Archive for March, 2009

Hunger is Unacceptable!

One of my teachers, Dattatreya Siva Baba, encourages his students to serve food to those who are hungry. Not just buy some commodities and drop it off at the food bank. No. He means SERVE them. Literally, by going to any place where a hungry person might be and offering them food you have prepared [...]

It’s a GARDEN PARTY–of OUTRAGEOUS GARDENS!

“Unemployment is capitalism’s way of getting you to plant a garden.” – Orson Scott Card.
You don’t have to be unemployed to join us on March 21st for our “Outrageous Gardens Party” in the near North Valley in Albuquerque.  But if you are, we can show you some creative ways to increase your food security. Here’s [...]

Women hold up half the sky…

…and produce 60-80% of the world’s food supply in Asia and Africa. Yet these same women–who also bear the children, tend the children, haul the water and wood and cook the food they grow–share few if any of the benefits and incentives their male counterparts receive.