Free Store Event

Reduce with Reuse

Recycling is great, but reusing and reducing is better.
Reuse matters because tons of trash (and dollars) can really add up. Each time
you choose used over new, you’re helping to redirect materials from landfills, and
you’re extending the life cycles of natural resources already in circulation.

Freecycling
One person’s trash is another’s treasure. Take part in the Free Store Event this
Friday December 10th 12-4pm in the Fishbowl, sponsored by The Food Justice
Alliance and GW Roots & Shoots.

As you’re thinking of packing up for home, maybe you are studying abroad,
or you just can’t find your textbooks under all the clutter… this is your chance
to purge some of the items you no longer need or want. Bring your gently
used clothing, household items, books or any other odds and ends and give
someone else a change to enjoy them rather than throwing them out. You can
drop off what you don’t want or need and pick up any items that catch your eye!
Everything is FREE!

All leftover items will be donated. Contact foodjusticealliance@gmail.com with
any questions.

Screening of Fresh the film!

Fresh is a film that explores the re-invention of America's food system by featuring farmers, activists, and business people. It's a beautiful and exciting celebration of the change we can make!

Join the Food Justice Alliance to watch this great movie!

Wednesday December 8th at 8pm

Elliot School Building Room B 117

Check out more info on the movie here: http://www.freshthemovie.com/about/

Enter: Hand

Peter Krsko, of Albus Cavus Mural Painters, chose the GroW Community Garden as a host to a sculpture of a hand as a part of the Give Me a Vote Campaign. Check out the campaign here and thanks Albus Cavus for thinking of us!

Shout out to Leticia Banful for being an awesome volunteer and baring the cold with us too!

FJA 1st Annual Fall Food Cook OFF

cream cheese frosting

 Students For Fair Trade

 Caroline

pumpkin soup with sage from the GroW Community Garden

the best pumpkin seeds I have ever tasted, brown sugar, cayenne, rosemary

 Jess with SAFI

 Israeli couscous w/ veggies

 students tasting and voting

Justin, Melissa and Caroline

the prizes were bags filled with jams, butters, apples, breads and cookies from the farmers market
and the winners are....

 Third Place: SOFI

 Second Place: Students for Fair Trade

First Place: Caroline

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 oh no, it's time to go to harry potter

 things always manage to get silly...

Big THANK YOU to everyone who participated!

Photos from Service Excellence Awards

The famous Jessica McConnell Burt took these photos of us at the Service Excellence Awards Ceremony.

Service Excellence in Sustainability

Student Choice Award

Jenny and me rockin' our certificates.

To read the article on GW Today about the Awards Ceremony, click here.

Hoopmania on K st

Food Justice, Progressive Student Union, and Epsilon Sigma Alpha all came out to the Farm at Walker Jones on Sunday to help build hoop houses for the baby spinach plants.

Farmer John bending the hoops.

Staking the hoops with rebar.

Laying the cloth over the hoops. This cloth is really thin, but sturdy. It's the warm weather version of the plastic vinyl that common hoop houses use.

All of our hard work.

A project that would have taken John a day took him under 2 hours with our help! Thank you to all the volunteers that came out!

Fair Trade Chocolate Campaign

Food Justice Alliance teamed up with the Progressive Student Union to promote Fair Trade Chocolate and other products on campus. We had a bake sale using Fair Trade cocoa, we reverse trick-or-treated in Thurston, and showed the movie, The Dark Side of Chocolate.

Tyler Somes, of Progressive Student Union!

We gave these out to all the Freshmen in Thurston.

FJA and PSU at the movie screening with reps from Fair Trade Federation and Labor Rights Campaign.

Food Justice Alliance Wins Service Excellence in Sustainability

Thank you GW for your undying support this year!! We are incredibly flattered and plan to work to live up to this honor in the coming years!

Want a good laugh, at our expense?

FJA Halloween got a little kooky...

 

President, Melissa 

Vice President, Ellie 

Scribe, Sarah 

Food Justice's First Ever Salon and Feast!

Food Justice finally got their act together this weekend and actually had a FEAST. We called it a Salon though because we also had some really great conversations about food, justice, and some alliance we have. Everyone cooked wonderfully delicious foods that shared a Mexican theme--enchiladas, burritos, quesadillas, and guacamole. It was such a success, we are planning more! These salons are open to any individual who is interested in good, home cooked, healthy, hearty, food. With food, comes conversation too, we try to incorporate learning, educating, and discussion as a means to awareness. We had a great turnout this first time and hope to see some new faces!
Here is us:

You know...we were on a roller coaster.

Next Stop on the Tree Hugger Train

Today Melissa, Justin and I worked up at the GroW on the Vern Garden. We planted wild ginger, a persimmon tree, a fig tree, and five elderberry trees. Soon we will plant sea-scape strawberries.

 Planting wild ginger

 A super mossy wild ginger plant

 Unwrapping the trees

 Melissa made us turn to face into the sun, our over exaggerated reaction

 An awesome elderberry tree, check out those roots