustainable foods and promotion of local small businesses are paralleled by a political agenda directed against globalization of agricultural products.
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Joel Salatin
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"A farm includes the passion of the farmer's heart, the interest of the farm's customers, the biological activity in the soil, the pleasantness of the air about the farm -- it's everything touching, emanating from, and supplying that piece of landscape. A farm is virtually a living organism. The tragedy of our time is that cultural philosophies and market realities are squeezing life's vitality out of most farms. And that is why the average farmer is now 60 years old. Serfdom just doesn't attract the best and brightest."
— Joel Salatin (Everything I Want To Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front) |
Vandana Shiva
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“Globalized industrialized food is not cheap: it is too costly for the Earth, for the farmers, for our health. The Earth can no longer carry the burden of groundwater mining, pesticide pollution, disappearance of species and destabilization of the climate. Farmers can no longer carry the burden of debt, which is inevitable in industrial farming with its high costs of production. It is incapable of producing safe, culturally appropriate, tasty, quality food. And it is incapable of producing enough food for all because it is wasteful of land, water and energy. Industrial agriculture uses ten times more energy than it produces. It is thus ten times less efficient.”
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