Building Sustainable Community-Based Food Programs: Cautionary Tales from The Garden

Abstract

This essay calls attention to the practical implications that community food organizers can glean from Scott Hamilton Kennedy's documentary, The Garden. More specifically, the authors examine the discursive tensions faced by the South Central Farmers as a way to make sense of their own use of dialog, policy, and health networking to build a community food initiative. The essay concludes by offering a unique metaphor-mycelium-in order to promote sustainable health practices and organize community-based food programs.

Keywords:

• Community
• Sustainability
• Participation
• Dialog
• Policy
• Network

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Acknowledgements

The authors wish to thank National Communication Association Forum, the editors of Environmental Communication, and anonymous reviewers for making this special section of PRAXIS possible and helping in the development of this manuscript.

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Notes on contributors

Marianne LeGreco

Marianne LeGreco (PhD, Arizona State University, 2007) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro

Dawn Leonard

Dawn Leonard is the Executive Director of Urban Harvest Greensboro, a non-profit organization that serves the Piedmont Triad region of North Carolina