Food, land use & Health Working Group
Create Better Food Cultures In Our Communities
Understand The Interconnectedness Of Food, Health, Community, And Sustainability
Plan Local Projects And Campaigns To Reduce Climate Impacts And Increase Awareness
Past Events
Microgreens & Composting
Growing your own microgreens can be a fun and educational experience! Learn about microgreens and how to grow them, composting, and soil microbiology from Covenant Pathways!
Covid-19 & Climate Change in Indigenous Communities
Learn how covid-19 & climate change are both disproportionately impacting Indigenous communities with guest speakers, Dr. Karen Jarratt-Snider & Nikki Cooley.
Nest’an: Reconnecting through the preservation and promotion of Indigenous foods
How indigenous knowledge is reconnecting the Yavapai and Apache people to the land through food sovereignty.
FoodPrints
We examine the impact of various food choices and spotlight a cooking tutorial for a high-flavor, low-impact Burger: Smoky Braised Tempeh with a helping of environmental awareness by Chef Molly Beverly from Prescott Slow Foods.
Food & Sustainable Living
Proudly presenting a panel with representatives from Refugia Gardens, Corbin Composting, and Roots Micro Farm talking about sustainability and how you can get involved!
Food Choices & Climate Change: Diets That Make a Difference
Dr. Jolene Bowers is a public health scientist with a PhD in molecular biology. In her research, she has discovered that switching to a whole food, plant-based diet is a powerful way to help curb most, if not all, of our major public health threats, including our current climate crisis.
Climate Change’s Impacts on Human Health
An overview of climate change's impacts on human health, along with suggestions and action. Katherine Allen earned her M.P.H. in Health Education, Health Communication, and International Health from Tulane University's School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine.
Resources:
Covenant Pathways
Covenant Pathways and established Spirit Farm on Navajo Nation as a demonstration farm focused on healing the high desert soil with regenerative methods to achieve resiliency and food sovereignty in the local Navajo and Zuni communities.
Roots Micro Farm
We are a 1/4 acre urban farm in old town Flagstaff, Arizona dedicated to growing high quality and specialty produce.
Corbin Composting
Healthy soil for a healthy life.
We continue to learn and evolve as we meet the needs of the Flagstaff community.
Refugia Gardens
We tend kinship between land and people by growing and gathering bioregional crops and by creating thriving refuges for human and other-than-human communities.
NACA (Native Americans for Community Action)
Intro to Composting at Flagstaff Community Gardens - Watch VIDEO
Curiosity of: Chef Molly Beverly
Food Activist-Teacher-Caterer-Food Writer, Chair Slow Food Prescott
A foodprint measures the environmental impacts associated with growing, producing, transporting, and storing our food — from the natural resources consumed to the pollution produced to the greenhouse gases emitted.
Institute for Local Self Reliance:
Project Drawdown: Food, Agriculture, and Land Use section
East Flagstaff Seed Library: By collecting and providing a pure source of seeds optimal for our local conditions and the knowledge on how to grow them, the seed library promises that people will have a better chance of becoming successful gardeners each year.
Coconino County Cooperative Extension Office (2304 N 3rd St, Flagstaff, AZ). FACEBOOK
Gardening in Flagstaff Tips & Tricks from The Arboretum: https://thearb.org/learn/gardening-tips/
BOOKS:
Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants - Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer (Citizen Potawatomi Nation)
A People’s Ecology: Explorations in Sustainable Living - Dr. Gregory Cajete (Pueblo of Santa Clara) Link to 2015 TEDx talk: “Pueblo Story of Sustainability”