Interested in joining our team? Growing Power is searching for an exceptional receptionist/office assistant with superb organizational and office skills. This person should understand our mission and be passionate about our cause. Growing Power cultivates an “organic” work environment where things can change any time. We are looking for someone who is up for the challenge to work in a busy, chaotic but extremely rewarding environment. We are leading the Good Food Movement and Revolution – Join us!
Three childhood friends open an urban farm in the Kinsman neighborhood with the dream of producing fresh vegetables, farm-raised Tilapia fish and jobs for inner-city residents. The founding partners of the Rid-All Green Partnership — Randall McShepard, Keymah Durden, and Damien Forshe — talk about their growing business.
Workers at the Rid-All urban farm in Cleveland had planned on building their fourth greenhouse on Saturday Nov. 19, but opted to begin work on a 1,000-watt solar station instead. “‘Keep it moving,’ that’s our motto,” sad Rid-All co-founder Damien Forshe. In this video clip, Forshe talks about getting off the grid. Dan Weaver, owner of Windsor Greenhouse in Ashtabula County talks about building greenhouses for Rid-All, and Tim Lewis of Green In The Ghetto, A Rid-All partner, talks about educating children about urban farming and eating healthy.
I appreciate that our friends have shared their honest opinions and feelings with us. I’d like to take this opportunity to share my position on the role that corporations can play in the Good Food Revolution.
The First Lady has brought national attention to our country’s poor health, poor eating habits and poor food quality with her “Let’s Move” program. Now that this issue is in the national spotlight, we are using the momentum she’s created to take the next steps forward in improving overall food quality and quality of life for all people. We, as a society, can no longer refuse to invite big corporations to the table of the Good Food Revolution. Poverty, foodlessness, joblessness: these are problems we all face. They are not only the problems of the poor or of the urban – they are everyone’s problems.
Wal-mart is the world’s largest distributor of food – there is no one better positioned to bring high-quality, locally grown food into urban food deserts and fast-food swamps. We can no longer be so idealistic that we hurt the very people we’re trying to help. Keeping groups that have the money and the power to be a significant part of the solution away from the Good Food Revolution will not serve us. At the same time, by accepting grants like these we retain the power for how corporate money is spent, and the grassroots movement stays grassroots.
Thank you for your continued support of the Good Food Revolution, and please keep your eyes open for more announcements from me and Growing Power. This is an exciting time to change the world.
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