PeaceMeal was also featured on the Killam Fellowships website in the Summer 2012 Newsletter this month. Flip to page 4 to read the full article!
PeaceMeal was featured in Voices from the Frontlines this week onPeacexPeace (“peace by peace”).
You can check out the article here:
http://www.peacexpeace.org/2012/07/two-women-seek-to-cultivate-peace-through-food/
According to its web site:
Peace X Peace is the international organization that lifts and multiplies women’s voices, strengthens women’s capacity to connect across divides, promotes leadership and gender equity, and nurtures a global network of peacebuilders in 120 countries.
Voices from the Frontline features “first-person accounts of what is happening around the world, how it impacts women, and how women are building cultures of peace.”
We are honored to be a part of this movement, and hope that our humble efforts with PeaceMeal can contribute to the growing culture of peace.
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In a world of increasing individualism and a widely-perpetuated myth of scarcity, a wave of people and projects are recolonizing spaces to encourage service, celebrate abundance, and to foster and practise generosity. This post was drawn from content on The Global Oneness Project, the Karma Kitchen, and the Seva Cafe websites.
Imagine a restaurant where there are no prices on the menu and where the check reads $0.00 with only this footnote: “Your meal was a gift from someone who came before you. To keep the chain of gifts alive, we invite you to pay it forward for those who dine after you.”
That’s Karma Kitchen, a volunteer-driven experiment in generosity.
There’s maybe nothing better, in my humble opinion, than making food among friends. The process of working together, cooperating to get something accomplished, tasting, adding, sharing kitchen wisdom, problem-solving, and the inevitable laughter and conversation that comes from it all is deeply satisfying and brings me a sense of personal peace I find in very few other places.
On Wednesday, July 11, I attended my first session as a member of the community supported orchard of the West End Food Co-op‘s Community Cannery. This project is a unique feature of the emerging Toronto-based food co-operative, and an empowering concept in the wake of disappearing canneries across the country.
At the end of June, I went to Montreal for a conference on Studies in Co-operation and Co-operative Education, and was so fortunate to squeeze in some visits to food organizations in the city. Loaded down with overnight bag and conference presentation materials, I headed on foot from the train station directly to Santropol Roulant, a 17-year-old meals-on-wheels service located in the Plateau neighbourhood of Montreal.
What does this have to do with peace? Continue reading
