Dreaming Stone Arts and Ecology Center warmly invites you to join us for the day-long training, Building Racial Equity in Land, Food, and Health Systems, led by Community Food Strategies. This training is geared toward community leaders, educators, and people working in the food system. This will be a chance to look at how racial inequity is perpetuated by institutional and structural systems and is normalized to the extent of being nearly invisible, how our country’s agricultural system has an unacknowledged debt to Black, Indigenous, and people of color, as well as building understanding around historical and current impacts of structural racism on our food and agricultural systems.

Participants will learn about best practices and challenges around engaging racial equity personally, institutionally, and culturally.

Community Food Strategies is a hub for local food councils and individuals across North Carolina who want to grow their voices through food. As a multi-organizational team of food system experts, they work to support and develop North Carolina’s food councils through trainings, tools, and structured network building. Their mission is to inspire connections and amplify collective action so that community voices are heard and food policy shifts toward more equitable outcomes. For more information, visit:https://communityfoodstrategies.org/

The training meets at 382 Pleasant Hill Rd., Rutherfordton, NC 28139, Saturday, February 11, 2023, from 10:00 am to 4:00pm. Lunch is provided to participants.

Visit dreamingstone.org to register, as space is limited to 35 participants.

Dreaming Stone Arts and Ecology Center (DSAEC) is a learning and cultural center building strategies for community resilience and propagating cultural and biological diversity. We are creating a more healthy and just future, in service to our watershed, in honor of our ancestors, and on behalf of future generations.