Turning the Tide: Towards a Just and Sustainable (Food) Future

3308 Garrow Street,Houston TX 77003

24 February, 2022

Description

Speaker Series for a Sustainable (Food) Future PIF and the Houston Climate Justice Museum are teaming up to present this bi-monthly speaker series. Throughout the series we'll bring in authors & local experts to explore how we built a 20th food system that is collapsing global ecosystems, driving farms out of business, and creating untenable food access disparities. Our first speaker will be Chris Smaje, author of A Small Farm Future: Making the Case for a Society Built Around Local Economies, Self-Provisioning, Agricultural Diversity and a Shared Earth. He will discuss how we broke our ecosystems and agriculture in the 20th century, and present an alternative approach that just might enable future generations to thrive. Drinks and light bites will be provided. We hope you'll join us. Plant It Forward (PIF) is Houston’s largest network of urban farms. We work with independent, professional farmers who are New Americans. We distribute fresh produce throughout our community via weekly Farm Shares, Farmers Markets, and chef & wholesale customers. As a non-profit organization, we provide targeted services to farm businesses operating in the PIF network, including access to land, agricultural and business mentorship, and access to fair markets/sales opportunities/customer base. Our Food Hub provides critical marketing services that grow the viability of small farm businesses in Houston.