On Thursday October 25th, Wyckoff Youth Entrepreneurship Intern Jensine Lagombra spoke on a panel at the Globesity Festival titled“Eating Good in the Hood”. The panel discussion addressed issues of access to healthy food in urban areas of NYC. The panelist discussed both short and long terms solutions to food insecurity in our communities, from community run and organized farmers markets, making healthy food available in bodegas, community gardens, gardening and food education and getting healthy local food distributed in food pantries.
The panel was moderated by Hillary Baum of the New York City Food System Network. In addition to Jensine other panelist included the amazing women working in food justice in New York City including, Karen Washington of La Familia Verde in the Bronx, Donya A. Williams, Program Coordinator for the NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Healthy Bodegas Initiative, Lizzie Ayer Farm Director and Caretaker for the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum in Brooklyn and Cara Fraver, Just Food, Fresh Food For All Program Coordinator. 
For more info on the Globesity Festival see http://theglobesityfestival.org/
The GLOBESITY FESTIVAL is razor sharp performance, comedy, education, celebration and collaboration. With Theatre as our laboratory, we are cooking & cutting up ingredients for SOLUTIONS. GLOBESITY is the over consumption of all natural elements that create and sustain life on Earth – some of the most vital and visible being water, minerals, oil, and FOOD. Our approach to food and sustenance is destroying our personal and social health. Our Earth and our Bodies cannot sustain the beastly grind of consumption. This beast is Globesity. It has been named. Now is the hour of confrontation.
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