2nd Important Update (posted February 27) Hi folks, Unfortunately Uncle Mike is not able to join us tomorrow after all as he’s been called elsewhere. We’ll certainly be in conversation with him and Michelle about having him back soon as we can. We’re still going to move ahead with the conversation tomorrow centering consent, reciprocity, […]

  We’re looking forward to circling up next week for the start of this CoP season. This month, we’ll guide an experiential session on Ecocycle Planning. We’ve heard interest in centering facilitation practice as one of the areas the CoP would like to learn and share around as food folks are often public gatherers, process […]

Visual notes by Rianna Eckel for the Maryland Food & Prison Abolition Project‘s May 2022 Food Sovereignty & Abolition Public Roundtable   ✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨✨ “Abolition is world-building. It is building the worlds we want and need.” –Robyn Maynard from Rehearsals for Living with Leanne Betasamosake Simpson  “The project of abolition is concerned with arriving at the […]

  What a full season of learning with the so-called BC Food Security Gateway Community of Practice (Gateway CoP for short). Welcome to a perfectly incomplete share back of some of the conversations we’ve had this season as winter shifted to spring.  We were honoured to be joined twice by Secwepemc Elder Uncle Mike Arnouse, […]