Our group project focused on the demystification of the food commodity chain – that is, the relationships that take food from seed/conception to consumer. We kept our population limited to UW/U District, interviewing people we had connections with, including farmer’s market vendors, student food workers, and grocery store workers. Although we did not have time to approach all rungs of… Read more »
Seeing as I missed the actual quiz section day in which we formed our action groups, I’ll admit that I was a little nervous as to who I would be teamed up with. To my pleasant surprise, I was put in a group whose passion for sustainable soils mirrored my own. I was so taken with everyone’s excitement towards the… Read more »
For our action project, my group and I focused on food waste, as it is a very prominent problem in the world food system. We wanted to tackle this problem both locally and globally to inform the public on what food waste is, how it is a problem, how it impacts the global community, and how students can take action… Read more »
Through our group action project, I learned that individual strengths can lead to divisions of labor that are sometimes hard to equalize. I feel this way because I realized that my shortcomings as an organizer and the limits of my time resulted in a less equal contribution than I would have normally expected of myself. I tried to make up… Read more »
For our Group Action Project, we wanted to host a public screening of the documentary Queen of the Sun: What are the Bees Telling Us? on the HUB lawn one evening so that people could become well informed on the issues surrounding Honey Bees while also enjoying a nice evening outside! We had partnered with the University of Washington’s Beekeeping… Read more »
Food is just about everywhere. Or should I say “food” is just about everywhere? Healthy, authentic food is hard to come by now. Due to mass industrialization and production of food and/or food products, the definition of food has been loosely thrown around. Small-scale, independent farming eventually became large-scale farming to provide for the general public. In the beginning, we… Read more »
For the action project, my group focused on the issue of food waste. We set up interviews with representatives who all had different roles in the food system. We interviewed professor Karen Litfin, professor Sally Brown from the ESRM department, a representative from HFS Athletes dining, a representative from the UW farm, and a representative from Imperfect Produce. We asked… Read more »
My group’s action project on food waste ended up (after a bit of re-calibrating) being the creation of a website to spread awareness of how much food goes to waste, and the effects of this waste. We also focused on a few groups that are doing their part in reducing food waste – Imperfect Produce, and UW Campus Sustainability funded… Read more »
What is food and how is it part of a larger system? This is the question that we have been learning about all quarter long and what my action project group decided to explore through food waste. Before I took on this project food as waste was merely the cuisine that I was unable to finish at the dinner table. I had… Read more »
The action group project this quarter has been a whole new experience for me in my four years of attending a university. When we first began to pick topics I found myself interested in doing something with food. When the topic of food waste came up I knew that that topic was something I wanted to focus on. For our… Read more »