Grassroots International

In order to raise awareness about our food and farming system we asked the people in our community to complete the phrase “Food is…” We received responses from all over the United States, Brazil, Haiti, Mexico and Palestine.

Responses ranged from one word to poems and essays and illustrated what Grassroots International has known since we launched our Resource Rights Initiative—people around the world have a lot to say about our food and farming system and recognize that it is more than a simple commodity.

I think about salads in the same way I think about eggs: I can eat them at any time of day, cooked any which way, and with almost anything I have around.

This recipe was handed down from my grandmother. My mom now makes these muffins for almost every holiday or special occasion.

My mother has a book of hand written recipes that provide a map to my childhood. It's as old as I am, 29 years old.

Progress by Grace Darby

When I was a girl,

Eggs were warm, silky brown ,

From haystack barn, manger

When I was seven, the owners of my dad's workplace shut down production and locked the workers out.

Food is a right, a responsibility, a gift, a life, a mystery, a puzzle of unequal distribution of resources which must be solved right now.