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Field Reports

Hatching a New Ecology of Food: A guide to bringing an inclusive, sustainable farming system to your community

Kate Taylor, Emerson Fellow
Published 2011

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Hatching a New Ecology of Food: A guide to bringing an inclusive, sustainable farming system to your community presents the Rural Enterprise Center’s approach to sustainable farming in a multimedia guide accessible for community members and leaders in southern Minnesota and beyond.  Relying heavily on interviews, it also documents the realities facing many low income Latino families living in rural communities across the region and the respective challenges and opportunities of conventional and sustainable farming systems.

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Publication tags: Field Reports - Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Food Systems, Food Systems and Agriculture - Rural Communities, Workers (including farm workers)

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Kate Taylor

Emerson Fellow

Kate Taylor is a Chicago native and a 2010 graduate of Brown University, with a degree in history and Africana studies. She completed her honors thesis in Africana studies examining extreme police violence in Chicago in relation to historical forms of racism. Kate managed a nonprofit student-run café, organized food drives, and worked on education and juvenile justice issues. She is particularly interested in examining and addressing the impact of race and racism relating to poverty and the justice system.

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