Virtual Workshop: Food as a Public Work

Virtual Workshop: Food as a Public Work
Thursday, November 17, 2022
1-2pm Eastern
Register at https://bit.ly/nov-2022-food-as-a-public-work

Join us for the third and final installment of the Networks of Opportunity for Child Wellbeing (NOW) 2022 Webinar Series, featuring Pantaleon Florez III of Maseualkualli Farms and Vital Village Networks 2022 Community Food Systems Fellow. This session will feature a workshop on the Food as a Public Work Campaign that seeks to reintegrate private lands into public commons while enacting food and agricultural producer justice via a targeted universalism approach.

About the Speaker:
Pantaleon Florez III is a no-till, no fossil fuel cultivating fruit and herb farmer, educator, and agricultural researcher based in Lawrence. His farm is called Maseualkualli Farms, which means The Peoples’ Farms in Nahuatl. Cultivation on the farm focuses on Mexica/Chichimecan crops such as pipiche, papalotl, yauhtli, izote, jicama, and nopalli. He is also breeding and locally adapting maize from his great grandparents' homelands of Guanajuato, Mexico utilizing ancestral Mexica cultivation methodologies (SARE Publication: FNC19-1161). Florez’s current work focuses on building equity in agriculture, developing new food systems to end food apartheid in the US, and establishing food as a public work via the Peoples’ Century Farm project.

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NOTA: Hay una línea en español disponible para los participantes que deseen escuchar interpretación en vivo durante el seminario web.

About the 2022 NOW Webinar Series
Levers of Change in Action: Unpacking the NOW Playbook
Through this three-part series, we’ll hear from NOW network leaders and others who are applying the levers of change outlined in the NOW Playbook in their communities.  These levers are critical to ensure the equitable transformation and alignment of community systems, including strategies to center racial equity and healing; implement shared governance and equitable decision making; engage communities authentically and with dignity; develop and disseminate data stories, and plan for sustainability. The NOW Playbook delves into these levers and is a resource guide designed to provide tools for local leaders, community coalitions and networks, educators, practitioners, and policymakers working to promote the wellbeing of children and families, advance equity, and align systems of care and education in early childhood.