The 1 1/2 hour discussion will begin this Sunday June 7th at 8pm ET. We hope you can come out! All are welcome to join the chat, just please announce yourself at the beginning by telling everyone your name and affiliations, and use the #sustagchat tag on your tweets in order to create a searchable dialog. A helpful program to use is Tweetchat — enter the room “sustagchat” and #sustagchat will show up on all your posts automatically. You are welcome to send questions and comments to our moderator, @sustagchat.

Moderating this week will be me (@civileater), mostly via the @sustagchat moniker. You can read more about me down below this post in my bio. I do hope you will join us in the chat this week!

Please feel free to send some ideas our way, but here’s some food for thought to get the chat rolling –

Q1. What are the models where you see urban ag working? Is there a possibility for feeding cities with urban agriculture? Can urban ag address the disparities of urban food deserts?

Q2. Are you growing more of your own food this year? Were you inspired by the White House garden, or was the movement already afoot?

Q3. What are the barriers to entry around urban ag? What would you like to see happen in order for more people to get growing and more cities gaining access to this resource?

We can swap stories, discuss how-tos, and the creative ways you are implementing urban agriculture in your communities. Looking forward!

The 1 1/2 hour discussion will begin this Sunday June 7th at 8pm ET. We hope you can come out! All are welcome to join the chat, just please announce yourself at the beginning by telling everyone your name and affiliations, and use the #sustagchat tag on your tweets in order to create a searchable dialog. A helpful program to use is Tweetchat — enter the room “sustagchat” and #sustagchat will show up on all your posts automatically. You are welcome to send questions and comments to our moderator, @sustagchat.

Moderating this week will be me (@civileater), mostly via the @sustagchat moniker.  You can read more about me down below this post in my bio. I do hope you will join us in the chat this week. Last week was so positive and productive!

Please feel free to send some ideas our way, but here’s some food for thought to get the chat rolling –

Q1. What do you do in your community to engage people on food issues? Are you a CSA member, chef, writer, community gardener, advocate, farmer’s market patron, or do you participate in some other community food affairs?

Q2.  Are you a farmer/value added producer? How are you connecting with you buyers? Has this changed in the last few years?

Q3. Do you have idea for your community that you would like to implement? What is standing in your way?

Q4. Has connecting with your community through food changed it?

We can swap stories, discuss how-tos, and the creative ways you are connecting through food. Looking forward!

Moderating this week will be Meredith Modzelewski (@meredithmo). Here is some more info about her:

Meredith Modzelewski, a former corporate healthcare & pharmaceutical public relations professional, said “no thanks” to all that a year ago. Now, a self-styled gastronome, she communicates and advocates toward a safe, healthy, and sustainable food system. Modzelewski is into sustainable agriculture, local food, permaculture, and slow you-name-it: she currently helps organize a CSA and is working to get a new food co-op off the ground in her neighborhood in Brooklyn, NY.

Here’s some food for thought for the chat –

Q1. Food is a very important part of popular culture. Are the ways food is discussed, presented and used in popular culture changing? Or, how would you like to see it change?

Q2. Did you watch The Goode Family last week? Was it funny or did you find it more of a mockery? How do we feel about the way food issues are being covered in popular media? Are there important issues that you think are not getting covered?

Q3. Food, Inc. begins with a ride through a grocery store, and explores the kinds of imagery on the various products there. How do images of nostalgia help or hurt the sustainable movement?

Of course, these are just to get you started! See you Sunday.

INTROS

Q1. What are some of the things we do to feed people in this country that are “unacceptable but accepted”? This in relation to Michael Glantz talking about feeding starving kids in Haiti salted clay. He also said we don’t need technology to fix things. We need “a social invention.” An example: organic. or “looking at nature as a bank.” What ideas can we generate from this notion?

Q2. Why is aquaculture not a regular part of the public discussion of agriculture? Can aquaculture and agriculture co-exist in our minds under the sustainable agriculture heading? How can sustag and sustaqua work together to help each other succeed?

Q3. How can sustainable agriculture address access and social equity? At the Sustainable Seas Institute conference this week in Monterey, Thomas Keller said Americans “tend to want the very best, and spend the very least for it.” Does this hurt those who have the very least but also want the very best?

FREE FOR ALL: Q’s on your mind, requests, helpful links, people2follow