🌱 Are you a community gardener, urban grower, small-scale niche farmer, student, or simply interested in urban agriculture? Join us at one of the USDA Farm Service Agency Urban Agriculture Informational Sessions! 🔗 Register now: forms.office.com/pages/response…

“Mothers experience negative mental health impacts due to household food insecurity, especially if they are the ones going without food or using a sizable portion of it." -- Sarah Misyak of Virginia Tech CALS More about the study: news.vt.edu/articles/2024/…

🗣️ Don't miss out! Join us for our final live Zoom Q&A this Friday at 9 am ET! Proposals are due August 19th. Secure your spot now➡️ virginiatech.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Check this feature about the work of Center Fellow Sarah Misyak!

What fuels agrarian unrest in post-2011 Tunisia? What positions do peasant and rural women occupy during these contentious moments? My new open-access paper for Antipode explores these questions.

Call For Proposals: AFSA invites Interested candidates to submit their proposals by 31st August 2024 for an Evaluation of AFSA’s Healthy Soil Healthy Food Project afsafrica.org/call-for-propo…

Our August newsblast is out! Enjoy :) vabeginningfarmer.alce.vt.edu/news.html

Check out the Center team earlier this week in Detroit! Thrilled to be contributing to #urbanagriculture in Virginia and beyond!

Urban ag is helping to transform the food system as we know it & VA is on the front lines of that effort. Check out this grant opportunity from our friends Center for Food Systems & Community Transformation, VSU College of AG's SFOP & partners. Proposal deadline: 8/19. tinyurl.com/yuc5ydb3

Come saw hi and celebrate community Happily Natural Fest! (@brothermanifest)!

We are celebrating our 5-year anniversary! Join us on 9/6 from 4-6pm on the VT campus. Enjoy a lively event with partners, delicious refreshments, & the Food Moments exhibit! Virginia Tech CALS Mike Gutter Virginia Tech News VT School of Plant and Environmental Sciences Virginia Tech ALCE Food Studies at Virginia Tech Virginia Tech Food Science & Technology Department lnkd.in/gZBW6KJm

Next Week! Join us virtually for our Center Fellows Speaker Series with Amyrose Foll, Founder of Virginia Free Farm 🧺🫐 September 18, 3 pm ET. The link for registration can be found below, or scan the QR code in the flyer. Hope to see you there! virginiatech.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

TOMORROW! Join us either virtually or in person for our Center Fellows Speaker Series with our very own Dr. Pratyoosh Kashyap 👏🌾 virginiatech.zoom.us/meeting/regist…

Get ready for our next Center Fellow Speaker Series coming on November 12 from 12:30-1:30pm! 🥕 The link to register for the event can be found below, as well as in the attached flyer. We hope to see you there! tinyurl.com/CFSCTNovFellow…

TOMORROW! This is going to be a fantastic talk with our incredible speakers, so be sure to register!

The Center Fellows Speaker Series has RETURNED! We have speakers from February to May, with registration for all sessions available now. They can be accessed by copying and pasting the tinyURL links found below in the flyer. We hope to see you there!

We invite you to join us for our first Center Fellow Speaker Series Presentation of the year! With us will be Adam Taylor, Manager of the Catawba Sustainability Center. This event is on February 26, from 2:00-3:00pm. We hope to see you there!

The CFSCT is stepping away from this platform. Stay connected with us on our listserv, LinkedIn, Facebook, and our new Instagram page which will be linked below! 🌾🫂📢 #CFSCT #StayConnected Center for Food Systems and Community Transformation (@cfsct_vt) - Instagram