Everybody Eats

Everybody Eats tells the story of food justice in Greensboro, North Carolina—a midsize city in the southern United States. The city's residents found themselves in the middle of conversations about food insecurity and justice when they reached the top of the Food Research and Action Center's list of major cities experiencing food hardship. Greensboro's local food communities chose to confront these high rates of food insecurity by engaging neighborhood voices, mobilizing creative resources at the community level, and sustaining conversations across the local food system. Within three years of reaching the peak of FRAC's list, Greensboro saw an 8 percent drop in its food hardship rate and moved from first to fourteenth in FRAC's list. Using eight case studies of food justice activism, from urban farms to mobile farmers markets, shared kitchens to food policy councils, Everybody Eats highlights the importance of communication—and communicating social justice specifically—in building the kinds of infrastructure needed to create secure and just food systems.

Marianne LeGreco, PhD, is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.

Niesha Douglas, EdD, is Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Health, Physical and Secondary Education at Fayetteville State University, Fayetteville, North Carolina.

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Overview

Part I   The Language of Food (In)Security 
1. Navigating the Language of Food Systems
2. Tracing the Discourses of Food (In)Security

Part II   Engaging Communities: Case Studies
3. The Warnersville Community Food Task Force
4. The Downtown Greensboro Food Truck Pilot Project

Part III   Mobilizing Resources: Case Studies
5. The Warnersville Community Garden
6. The Mobile Oasis Farmers Market

Part IV    Documenting Process :Case Studies
7. Ethnosh
8. Kitchen Connects GSO

Part V    Sustaining Conversations: Case Studies
9. The Guilford Food Council
10. The Renaissance Community Co-op

Conclusion Securing Food for a Just Future

Appendix A: Warnersville Community
Food Task Force Project Concept

Appendix B: Blank Model Partner Wheel 

Appendix C: Mobile Oasis Recipes
by Anita Cunningham 

Appendix D: Guilford Food Council Charter

Selected Bibliography
Index
About the Authors and Contributors