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Community Controlled Food in October!!
Thanks to Anne Fassnacht of Wit Wisdom & Food for contributing this blog post October should be feeling a lot like fall, but it seems to be holding back a little bit. Some of our produce this month looks surprisingly like summer. Bell peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers–I am looking at you. However, the rest of the list is starting to …
CCFI in September: Fresh Food as Fall Approaches!
Thanks to Anne Fassnacht of Wit Wisdom & Food for contributing this blog post! We have passed the last holiday of summer and while we still have a few weeks until it is technically Fall, you can feel it in the air already. It is always exciting to find out what we are getting in our shares for the month! …
A Shift Towards Social Entrepreneurship
– Contributed by Dr. Stephanie Fernhaber Violence. Gentrification. Poverty. Affordable housing. Food access. These are just a few of the many social issues being faced here in Indianapolis. And, they do not seem to be going away. The traditional approach to addressing social issues involves solutions that rely heavily on grant funding. While such efforts can and do provide some …
Growing Organic Lessons in Social Entrepreneurship
I’m going to talk about what I learned about social entrepreneurship through working on the Community Controlled Food Initiative (CCFI). So, there are about a million and one things I’ve learned over the last two years with Kheprw Institute. Some of the basic things I’ve learned learned include the importance of partnerships, the need to spend time thinking constantly about strategies to …
What’s Happening with CCFI in August!?
Hard to believe it has been a month since we all got together and celebrated our community and picked up our bag of Community Controlled Food Initiative (CCFI) produce. This month is another great collection of food from local farmers. Before we get into the bounty that summer is offering us through these great farmers there are a couple housekeeping …
Get Ready for eSTEAM!
Summer in the near northwest side community is marked by the scents of charcoal and fresh cut grass, screams and laughs from children freshly out of school, and beads of sweat from the intense heat. These simple staples of summer passed me by on my daily route to and from the Kheprw Institute’s eSTEAM camp last summer, where eager children …
Voyage Along the Horizon Between the United States and Brazil
I arrived in Salvador a 21-year old black male, raised by the Indianapolis community that created me, to embark on a journey to discover lessons from another chapter of the African Diaspora. I arrived with a backpack of journals and cameras and a large duffle bag filled with clothes inappropriate for the tropical weather. I was drenched in sweat within …
The Road So Far
I Just turn 20 recently, and the brief time before and after I became of age, there has been a swell of changes in my life. One of the most prominent is my recent enrollment into IUPUI. Today marks my sixth week in college, and oh boy have there been some lessons. When I started my goal to get into …
MARIANETTE
Republished with permission from gaylecosby.wordpress.com __ Dear Reader, Did you know that Marian University now owns a lot more land than it used to? That’s right. Indianapolis Public Schools transferred several acres of land surrounding Cold Spring School last week to Marian University. This acreage included lots of natural habitat along the river as well as three buildings, one of which is the beautiful …