Matt NoyesFeb 1, 2024
Heading to our weekly potluck dinner with Fawna. I'm bringing chard ohitashi and miso shiru I made from scratch (the dashi, not the miso itself). Fawna made cauliflower and zucchini pasta. Jay made lentil soup. Tonight our farmer friend Dan and his wife Sonya will be there for the first time, with a pot roast. Nice to see our learning-action circle and weekly potluck worlds collide. Food bringing us together.
#Commensality
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My friend & collaborator Jay is an excellent popular educator, no flip charts & carefully facilitated activities, just a potluck dinner, a round of grace or gratitude, & a question: who are you & what is your relation to food?

People keep coming back, the food is getting better, the conversations are easy but more vulnerable, people are starting to organize walks, babysitting, & other support. I left last night with three people eager to join me in farm work this summer.
#CFactor

Feb 1, 2024 at 2:22pmWeb
Show threadEmiFeb 1, 2024
@Matt_Noyes That is so inspiring!
Show threadMatt NoyesFeb 1, 2024
@emi It's been really interesting. Jay and his friend Derek started the dinners as a separate iniative around the same time we started doing the Razeto course, so we have been able to experience two different ways to do self-education and self-organization. The potluck dinners are low key, social, low barriers to entry and the people are mostly in their 20s or 30s, maybe 60% bipoc. (I'm an "elder") The Razeto group is older on average, whiter, all with deep commitments and practice in food org.
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Fabulous Matt 💚 . Learning, organising AND eating 👀
@emi