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Center Stage E. 9th Street Community Garden & #OccupyTheFoodSuppy Event and March to Liberty Park Sunday, December 4, 2011.
Sunday December 4 was Occupy Food Day here in the Big Apple and it was one of the most heart warming experiences in this happy journey of #OccupyWallStreet thus far.
While I have watched OWS grow from its first day, there have been soo many years of battling the destructive forces of agribusiness and toxic gmo that it sometimes seemed the word of Factory Farming and Monsanto privatizing would never reach into the streets.
The initial gathering was at the E. 9th Street Community Garden, which is a gem I've known about for about 7 years.
They have been a community leader in advocating for food equality and Community Supported Agriculture, Seeds to Supper and SOS Food Programs since 1995 and the space is amazing.
It's what all communities should have, shared space for learning, growing welcoming farmers and consumers to gather and celebrate the miracles of harvest and security of communal connectivity.
For the discussion I'd be happy to go into any areas of corporatism that pose a problem for a healthful, sustainable food supply.
But for now it's a rare moment of pure appreciation and pictures to mark the day when focus on food broke out into the streets in a new way and perhaps soon the corporate media may follow.
For all the farmers who came from Maine to North Dakota, the Hudson Valley and Tri-State area to march with Occupy Food and all who Occupy our Farmers Markets in NYC all the time, thank you all for growing the food and marching to save it.
It makes all the difference in the world to have feet in the streets and a physical presence.
Maybe what will stay with me most of all is the seed sharing event at Liberty Park when the day ended.
Heirloom seeds were shared so that their lineage can be preserved, but it will be the first crop of OccupyWallStreet varieties ripe for harvest in the spring, lucky us, growing Independence with a little love and some dirt!!
