Food as a Foundation for Creativity
How do we connect food security with rural design? Katie Starr, Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow at the Housing Assistance Council, shares her experiences weaving the two disciplines together as part of her fellowship work.
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Food as a Foundation for Creativity
July 24, 2019How do we connect food security with rural design? Katie Starr, Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow at the Housing Assistance Council, shares her experiences weaving the two areas together as part of her fellowship work. -
A Piece of Mississippi: Retrospective on Rural Generation for CIRD
June 7, 2019This piece is a reflection from CIRD team member Evelyn Immonen on her experience at the Rural Generation Summit 2019, and the opinions are her own.
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