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Our Best Food Justice Stories of 2023

Civil Eats

The food system bears a disproportionate impact on communities of color, ranging from the farmworkers struggling to feed themselves even as they harvest the nation’s produce to the BIPOC farmers who are often shut out from crucial financing and other resources. Now it’s focused on feeding its neighbors with support from across the city.

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Oral History Project Preserves Black and Indigenous Food Traditions

Civil Eats

Ujamaa’s mission is to cultivate and create agency for BIPOC farmers and give their communities easy access to the foods important to them. We would harvest things in the morning, prepare them, and they’d be on the table for 3 o’clock. link] I would follow Granddaddy out to the garden that was plowed by the mule.

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