Groups are demanding that Kenya stop importing GMOS and focus more on organic agriculture.
http://www.newsfromafrica.org/newsfromafrica/articles/art_12714.html
06
Jul
11
Action to stop GMO’s in Kenya
06
Jul
11
I See
Look into your minds eye and see the life you desire. If you can see it, you can achieve it. Use your gift of creative imagination to transform or improve any condition in your life. WE must first picture what we want in our mind. We can then transfer the picture we have created onto a vision board or a prayer wheel and remind ourselves daily that the good we desire is ready to come forth and enrich ourlives . See yourself perfect, whole and complete and you will be those things. And so it is!
05
Jul
11
Diabetes and Meat Consumption
There is quite a bit to learn about food and the system that delivers it to us. It is clear that much of what is in our food is not healthy for us. Lots of attention has been given to this in terms of diet its relationship to health. Specifically, individual food choice as a method to address diet related diseases such as diabetes, hypertension and obesity.
It is also becoming clearer that health and food consumption is not just one aspect of a healthy diet. A healthy diet must include food is that is produced in a manner that is health promoting. The following article give you a clue that we are eating much more than we know.
http://motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2011/07/are-pesticides-giving-you-diabetes
11
Dec
10
Whew…I’m back!
Hello Everyone,
After a little over a year, the next iteration of Graffiti and Grub is ready to take off . As you can imagine, I have learned a lot. I have been working on some exciting projects which include making sure that great food is accessible to everyone-everywhere!
Beginning next week, posts to the blog will happen regularly. This will be the place to come to find out whats going on and where.
It is my intention to make Graffiti and Grub the blog where great food, hip hop and activism meet to create a healthy more vibrant world.
Until next time… keep the faith!
LaDonna-your urban food goddess!
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Brooklyn chef “Dante Fried Chicken” posted this cooking segment featuring New York Hip Hop artist Theophilus London in the kitchen making Chocolate Coconut Pumpkin Pie…. perfect for this time of year. Graffiti meets grub!
26
Sep
09
Graffiti and Grub on CAN-TV
Vodpod videos no longer available.On a hot Chicago summer day, sometimes there is nothing sweeter than biting into a juicy peach or watermelon. Most of us can buy these summer-time treats at our neighborhood grocer – or, if we’re lucky – at one of the city’s many farmer’s markets.
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But for residents living in some south and west side neighborhoods, grocery stores are few and far between. These food deserts deprive residents of nutritious food choices and healthy eating habits.
Earlier this year Mari Gallagher’s Research & Consulting Group in Chicago released a study on food deserts. The study identified over 600,000 Chicagoans living with distant or no grocery stores nearby. The report also stated that people living in these food deserts were more likely to suffer from diet related diseases and premature death.
But even at our favorite corner store, finding affordable, fresh produce can be difficult.
These obstacles drove some residents to create their own community gardens – such as Graffiti and Grub. Created by parent and activist La Donna Redmond, the organization is located between two food deserts in Washington Park and Englewood. Graffiti and Grub is one community-based solution to food deserts.
On this episode of Community Media and You, we’ll talk with La Donna and her partner Wil Seegars about Graffiti and Grub’s beginnings and other Chicago food deserts.”
–from CAN TV’s “Community, Media, & You”
25
Sep
09
what’s a bioneer?
We’re on the cusp of changing our community: one step at a time. A bioneer is a pioneer… a pioneer concerned with finding solutions to environmental and social justice issues. Sound like you? Check out the Bioneers Conference. The Conference this year is being held in San Rafael, CA, and is an excellent opportunity to connect with now and future bioneers.
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LaDonna Redmond was recently profiled in Time Magazine as one of only 25 “Responsibility Pioneers” nationwide.
by Steven Gray
LaDonna Redmond considers opening an organic-food market on Chicago’s South Side the act of a freedom fighter. After 10 years of having to drive across town to find produce free of pesticides, the veteran community activist recently opened Graffiti and Grub, a for-profit market staffed by inner-city youth who also work on urban farms in an employment program run through the store. “There aren’t enough of these choices in the South Side,” she says, adding, “Everyone deserves healthy food.”
Graffiti and Grub 