1. Eat Me: Altering Our Perceptions to Taste through the Growth of Food Activism

2. What types of social movements are making change in the agricultural community?
In what ways is the practice of “alternative agriculture” healing communities?

3. ILC Objectives
I will read Another Politics: Talking Across Today’s Transformative Movements by Chris Dixon and Food For Change: The Politics and Values of Social Movements by Jeff Pratt
After creating an understanding for social movement organization, I will use this information as my base to analyze food movements as well as writing about my findings in my final paper.
I will research the creation of social movements based on organization, ideology, and strategic planning.
How do we create change that works outside of institutional practices in the hopes of transforming said institutions?

4. I will read Spaces of Danger and Food Transgressions: Making Sense of Contemporary Food Politics.
I will write a research paper that applies my understanding of social movements to an analysis of food movements.
I will research the short history of global food movements and their critics and advocates in the United States.
How is identity valued within different social food movements? Are there agricultural systems or eating habits that are void of racism and violence?

5. Social Food Movements: Reclaiming Identity through Community Gardens
Anti-authoritarian organization
Slow Food versus community gardens
Reproductive labor and place making

6. Upon facing structural forms of violence, a collective that can grow and heal together has the potential for heightened consciousness and understanding of their collective grief under the oppressive power structures. In healing together, the traumas experienced under similar forms of oppression become the backbone for the movement's work. Healing as an oppressed community requires the restoration of a sense of self, one that is autonomous and not defined by the oppressor.

7. I will attend bi-weekly practical farm workshops with Dave’s SOS and research astrology and biodynamic farming by reading biodynamic calendars and food articles.
I will write reflections on each workshop I attend and begin collecting materials for the proof of concept calendar while staying contact with possible contributors.
I will spend time focusing on activities that are related to farming and community involvement.
In what ways can students improve the ways that they engage with their academic research? In what ways can we share knowledge with others that uplifts our learning community?

8. Subjectivity Tasting lab responses Reflective writing
Writing about trauma
Thinking about trauma
Being consumed by trauma
Responses to seminar
Responses to farm workshops
Tea-tasting responses
Making lunch based on reading themes
“the writing does you more than you do it”
Interviews
Case studies
Story telling
Becoming the subject
Making connections with old photos

9. Farm, art, astrology

10. What’s next POF Working on biodynamic calendar
Continuing to study community development
Eventually returning to my paper with field research and interviews