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Book n’ Cook

Initially begun in September of 2020 in collaboration with the Evansville African American Museum (EAAM), the Evansville Vanderburgh Public Library (EVPL) Lincoln School, Legacy Taste of the Garden (LTotG) and Memorial Community Development

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Nourishing Our Community

Urban Seeds is the lead organization for Nourish, Community Food Buying Club (nourishevv.org). Thanks to a generous grant from Welborn Baptist Foundation, we are able to collaborate with several community

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Story Challenge

We are excited to announce the inaugural Story Challenge, an event for high school students to write/speak/film/perform their perspective on the intersections of Food Justice with cultural familiarity, food access,

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Food Resilience

Urban Seeds helps nourish community BY MEGHAN STRATTON / PHOTOS BY ALEX MONTGOMERY EVANSVILLE LIVING The COVID-19 pandemic slowed down many things, but Evansville organization Urban Seeds continued going strong.

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Second Annual World Food Day

Join Us on October 24th, 2019 from 3:00-6:00 pm for the Second Annual World Food Day event!  This free event will be held at Trinity United Methodist Church in Evansville.

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What Is Food Justice?

Food justice is the belief that healthy food is a human right; so everyone has an inherent right to access nourishing, fresh food. Access considerations are a mixture of location,

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EVV Area Food Council meeting notes 8.1.2019

Present: Blythe Battram, Urban Seeds; David Brenner, Vanderburgh Farm Bureau; Casey Williams, Purdue Extension; Andrew Smith, Purdue Extension; Arlinda Payne, EVV Chapter Black Nurses Association, Memorial Baptist Church; Helen Azarian, EVV

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Meet Our Intern

Urban Seeds has had the wonderful experience of adding our first intern to our group of dedicated volunteer members this summer. She is a tremendous asset to not only us

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Urban Seeds at Mesker Zoo

Urban Seeds is excited to spend April 20 at Mesker Zoo to celebrate Earth Day at their Party for the Planet event! We will have plants and seeds for the

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Evansville Area Food Council

1.30.2019 meeting notes Attended: Robin Mallery robinmallery@sbcglobal.net Casey Williamswill1582@purdue.edu Lacy Wilson wilso766@purdue.edu Lisa Myer Lisa.myer@ascension.org Ashley Tenbarge ashley.tenbarge@ascension.org(812) 485-4691  Tameka Watson Tameka@tri-cap.net(812) 428-2189 Mary Winstead mary.l.winstead@gmail.com(812) 774-5616  Va Cun va.cun@swiyp.org(812) 205-8463 Julie McCollough jmcculo@usi.edu(812) 461-5213 Len Winiger lwiniger@icloud.com(812) 204-6113  Chris

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