Turning Lawn into Native Pollinator Garden!

by Nada Khader | Mar 31, 2022 | Blogs, Community Gardening, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Frontpage

Rock Steady CSA Delivery in Mount Vernon

by Nada Khader | Apr 2, 2020 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Community Gardening, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Frontpage

Ruby Olisemeka is a Food Justice leader in Mount Vernon and will be coordinating a new CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) delivery in her home town of Mount Vernon. The food is being produced by Rock Steady Farm in Millerton, NY, and will help provide nourishing,...

WESPAC Director on our Food System

by Nada Khader | Dec 10, 2019 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Community Gardening, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Frontpage

Corinne Segal has done a fabulous job with this interview on our food system, and how appropriate that it comes out on International Human Rights Day and on the day that we discuss Eric Holt-Gimenez’s book tonight at WESPAC at 7pm on Can We Feed the World...

The Story on Soil

by Nada Khader | Jan 31, 2018 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Community Gardening, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice

http://woodstockearth.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-storyon-soil-carbon-microbes-and.html

WESPAC Plot at Bethel Baptist Community Gardens

by Nada Khader | Aug 17, 2016 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Community Gardening, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Frontpage

A big thanks to Sadie’s initiative at the Bethel Baptist Community Gardens in White Plains. The WESPAC plot has produced dozens of pounds of fresh produce for the Open Arms Men’s Shelter in downtown White Plains. Thank you, Sadie, and to all who have...

Community Earth Day Celebration

by Nada Khader | Apr 7, 2016 | Blogs, Communities & Focus Areas, Community Gardening, Director's Blog, Environmental and Food Justice, Movement Building

Celebrating New Partnerships and FriendsJoin us as we prepare community gardens, composting bins, neighborhood cleanup and more Sunday, April 17th, from 10am to 3pm First Seventh-day Adventist Church of White Plains 180 Juniper Hill Road Greenburgh, NY 10607 Join...

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"When you lift from the bottom, everybody rises! Social workers and the Poor People's Campaign."What is it?: A webinar on May 23rd at 7PM ESTFeaturing: SWEPT (Social Workers Ending Poverty Together)Hosts: SWAA (Social Welfare Action Alliance), NWRU (National Welfare Rights Union), and NUH (National Union of the Homeless)The contemporary Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call for Moral Revival aims to eradicate the interlocking systemic injustices of poverty, racism, militarism, and environmental devastation; it also confronts the false moral narrative that sustains them. Social workers involved in the Poor People’s Campaign have found that it enhances the effectiveness and ethical dimensions of their daily work from the clinic to the community and from direct practice to policy and research. In this webinar we explore how and why that happens, and the ways that the campaign turns pain into power for lasting change.To register for the webinar, visit us at www.socialwelfareactionalliance.orgTo read the bios of the social workers in the SWEPT Collective, click here.For more information, visit our website or see the flyer below!Zoom link will be sent to all participants the day of the event.Registration for the event is required. ... See MoreSee Less

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