Let's get going on the upcoming garden season for 2024!

Bill of Health Food is Medicine Approaches to Address Diet-Related Health Conditions.

Take a look for yourself and study how your food choices may be good for you and the environmental health of the planet. Some cities while not banning meat, want to encourage us to eat more plants and have signed on to the Plant Based Treaty, see information about the treaty.

The Gardening Channel Seed Starting, MIGardener seed starting. Chicago Gardener March Tasks. Chicago Gardener flower variety for containers to start seeds for now.

MIGardener starting potatoes in containers. Search the keywords, “seed potatoes for sale” for vendors for seed potatoes.

See the Chicago Grows Food website to register for the monthly Lunch and Grow program at noon, the second Wednesday of the month.

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker’s own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the OCEAN-HP, or the CPHP. The material and information presented here are for general information purposes only. While the podcast is designed to promote the development of healthy communities through food literacy, we offer no health advice and encourage our listeners to seek guidance from their healthcare providers.

Since discovering the Food Institute website I have spent considerable time reading through the offerings and found the following to share:

Food Institute Food as Medicine Conundrum

https://foodinstitute.com/focus/the-food-as-medicine-conundrum/

No surprise here but the Food Institute shares insight about the causes of the global Type-2 Diabetes pandemic.

The Food Institute research found that food as medicine initiatives do improve health and save household consumer dollars. The conundrum is related to the impact of food insecurity.

Find the True Cost of Food: Food as Medicine Case Study report here.

There are three new books on our bookshelf:

Grow Big In Small Spaces: The Urban Gardeners Guide to Container Gardening & Home Canning by Luke Potter.

The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline by Kim Eierman

Forager’s Garden by Anna Locke

My fellow gardeners are anxious to get going so you may want to do the following in February. Videos produced by Chicago Gardener on garden tasks and planting schedule for February. The Chicago Gardener channel has videos specific to Chicago.

Also see:

MIGardener

The Gardening Channel is located in USDA Zone 7 but the information is still valuable I would wait about 3 weeks or so to adjust to our zone 6 requirements. Check out the information you should know before buying seeds.

I am excited to let you know that the March episode will include a session my co-host and co-producer soil enthusiast and scientist Dr. Akilah Martin and I did last year currently going through postproduction.

Also, I will have more details about how you may participate in the African Diaspora Collection and Collard Project collaboration we are organizing with the Urban Growers Collective, Community Food Navigator, Chicago Grows Food, Stein Learning Garden, Gardeneers, Openlands, Healthy Schools Campaign and the Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion at UIC, among others.

Contact: orrinw@uic.edu

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker’s own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the OCEAN-HP, or the CPHP. The material and information presented here are for general information purposes only. While the podcast is about food literacy, we offer no health advice and encourage our listeners to seek guidance from their healthcare providers.

The Roots Watering Hole podcast series is back after some life issues that kept us from publishing except for our food literacy podcast for several months. We return with a compelling interview with Dr. Gerald that we think you will enjoy,

Bio: "Dr. JPB Gerald is an educator and theorist with a day job in non-profit education management and a side hustle trying to dismantle these systems we're all in. He writes and speaks about the intersection between racism, language education, and ability, and lives on unceded Munsee Lenape territory (aka NYC) with his wife, toddler, and dog."

Dr. Gerald came to the Roots Watering Hole podcast series after my co-host and co-producer Dr. Akilah Martin shared a podcast episode where Justin appeared as a guest on the Integrated Schools podcast. To say the least, I was intrigued and picked up Justin’s book, Antisocial Language Teaching: English and the Pervasive Pathology of Whiteness. Dr. Akilah and I both read the book and reached out to Dr. Gerald, and he graciously agreed to be a guest on the RWH podcast. Thank you again, Justin! Tune in now for our episode with Dr. JPB Gerald.

Book: https://www.multilingual-matters.com/page/detail/?K=9781800413269

Podcast for All of Dr. Gerald’s Episodes: https://radiopublic.com/unstandardized-english-G27J3n/episodes

Website: https://jpbgerald.com/

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Additional Dr. Justin Gerald Podcasts

Language Teaching and the white Working Class, with Nicole Pettitt Podcast

Dr. Justin Gerald on Linked in

Again, thank you to Dr. Gerald, the aftermath of the episode led to an exploration of linguistics, especially as it relates to the use of language and dialects. The exploration that had its antecedents in earlier explorations of topics such as Ebonics and Black English also led to the exploration of how people speak in places such as Appalachia, the Caribbean communities, Gullah communities on the Atlantic coast.

Think deeply about language and words as it is important to how WE tell OUR stories.

“Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”

― Chinua Achebe


The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker’s own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the Center for Urban Transformation or the Roots Watering Hole podcast series. The material and information presented here are for general information purposes only.