GrassRoots Middle

This winter, our students dove deep into food justice and community-controlled food economies through our place-based curriculum across Atlanta. We opened the session by connecting Dr. King's vision of environmental and economic justice to how community gardens build neighborhood power and food sovereignty. We also explored gentrification through neighborhood observation walks, examining how changing jobs, demographics, and development reshape who has access to land, food, an

We'd been talking about food apartheid for weeks. The charts, the vocabulary, the questions — our students had the framework. But walking into Sevananda? That's when it got real. Sevananda is one of the oldest collectively-owned natural food stores in the Southeast, and it's right here in Atlanta. Community-owned means the people who shop there can also own it. Decisions about what's stocked, who's paid fairly, where the money goes — that's not a distant corporation. That's t

This season at GrassRoots Middle we are studying the importance of food and it's connection to our government. We can't effectively discuss food without mentioning the importance of SLOW Food. The SLOW Food movement was created in 1989 in Italy by Carlo Petrini. Carlo, along with others, was protesting the opening of a McDonalds in Rome. To protest the McDonald's "Americanizing" of the Italian culture, Petrini directed protestors and others to eat locally and honor regional