Food for the Spirit

Member Since | 2020

Food for the Spirit (F4tS) was first established in 2018 to use the arts and creative facilitation to cultivate racial healing, ecological justice, and equitable food systems. We connect people with methods and strategies from national movement leaders and systems-thinkers to support the development of local communities, building power through relational-organizing and trust-building. Partnering with people and communities in the City of Buffalo and Western New York, the Genesee Valley Region, and throughout New York State, we support the development of networks where local people can work together to address the issues they experience. Racial justice in food systems and agriculture is an explicit part of our mission and we believe that people who are most impacted by issues of race and racism in the food system are most equipped to identify the issues and solutions to those issues. Therefore, we center Black, Indigenous, Asian, Latinx, and other folks of color in our organizing and planning efforts. Since our inception, we have developed two place-based networks, the Buffalo Food Equity Network and the Genesee Valley Black Farmers, and we are currently supporting the development of a third network of BIPOC farmers and food systems actors across the state.

Learn more here: https://foodforthespirit.org/