Sharing an important message from Worcester County Food Bank’s Director of Advocacy, Liz Sheehan-Castro. The full text of the letter is included below, but here are a few highlights: Please take the time TODAY to ask your representative to support two budget amendments: Fund the Healthy Incentives Program at $8.5 million. This is the amount […]
Keeping up with what’s going on in the world of food, food security, food justice and food insecurity means we spend a lot of time reading news feeds from various sources. Besides picking up important news and events, scanning the news feeds also gives us a snapshot of trending topics. Over the past few months, […]
2018 was a busy year — and not an easy one. A look back at our blog over the past year shows a slew of Action Alerts, where we called on you to help us push some important issue to the forefront and help pass — or prevent — food policies that would affect some […]
2018 was a year for the books. We watched the administration roll back rules that protect the environment, support small farms, address food insecurity and encourage food sovereignty. Food policy advocates spent much of the year putting out dumpster fires — challenging new rules around work requirements, so-called “Harvest Boxes” and immigration. In the midst […]
We’re winding down to the end of the 2018, and you know what that means. People are starting to think about their New Year’s resolutiosn for 2019. We’ve got a few suggestions for New Year’s resolutions that will help in the fight against food insecurity and hunger in the community. Some are one-time things you […]
