Elizabeth Henderson, farmer, writer, and agrarian leader discusses food justice issues.

Did you know that agriculture is not sustainable without fair wages? Join Food Sleuth Radio host and Registered Dietitian, Melinda Hemmelgarn, for her interview with Elizabeth Henderson, award-winning farmer, writer, activist, and agrarian leader best known for her decades of support of and contributions to organic and sustainable agriculture. She is a founding member of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of New York (NOFA-NY) and has been a pioneer of the CSA model in the United States. She is committed to resisting the many injustices of a cheap food system through the power of cooperation. She’s the author of Sharing the Harvest: A Citizen’s Guide to Community Supported Agriculture;  and a core leader of the Agricultural Justice Project.

Related website:  Agricultural Justice Project and certification: https://www.agriculturaljusticeproject.org/en/
Elizabeth Henderson papers at U. of MA – Amherst: http://findingaids.library.umass.edu/ead/mums746
Real Organic Project interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MA26cX2i9lg 
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