Food Justice Solutions - Laura Mirafuentes - The Local Food Group Minnesota

Episode 63 December 05, 2022 00:31:07
Food Justice Solutions - Laura Mirafuentes - The Local Food Group Minnesota
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Food Justice Solutions - Laura Mirafuentes - The Local Food Group Minnesota

Dec 05 2022 | 00:31:07

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Show Notes

The Food Group Minnesota is not your typical food pantry.  Yet that is where they started originally over 40 years ago.  They provide excellent examples of ways that community organizations can take a much larger role in addition to meeting immediate hunger-fighting needs.  The Food Group Minnesota grows, harvests, buys and distributes healthy foods with multiple programs.

Laura Mirafuentes is the perfect spokesperson for The Food Group. She has worked there for over eight years using her skills in fundraising, program management, and her 10 years of experience working in the food and agriculture sector to make a difference for local food systems and local food justice in the greater Minneapolis, MN area. She has worked with The Food Group since 2014, where she currently oversees fundraising for the organization and spent several years managing Big River Farms, a 150-acre certified organic incubator farm for beginning farmers of color.  

Laura has served as Project Director with multiple USDA awards and has helped various other organizations successfully attain their own federal grants as an independent consultant. Laura Mirafuentes currently serves as Vice President on the Board of Directors at Mississippi Market Natural Foods Co-op. She graduated from Gustavus Adolphus College in 2009 with a B.A. in English and is bilingual in Spanish.

https://thefoodgroupmn.org

 

Podcast sponsored by: GOGREENLOCALLY ORG, 501c3 NV nonprofit

Hosted by: Jenny Nichols, Executive Director

Edited by: Avery Sigarroa, Communications Coordinator

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