We are a grassroots collective
Working to transform the food system.
Who we are & What we’re about
We are a grassroots collective of farming, food and hospitality workers committed to total transformation of the food system. Together, we have been nourishing, organizing and educating ourselves and our networks since 2014.
Our current, industrialized food system is as broken as it was designed to be. But we know that new futures are possible if we co-create them.
We envision a food future for all people where equity, sustainability, and self-determination are baked into the recipe — from New York City to the Hudson Valley, from Puerto Rico to Palestine, on Turtle Island and around the globe.
We work towards this vision by cultivating an ecosystem of people, food businesses and organizations as a foundation for activities that help shift narratives, shift culture and unstick stagnant ways of working.
FIG’s work ranges from hosting peer-to-peer political education and skill-sharing opportunities; to facilitating collaborative, mutual aid-inspired projects and initiatives in our community, including our long-running Food Security Program; and co-producing or amplifying other folks’ campaigns and actions, based on community need.
HOW WE ORGANIZE
CULTIVATE
Our relationships are our greatest resources! We make connections between food workers and businesses throughout the food system, folks on the frontlines of fighting food apartheid, and fellow travelers in social justice movements.
LEARN
Knowledge is power: We convene and create opportunities to share skills and resources with each other — from study group meetings online and offline, to workshops and trainings, film screening and guest speakers — often in collaboration with industry comrades.
MOBILIZE
Our relationship building, consciousness raising, and foundation of shared knowledge enables us to mobilize for collective change — whether in direct response to crisis (i.e. post-hurricane or pandemic emergency food relief) or in solidarity with larger movement demands.
food sovereignty WORK
FIG, TRANSgrediendo and Brooklyn Grange members at Rock Steady Farm.
Since launching as an emergency food relief response to COVID six years ago, our collaborative food security program has deepened in trust, clarified in scope, and grown in collective power.
We’re proud to be building with Colectivo Intercultural TRANSgrediendo, Pixie Scout, The Migrant Kitchen, Connected Chef, Choy Commons,Brooklyn Packers, ARV Kitchen and other dear collaborators.
We deliver free, fresh, and culturally resonant prepared meals to TRANSgrediendo’s community kitchen, weekly, year-round.
We coordinate organic produce lovingly grown by the Asian, queer and trans farmers of Choy Commons, weekly, throughout the growing season. T4t veggie mutual aid!
We provide solidarity catering for gatherings and celebrations through food businesses in the wider FIG network.
In addition, together we’ve organized in-person gatherings, farm field trips, an all-Spanish-language culinary workshop series, and invitations to each others’ events — ways in which we are building community and relationship beyond just the food. As organizers and connectors, FIG serves as the mycellial network that holds it all together.
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