Awareness Months and Holidays

Day of Remembrance – Japanese Internment During WWII and the Impact on Washington State Food Systems

By Erin CazelOn February 19, 1942, in response to the bombing at Pearl Harbor and increasing levels of wartime fear mongering, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed into effect Executive Order 9066. Also referred to as the Exclusion Act, this order resulted in the incarceration of over 120,000 people of Japanese ancestry living on the West […]

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Native American Heritage Month

  By Kana Ogaki The Pacific Northwest, land of Coast Salish peoples, is one of the epicenters of indigenous food sovereignty movements in the US. Revitalizing traditional knowledge, foodways, and food systems is one way to support holistic health and wellbeing. Indigenous ecological philosophy includes the physical, mental, social, and spiritual components of health in harmony […]

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