Food Justice

Where there is hunger

By Rayla Claypool, Alison Kaiser, Aishina Shaffer, Jazmine Hawes

No one is immune to a bad month, six months or even a bad year.

The Case Manager

By Rayla Claypool, Alison Kaiser, Aishina Shaffer, Jazmine Hawes

Feeding her people

In an interview a few weeks ago, WVU Professor of Social Work Carol Amendola spoke with me about an experiential learning class that she taught over the summer. Her section was the only one to actually go out in the field, and she said that “[they] could sit in class and talk about it all day,”…

Learning from Doing

For weeks, we’ve been studying this concept of food justice. How the food systems in our country work, whom they include and exclude, what happens from farm to table, and everything in between. We could spend many more weeks talking about food justice, but some things are better learned by…

Chef Curtis catches catfish

Sabraton is a small, unincorporated community in Monongalia County, W.Va. Just a 15-minute drive out of Morgantown, the coal town has very few grocery store options.

A Save-A-Lot offers many popular food brands at discount prices. A Shop ‘n Save, about 10…