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“I Can Feed You”—Farming, Activism, and Food Justice

Text and photos By Virginia Hamilton This summer was a particularly rough one. While wading through a host of personal issues, I was also absorbing a constant onslaught of images of bloodied, dust-covered children being pulled from wreckage and black bodies dying on shaky cell phone cameras. Refugees, soaking and sinking. Too little water and… Read More →

Filed Under: Food, Uncategorized, Western NC Tagged With: activism, farm, food justice, Warren Wilson College

Pete Seeger’s lessons for we who sing, and we who stand nearby

(Pete Seeger at the Great Hudson River Revival, 2011)    (Post title comes from Seeger’s song, “To My Old Brown Earth”) Last Monday morning sometime after six, I heard the radio talking about Pete Seeger’s career and said aloud, “Oh, no.” Throughout the day and week I read many tributes and memorials in the news… Read More →

Filed Under: NC Field, Theory in Practice, Uncategorized Tagged With: activism, community-based development, environmental stewardship, folk music, Folk Revival, health, Pete Seeger, traditional culture

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