Digging Deeper: Climate Change with FoodWhat?!
2024-10-02 11:00 - 11:45 (America/Los_Angeles)
Dig Deeper with Digging In! Digging In is SAFSF’s first documentary film, produced by Nathan.works and underwritten by the Vatheuer Family Foundation, and was designed as a tool for funders and their grantees to explore the wide-ranging challenges of land access, consolidation and concentration, and climate change on U.S. agriculture. The film uplifts on-the-ground perspectives and solutions across the country.

Join us for our second installment of Digging Deeper, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat, focused on climate change. We will dive deeper into the role philanthropy can play in combating climate change. Our guest speaker Kellee Matsushita-Tseng Land Stewardship Manager at FoodWhat?! will be joining us to share their perspective and expertise.

This 45-minute session is designed for you to enjoy on or off-screen and learn from field leaders. Recordings of the Digging Deeper series will be used in a multi-media discussion guide, which will be published in early 2025.

Recording

Speaker:

KELLEE MATSUSHITA-TSENG (they/she)Land Stewardship Manager, FoodWhat?!Former Young Farmer Board Member, National Young Farmers Coalition

Kellee is a yonsei, 4th generation queer japanese-chinese american, living and farming on unceded territory of the Awas-was speaking Uypi-tribe. Kellee joined the Food, What?! team in 2023 with over a decade of both farming and education experience, with special love for connecting people to seed stewardship. In addition to their work with youth at Food What?!, Kellee works to build seed sovereignty movements as a means of cultivating community power and organizes with a collective of AAPI farmers and organizers across the country, called Second Generation Seeds, which preserves, improves, and breeds crops significant to communities of the Asian diaspora. Kellee is a founding member of Bitter Cotyledons, a collective of queer and trans asian americans that cultivates creative resilience through ancestral foodways and community.

Prior to joining Food What?!, Kellee worked as an instructor and assistant farm garden manager at the UCSC Center for Agroecology Farm, and served on the board of directors at the National Young Farmers Coalition. Kellee has over two decades of experience working and organizing in community, with a background in youth empowerment, community education, and advocacy for racial justice and equity in sustainable farming.

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Digging Deeper: Climate Change with Practical Farmers of Iowa
2024-10-16 11:00 - 11:45
Dig Deeper with Digging In! Digging In is SAFSF’s first documentary film, produced by Nathan.works and underwritten by the Vatheuer Family Foundation, and was designed as a tool for funders and their grantees to explore the wide-ranging challenges of land access, consolidation and concentration, and climate change on U.S. agriculture. The film uplifts on-the-ground perspectives and solutions across the country.

Join us for our third installment of Digging Deeper, a lunchtime condensed documentary screening and chat, focused on climate change. We will dive deeper into the role philanthropy can play in combating climate change. Our guest speaker Martha McFarland, Practical Farmers of Iowa‘s Senior Farmland Viability Coordinator will join us to share her perspective and expertise.

This 45-minute session is designed for you to enjoy on or off-screen and learn from field leaders. Recordings of the Digging Deeper series will be used in a multi-media discussion guide, which will be published in early 2025.

Recording

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Speaker:

Martha McFarland joined Practical Farmers of Iowa (PFI) staff in 2022 as the senior farmland viability coordinator. In this role, she supports land seekers and landowners with land access and farm transition assistance and resources. Martha has been a farmer member of PFI since 2014. Martha also runs Hawkeye Buffalo & Cattle Ranch near Fredericksburg, Iowa, where she manages grazing on woods and pasture, raises oats and hay and works with a tenant who raises corn and soybeans. Her experience with her farm’s transition and her love of the Iowa landscape inspired her to help the next generation of farmers and landowners. Prior to running the ranch, Martha spent 10 years working in education and mentoring beginning teachers. She has served on the Minnesota Bison Association’s board of directors and a mentor and facilitator for the Women, Food and Agriculture Network. She holds a Master of Education from Colorado State University.
