Welcome to our journey to Eating Consciously. The goal of this journey is to learn together the impact our food choices have on others & the environment.
We have an amazing team of people who have volunteered to share their knowledge and guide us on the journey. Let’s meet them! Thanks to everyone for making this possible.
Welcome to our Podcast!
Welcome to our Podcast Eating Consciously! We are glad you are here. We are hosting conversations with our neighbors about our food choices and how they impact each other. Would you like to be interviewed or would you like to do an interview? Let us know by emailing us at jbwkjc@gmail.com.
Eating Consciously Podcast: Shane Bellinger interviews Jacqui Edans of Rooster Head Farms
Welcome to our third podcast in the Eating Consciously series. In this episode, Shane Bellinger, owner of Green Go Cleaning and member of the Eating Consciously team interviews Jacqui Edans of Rooster Head Farms in Brevard, NC. Our last episode was focused on systemic racism which included a conversation on factory meat operations. This episode shows another side of the meat industry on a different scale. Eating Consciously focuses on the impact our food choices have on others. This episode continues to educate towards that goal. Thanks for being here. We hope you enjoy the show. Many thanks to Shane and Jacqui for sharing this conversation with us. Farmer Jacqui Shane with her family
Eating Consciously Podcast: Systemic racism and how I participate
John and I have decided we need to learn how we support systemic racism. We decided to start by looking at our food choices and that led us to ask a team of individuals in our community if they would help us learn about the impact of our food choices have on others. We also asked if they could guide us based on their expertise. Thus started the project Eating Consciously. We decided to start a podcast with the project as a way to bring people closer together in our socially-distanced world. This is the second episode of the podcast and it goes over an hour. I interviewed Naeema Muhummad of the NC Environmental Justice Network. It was a tough interview to do. The stories she tells, and there are many, are hard to hear. Every part of the interview touched me and it made it difficult to cut out parts of the conversation. It is well worth a listen, in my humble [...]
Eating Consciously Podcast! Enjoy our first episode with Evan Parker
Help us celebrate as we kick off our first podcast! We have started a new project called Eating Consciously and we are kicking it off by releasing our first podcast. Our first guest is Evan Parker and he is a member of the Eating Consciously team that is helping us learn the impact our food choices have on others. We really enjoyed the conversation with Evan and look forward to many more. Thanks Evan! This Podcast, Eating Consciously was recorded July 5, 2020. Evan Parker was interviewed by Kim Coram and John Wiseman. We hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did.
Looking for some local resources?
Writings
The Veganuary Pledge
Are you looking for a New Year's Resolution? How about taking the Veganuary challenge? Here is what it says on their website: Since 2014, Veganuary has inspired and supported more than one [...]
Kathryn Parker shares an amazing podcast
Kathryn Parker of our Eating Consciously team shared an amazing podcast I have listened to twice and will probably listen to again. It was a fascinating conversation about communication and applies to [...]
Plant-based locally prepared and commercially available food just got a few steps closer to being a reality
Last Thursday on our Moving to Conservers conference call, we enjoyed a conversation with 2 individuals interested in providing plant-based meals in our community. We talked about goals and obstacles towards reaching [...]
Let’s talk about locally made plant-based meals this Thursday at 6 pm
Thanks to the many people who have shared their thoughts about a community conversation focused on locally prepared plant-based meals. We have had a fantastic response. Let's get together on a conference [...]
A conversation about plant-based locally prepared meals
We have asked over the past couple of newsletters if folks are interested in having a conversation about creating locally prepared plant-based meals. A lot of folks have completed our little survey [...]
Vegan Learning Library
Hello Moving to Conservers! As somebody dedicated to cultivating sustainability, I can say that I am massively impressed by this group. My favorite definition of sustainability is “the possibility that human and [...]
NCEJN’s 22nd Annual Environmental Justice Summit (2020) registration open
Registration is open for the summit! Looks like a great event. John and I have enrolled and are looking forward to learning together. I took the following from their website: We Can’t [...]
There is definitely an interest in our community for prepared plant-based meals
Thanks to everyone who responded to our question about providing plant-based meals in our community. We had a great response! We would love to have a community conversation on the topic and [...]
Why focus on zero-waste when there are so many more pressing issues?
At one of our potluck events (I sure do miss those), someone said to me, "Why so much focus on zero-waste? There are more pressing issues." I have thought of that a [...]
Eating Consciously Podcast: Shane Bellinger interviews Jacqui Edans of Rooster Head Farms
Welcome to our third podcast in the Eating Consciously series. In this episode, Shane Bellinger, owner of Green Go Cleaning and member of the Eating Consciously team interviews Jacqui Edans of [...]
New York Times article about sending our plastic to Africa and a carbon footprint quiz
Big Oil Is in Trouble. Its Plan: Flood Africa With Plastic. Faced with plunging profits and a climate crisis that threatens fossil fuels, the industry is demanding a trade deal that weakens [...]
We need more community food scrap drop-off sites. Interested? We will help
Growing food usually requires soil. Nutrients in the soil get used up when we grow food and luckily for us, an easy way to rebuild the soil is through making compost. We [...]