Storytelling

WhyHunger knows its important to amplify the voices of the people working to regain control of their communities' food. We believe that telling one's story is not only an act of reclaiming in the face of the dominant food narrative of this country, but also an affirmation that the small acts of food sovereignty happening across the country add up to a powerful, vital collective.

Roger Allison raises beef calves with his wife, Rhonda Perry, on rolling pastures in the Read more
The apartment’s small kitchen steams with the flavorful scent of cumin, ginger, turmeric, cardamom, clove, Read more
Community Servings (CS) has humble beginnings as a Jewish outreach organization responding to AIDS in Read more
Urban Roots (UR) began as a program of Youth Launch in 2008. After an affluent Read more
Elisa had never heard of free food. That's not why she came to America with Read more
To reach Breslin Farms, you drive through what feels like a sea of corn. The Read more
Denise O'Brien distributes vegetable shares to the members of her community supported agriculture (CSA) program Read more
While the students at Pecan Springs Elementary School in east Austin went through their mid-day Read more
Richard Scott hook and line fishes for king mackerel and red snapper on his fishing Read more
Karen Washington’s community did not have access to fresh, healthy food, so she started changing Read more
Juan Uyunkar is an Uwishin, or natural doctor, of the Shuar people of the Ecuadorian Read more
Dena Hoff has been farming on Sand Creek Farm since 1981. She grows beans, corn, Read more
Ben Burkett’s family has been farming since 1889. Over the years, each generation bought more Read more
Ben Platt is a second-generation fisherman on the fishing vessel Sea Star. He trolls for Read more
Bob St. Peter is the director of Food for Maine’s Future, a board member of Read more
Ana Luisa Trevino came to the United States in 1972 from Matamoros Tamaulipas, Mexico. She Read more
Since 1977, Carlos Marentes has organized work stoppages, aka “strikes” in the border region between Read more
Chavannes Jean Baptiste is a farmer and farm leader. Since 1972 he has coordinated the Read more
Joel Greeno works 160 acres at Greeno Acres. He focuses on marketing high quality, fair Read more
John bought his farm just after World War II and had been a dairy farmer Read more
Julio Cesar Moreno fishes for a variety of fish on his boat,ElUno. He is the Read more
Maria José dos Santos and her husband, José Barbosa Soares, farm grains, fruits and nuts. Read more
Máximo Cangá Castillo active with local, national and grassroots organizations. He is a leader in Read more
Oscar Otzoy came to the United States in 2006 from Guatemala. After working in the Read more
Brooklyn, NY A half-century of the American urban narrative has unfolded in the Brooklyn neighborhood Read more
Dr. Melony Samuels never intended to start a multi-borough food pantry and social service operation. Read more
Once leaving its headwaters in the abrupt, snow-capped Mission Mountain range of western Montana, the Read more
The world’s first food bank is not that old. In 1967 retired businessman John van Read more
Rufus Newsome presses his ear against the cold wooden side of a beehive. His massive Read more
Hurricane Andrea drags its wet, car-wash stroke across Maine. The usually black, clear Sebasticook River Read more
Fidel Gonzalez started farming to save his house. He’d never farmed in his life. He’d Read more
Seattle can grow food. All that misty rain that never seems to go away in Read more
The best ideas are usually the most obvious ones. Michael Reeps stood on stage in Read more
Zenger Farm turns 100 in 2013. In its lifeline, one can see a (admittedly simple) Read more
Three brightly-colored nylon tents flap in the mild breeze. A tattered blue tarp hangs from Read more
Vince Vang Lee Xiong and his mother stoop to pick shiny, metallic beetles off the Read more
In 2006, Soil Born Farm’s Food Access Coordinator, Randy Stannard, heard about a man selling Read more
“I started out just scrubbing walls,” says David McClellan, age 21. “Hours of scrubbing walls Read more
Each Thursday at Martin Luther King, Jr. elementary school in West Oakland, Monica Parks shows Read more
A four-year-old carrying an adult-size food tray is a funny thing. It looks like a Read more
Since it’s below freezing, Rita and Barton Williams walk us into the greenhouse that sits Read more
When school lets out at Eugene Field Elementary School, the area does not become a Read more
Ms Campbell’s Earth Science classroom in McClain Junior/Senior Magnet High School looks huge and spotless Read more
The grim reaper of Taos County is a quiet, soft-spoken man who arrives to ranches Read more
The rich floodplains along the Rio Grande River in Albuquerque look like they’ve been farmed Read more
There’s nothing easy about farming. You can’t dabble in it. That’s gardening or plantation farming. Read more
Manney Sicard, age 37, kept seeing people working in the garden behind his apartment. The Read more
Juan Lopez arrived to the US as an exile, with the Coast Guard flying overhead. Read more
There are no FM radio stations when driving up the Pauma Valley from California’s Interstate Read more
Daniella, 18, used to ride her fixy bike all day, just to be outside. She Read more
The border town of Nogales, AZ has two lives, but they aren’t Mexican and American. Read more
For over a decade the field lay fallow, a broad meadow at the bottom of Read more
You can't ignore the fresh produce stand in the front of Bottles corner store at Read more
Cody Van Meter's favorite part of his Olympia, WA hometown is a rectangle of tilled Read more
As we wrote a few days ago, several of us from WhyHunger were in Arizona Read more
Some towns need a revolution more than others. Birmingham, AL, at the turn of the Read more