Sink your teeth into our digital journal—a collection of dreams, notes, explorations, and meaning-making in the food culture ecosystem, authored by the Food Culture Collective team, curated & edited by Ada Cuadrado-Medina.
Who gets to belong to the land? And Why?
How do we cultivate a deeper sense of belonging to land, food and the wild through the lens of Indigenous ecology and disability justice? What is possible when we reimagine a world where belonging means to care for the lands, waters and people that nourish us?
These were some of the questions that Food Culture Collective’s Network Weaver, Steph Lew, brought to the table on December 8, with disability justice advocate, Kristie Cabrera, and Indigenous ethnobotanist Dr. Enrique Salmón. They were joined by over 60 guests around the virtual table for a juicy conversation that unearthed ways we can grow a food culture that centers accessibility and leaps courageously into the vibrant potential of the “gray spaces” that lie beyond extractive relationships to food and land.
Future of Care
Today, in 2050, we care about every step that’s brought our food onto our plates. We care about how the workers who made the food are treated. We care about the employees that sell this food and above all, we care about the food itself. We think about what we eat and ask ourselves, “is this food being grown sustainably, so generations after us can enjoy the same nourishment?” In 2050, we ask, “were the animals and plants in this food treated with humanity, care and kindness?” When we ask all these questions, we make the world a little better, for us and our descendants…
Matzo Soup, Cabbage Rolls & Tourtière
These days, we visit the old growth trees, salmon runs, fern-covered forest floors, and berry patches; gifts possible only because we put everything we had into protecting them. If I haven’t already told you the stories about how the Wet'suwet'en protected the Wedzin Kwa, a sacred river, or how the Fairy Creek Blockade defended Ada’itsx and it’s magnificent old growth trees…
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Black Food, Love + Liberation
Black Food, Love & Liberation is an ongoing series curated by our Digital Culture Fellow, Ugoada Ikoro. Each week, Ugo captures stories of joy, beauty, community care, and thriving (beyond surviving) hidden beneath mainstream narratives shaping Black foodways and our relationships to the land.
Around the Table
Our Around The Table series features informal conversations between food workers, thought leaders, elders, organizers, and creatives about emergent insights in food culture. Together, we sink our teeth into the juicy stories, live questions, and critical conversations buzzing in food and culture spaces.
Postcards from 2050
We invited Food Culture Collective community members to imagine forward with us—to a future rooted in care and belonging. Where our food culture is defined by reciprocal relationships and is accountable to the land, water, and people to which we belong. Read their postcards from the future here.
In the Test Kitchen
Dig into this collection of articles and think pieces written by Food Culture Collective staff, community members, and friends, focused on the question—how do we transform our shared food culture?
