OK, so I haven’t posted in a while… but I wanted to just give a little personal update on my life and then next I'll share some observations from talking with some producers here in Maine.
It’s official! I am graduate student at Tufts University in Boston! Classes start in September. I sat in on a class last week and I kind of felt like the ugly duckling when she sees herself flying with a flock of swans.
In the end of April I finished up my work with Food First- keep posted for some excerpts of my research there- and then my roommate and I took a trip down the coast to Big Sur and up to La Honda. Beautiful Beautiful Beautiful. Then I flew out to Minnesota to look at a school there and met Ken Meter with Crossroads Resource Center and Corinne Rafferty with the Institute for Agricultural Trade Policy- Both really awesome organizations doing some phenomenal work. From there I went to Boston and fell in love with the school, the city (well, for a city, you know), the people, the thick Boston accents. And up to Maine where I have been visiting my family. You all know I’m pretty much a big sap so I’ve been head over heals for my parents maple syrup, Flossie’s raw milk and fresh butter (and mom’s fish chowder), I made cheese with a farmer in Troy and spent a morning with an oyster farmer, though we couldn’t harvest the oysters due to recent heavy rains. I also got to make fresh pesto and gnocchi with my nephew which was pretty fun.
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About Me
- Ellen Parry Tyler
- Boston, MA, United States
- I am currently a master’s candidate in the Agriculture, Food and Environment program at Tufts University, and am particularly interested in adaptation to sea-level rise and climate change. One thing I have learned is that I am not alone in this quest. Everywhere now attitudes are beginning to shift as environmental concerns force people to recognize that we must be stewards of the land, and recent spikes in food prices are raising questions about what it means to have an equitable democratic society. Now, for the first time in our nation’s history, consumers, farmers, processors and distributors, big and small, are sitting down together in food policy councils and other community organizations to address how best to rebuild our food system around a shared vision of equitable access to healthy food. My own work within this movement has inspired me to see the potential of community organizing. It has also showed me that some food-systems issues are beyond the scope of what any individual civic group can hope to change.
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