Anne Cody to Speak at Williams College about Urban Latino Food Systems

Media contact: Noelle Lemoine, communications assistant; tele: (413) 597-4277; email: [email protected]

WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., November 7, 2014—Anne Cody, who runs a grassroots urban agriculture organization in Holyoke, Mass., will present “Culturally Relevant Produce and the Urban Latino Food System” at Williams College on Tuesday, Nov. 11. This event will take place in the Paresky Auditorium at 7:30 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

Cody is director of operations at Nuestras Raices, which serves as a model for developing sustainable agriculture and green cities through its support of community gardeners and urban farmers. Nuestras Raices, which means “our roots” in Spanish, was founded in 1992 by migrating farmers from Puerto Rico who developed South Holyoke’s first community garden on what had been an abandoned lot.

Today the organization has a network of 10 community gardens and more than 100 member families, as well as other programming for the Holyoke community. Cody’s talk at Williams will focus on how Nuestras Raices helps meet the demand for cultural crops, facilitates their presence in schools and institutional kitchens, establishes price points, and addresses food insecurity.

This event is part of Latino Heritage Month. It is co-sponsored by the Sustainable Food & Agriculture Program, The Davis Center, and VISTA.

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Published November 7, 2014