Earth to Tables Legacies

Deborah Barndt is professor emerita in the faculty of Environmental and Urban Change at York University in Toronto. A social justice activist, artist, and popular educator, her photographs have been published and exhibited widely, and her books include Tangled Routes: Women, Work, and Globalization on the Tomato Trail and edited volumes VIVA! Community Arts and Popular Education in the Americas, Wild Fire: Art as Activism, and Women Working the NAFTA Food Chain (deborahbarndt.com).Lauren E. Bakerhas more than twenty years of experience working on food systems issues with the Global Alliance for the Future of Food, the Toronto Food Policy Council, Sustain Ontario, and the People’s Food Institute. With a PhD on maize social movements in Mexico, she has taught at the University of Toronto and Toronto Metropolitan University. Her books include Balancing the Scales: True Cost Accounting for Food and Corn Meets Maize (laurenbaker.ca).Alexandra Gelis is a Colombian-Venezuelan-Canadian artist based in Toronto who works collaboratively with communities around the globe. Her widely exhibited installations are featured in a recent book, Alexandra Gelis: Seeds. She is completing her PhD at York University on the relationship between people, plants, and power in the context of colonization and globalization, culminating in a major multimedia exhibit: Living-With : Migrant Relations (https://www.alexandragelis.com/).

• Foreword Introduction Naming the Moment The Moment Exposes an Unsustainable and Unjust Food System The Moment Offers a Portal to Food Justice The Moment for Online Multimedia Education Naming the Project: Earth to Tables Legacies Naming Our Process: Cocreating with All Our Relations Naming the Chapters: An Overview and Synthesis PART I: Greetings and GratitudeChapter 1: The Thanksgiving Address: Greetings and Thanks Introduction to Thanksgiving Address Continuing the Conversation with Molly Anderson PART II: Setting the TableChapter 2: Navigating Dynamic Tensions on Common Waters: The Broader Context of Our Legacies ConversationsKnowledge Tensions: Eurocentric versus Indigenous Knowledges Earth or Food Tensions: Corporate Food Regime versus Food Sovereignty Movement Justice or Equity Tensions: Intersectional Identities and Power Political Tensions: Capitalism, Colonization, and Reconciliation Chapter 3: Pollinating Relationships: Our Collaborative MethodologyChapter 4: Digging In: Facilitating Dialogue and ActionWalking the Talk: Introduction to Facilitator GuidesPART III: StorytellersChapter 5: Stories of the StorytellersMeet the StorytellersMeet the Production TeamOur Food IconsOur Migration StoriesPART IV: ConversationsChapter 6: Ways of KnowingPhoto Essay: Haudenosaunee Gifts: Contributions to Our Past and Common FuturePhoto Essay: Language and Food: A Worldview in Verbs Continuing the Conversation with Dr. Lorna Wanosts’a7 WilliamsPhoto Essay: Medicinal Plants in the P’urépecha CosmovisionContinuing the Conversation with Amber AdamsPhoto Essay: Mutual Nurturing: Reweaving Community with Our Elders Continuing the Conversation with Monique MojicaChapter 7: EarthPhoto Essay: Mother’s Milk: The Original FoodContinuing the Conversation with Penny Van EsterikContinuing the Conversation with Laura SolisVideo: The Soil Is AliveContinuing the Conversation with Gilberto AboitesVideo: The Alchemy of AgroecologyContinuing the Conversation with Harriet FriedmannPhoto Essay: The Animal Food Cycle: We Feed Them, and They Feed UsContinuing the Conversation with Fred MetallicChapter 8: JusticePhoto Essay: Promoting Organic Agriculture in Mexico: From Urban Gardens to Multinational Companies Continuing the Conversation with Samantha TrumbullVideo: Why Farmers Markets?Continuing the Conversation with María Blas, Fulvio Gioanetto, Valiana Aguilar, and Ángel KúContinuing the Conversation with Anan Lololi and Selam TecluPhoto Essay: Food Justice and Urban Agriculture in ActionVideo: Black Creek Community Farm: Healing the Community Continuing the Conversation with Karen WashingtonVideo: Who Will Feed Us? The Farm Labour Crisis Meets the Climate Crisis Continuing the Conversation with Gilberto AboitesChapter 9: TablesPhoto Essay: From the Mush Hole to the Everlasting Tree School: Colonial Food Legacies among the Haudenosaunee Continuing the Conversation with Lorraine Johnson Continuing the Conversation with Fulvio GioanettoPhoto Essay: La Comida: The Core of Food Sovereignty Continuing the Conversation with Claudia SerratoHaudenosaunee Primer: 3 videosVideo: Getting to Know Us Continuing the Conversation with Patty LoewVideo: Living with Your Mother Continuing the Conversation with Tim LeDucVideo: Life in the Longhouse Continuing the Conversation with Kiera (Kaia’tanó:ron) Brant-BirioukovPhoto Essay: Cooking and Eating Together: From the Kitchen Table to the Community Meal Continuing the Conversation with Joshna MaharajAcknowledgments: Greetings and GratitudeBibliography

Folklorists interested in any cultural form, not just foodways, will find much to learn from and to contemplate in this volume. The stories themselves illustrate the wealth of knowledge and wisdom held by Indigenous peoples—and the obstacles posed by traditional Eurocentric mind-sets—that can help to rebuild healthier relationships with others and with the Earth through our food.