by Elizabeth Henderson This month’s column will be short – lots to say, but too busy gardening and digging in the dirt to write it down! New booth at the Public Market!…
Category: Environment
Getting Grounded – This is the Month of Maying!
by Elizabeth Henderson
I promised last month to write next about the Rochester Community Food System Plan, but the final draft has yet to appear. Based on the drafts I have seen so far, I can report that the consultants have done an excellent job describing the existing food system, collecting the data and maps of this city and county that reveal the history of neglect and deliberate underinvestment that made “the Crescent,” the low-income, underserved neighborhoods that exist to this day.
Getting Grounded: Report on the 10th Rochester Urban Agriculture Conference
By Elizabeth Henderson For people who want to plant food and flowers, the cold and rains of March are exasperating. When the sun comes out for 15 minutes, the overeager dash out…
Riding Three Horses to Agrarian Justice
By Elizabeth Henderson At Northeast Organic Farming Association (NOFA) summer conferences, we held a fair which culminated in a horseback riding demonstration. Dale Perkins rode bareback with his feet first on one,…
Getting Grounded: Report back from the Urgenci 9th International Symposium: Sowing Solidarity, Cultivating Community
by Elizabeth Henderson
For three days in December, I had the opportunity to attend “The flagship global event for Local and Solidarity-based Partnerships in Agroecology (LSPA) of which Community Supported Agriculture is the best-known iteration…” in La Bergerie de Villarceaux, Chaussy, France.
Rochester for Energy Democracy Protests at RG&E December 6 to Demand No Hikes, No Shut Offs, Public Power Now!
Action timed for before rate hikes negotiations begin at Office Proposed to Close RG&E is proposing a $624 rate hike and a raise to their profits, while they’ve already blown past their…
November 2025 Getting Grounded: Local Sources Amidst Farming Crisis
by Elizabeth Henderson
The current administration’s unhinged tariff games are devastating the soy and corn farms that occupy so much of US farmland.
Rochester for Energy Democracy Welcomes City Council Opposition to Rate Hikes, Hopes it means Action on a Public Utility Study
Metro Justice and the Rochester for Energy Democracy coalition delivered this statement to City Council leaders who have opposed rate hikes but haven’t yet acted on a City-led study at the Speak to Council session on Thur Nov 13 at City Hall at 6pm.
Metro Justice and Community Organizations Demand “STOP the Hikes – Fund the Study” at Sept 30 Public Hearing on Proposed 34% RG&E Rate Hikes
by Rochester for Energy Democracy
Metro Justice, the Rochester for Energy Democracy (RED) Campaign and over 60 concerned Rochesterians rallied Tuesday at 5:30pm at City Hall to highlight the harmful RG&E proposal for another 34% hike in distribution rates, right after the previous 34% rate hike went into effect in May.
Getting Grounded: Summer Abstractions – the Meaning of Food Sovereignty
By Liz Henderson In the heat of summer, as we watch tomatoes swell and slowly ripen while we gorge on excesses of summer squash and cucumbers, it might be a good time…