Decolonizing Food with GreenSpace

If you are reading this, you may be living in a colonized food system. Here are the symptoms:
- The means of food production is controlled by the few.
- Spiritual significance of food is minimized or absent.
- Food is treated as a privilege for those who can afford it, not a human right.

But what does it mean to decolonize food? What does a decolonized food system look like in today's world? We invite you to learn from the work being done by the indigenous people of this land.

Indigenous Food Systems Talk:
7-8pm Tomorrow (Tues. 11/1) in Bausch and Lomb 106
Angel Jimerson of the Seneca Heron clan will share the story of the White Corn Project: an effort to restore white corn as a staple in the traditional Haudenosaunee diet. The growing, harvesting, storing, and consuming of white corn is an important cultural pillar of the Haudenosaunee people indigenous to this land, which also regenerates the soil it is grown on.

A tour and history of the White Corn Project will be given, including a Q&A session. This project was in collaboration with Sustainability through Engineering (SE) and The Friends of Ganondagan, a not for profit, 501c. (3) Corporation created in 1989 as a private educational partner to Ganondagan State Historic Site.
Important: This event was relocated to B&L 106 and will not be held in Douglass 407.

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Thank you, we hope to see you there!

Peace,

Allison Roll (she/her)
GreenSpace President
University of Rochester 2024



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