in partnership with Greenwich Conservation Commission. |
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Greenwich Land Trust's vegetable garden, Food Rescue US - Fairfield County gleaning at a local farm, Greenwich Community Garden's Neighbor to Neighbor garden bed |
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Thank you for your participation in A Tale of Two Towns: Addressing Food Insecurity in Greenwich. We appreciated how fully present everyone was to the conversation, your participation made the evening all the more successful. Thank you to the panelists for sharing their time and expertise. And thank you to our community partners for their support with outreach. During this time of immense suffering and uncertainty, there is nothing more powerful than coming together, as a community, to learn from one another, ask big questions, embrace connectivity, and think creatively. This is our time to expand our imaginations, be bold, and co-create a future that centers beauty, nourishment and ‘the commons’. Food justice initiatives dissolve barriers and provide access to the resources to which we all have a right. Stay tuned for future conversations that will explore the initiatives that we touched on. In the meantime, find their URLs listed in the web pages provided below. |
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- Why do we keep treating hunger as a technical problem, rather than an issue of political will?
- What if we measured hunger in more diverse ways? What if we measured it morally?
- What if we approached hunger not by measuring how to overcome scarcity, but instead by examining how to allocate abundance?
- What if the institutions tasked with measuring hunger were forced to explain why record-high food production is leaving so many people without access to proper sources of nourishment?
~ A Growing Culture |
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- Limited access to grocery stores due to transportation barriers and/or acceptance of SNAP and WIC, contributes to food insecurity in Greenwich.
- In 2023, Connecticut passed legislation to fund universal breakfast, additionally, kids eligible for reduced now receive free lunch.
- In order for a family of four to be eligible for free and reduced lunch, their earned income must be $55,000 or less.
- In order for a family of four to get by in Greenwich they need to earn an income of $151,000.
- Sometimes people experience food insecurity due to an unexpected interruption to employment out of that person's control, such as an illness, accident or loss of a loved one, causing them to seek services for the first time in their lives.
- Food insecurity is interconnected with many other factors such as housing, child care, health care and technology.
- Connecticut is the first state to pass the Baby Bond Program. Any child covered by HUSKY will be enrolled into an account with an initial deposit of $3,200 in the CT Baby Bond Trust. It will address generational poverty by giving families the opportunity to build wealth.
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Fridgehaven, Food Rescue US - Fairfield County, Greenwich Community Garden at Armstrong Court |
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- Advocacy for Universal School Meals
- Free community fridges
- Share tables in schools
- Food rescue and reallocation
- Urban and community farms
- Community gardens
- School gardens
- Training and support for food entrepreneurship
- SNAP + WIC acceptance at farmers markets
- Pay What You Can food retail models
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Greenwich Food Alliance: Learn more about the Alliance: here. November meeting information: here. |
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The Foodshed Network is a community joined together to increase awareness and support and socially and ecologically responsible food system. Our intention is to direct urgently needed attention and resources in a resilient foodshed so that everyone has access to affordable, nourishing and local food. |
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Subscribe to our newsletter ~ The Foodshed Thymes here. |
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