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Farming For Justice with Maurice Small, Strategist
Maurice Small, Food Strategist, works in communities of low wealth to make sure they are able to activate the wealth they have internally and that they have around them. Maurice provides tools communities need to have great food access, food health and food awareness.
Maurice Small is an independent consultant with 25 years of experience in urban/ rural food systems development, youth entrepreneurship training, and soil creation. Maurice inherited his profound respect and love for the earth from his parents. This love for natural process and growth nurtures his strong desire to build community as he teaches and cultivates regional visions for sustainable agriculture, healthy lifestyles in underserved communities & urban/rural collaboration between growers and vendors. His work to address the development of a more sustainable regional food system began in Northeast Ohio in 1988 with vacant lot reclamation, community garden creation, work with local after-school programs and volunteering with organizations to cultivate urban local food production.
His current contract work in North America address's urban and rural food system creation, food justice awareness programming and urban/peri urban soil production with worms.
This interview was on recorded on March 9, 2015 with the permission of The City of Cleveland, Department of Public Works at the Rockefeller Park Greenhouse opened in 1905 at 750 E 88th St., in Cleveland, Ohio 44108. Phone: 216-664-3103
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Photo by Betsey Merkel.
Visit www.i-open.org/research/farming-for-justice-with-maurice-...
Farming For Justice with Maurice Small, Strategist
Maurice Small, Food Strategist, works in communities of low wealth to make sure they are able to activate the wealth they have internally and that they have around them. Maurice provides tools communities need to have great food access, food health and food awareness.
Maurice Small is an independent consultant with 25 years of experience in urban/ rural food systems development, youth entrepreneurship training, and soil creation. Maurice inherited his profound respect and love for the earth from his parents. This love for natural process and growth nurtures his strong desire to build community as he teaches and cultivates regional visions for sustainable agriculture, healthy lifestyles in underserved communities & urban/rural collaboration between growers and vendors. His work to address the development of a more sustainable regional food system began in Northeast Ohio in 1988 with vacant lot reclamation, community garden creation, work with local after-school programs and volunteering with organizations to cultivate urban local food production.
His current contract work in North America address's urban and rural food system creation, food justice awareness programming and urban/peri urban soil production with worms.
This interview was on recorded on March 9, 2015 with the permission of The City of Cleveland, Department of Public Works at the Rockefeller Park Greenhouse opened in 1905 at 750 E 88th St., in Cleveland, Ohio 44108. Phone: 216-664-3103
Connect with I-Open at:
• Web www.i-open.org/
• Facebook www.facebook.com/pages/I-Open/170817416694?ref=ts
• Flickr www.flickr.com/photos/iopen/sets/72157625496398558/
• Livestream www.livestream.com/iopen/
• Scribd www.scribd.com/I-Open
• Slideshare www.slideshare.net/IOpen2
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• Tumblr i-open.tumblr.com/
• Twitter twitter.com/iopen2
• You Tube www.youtube.com/iopen2
• Vimeo vimeo.com/iopen2
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