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SATURDAY WORKSHOP SERIES:
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Come check out the Food N’ Justice Workshop series. Always free at the Saturday North Oakland Farmers’ Market, usually 11-1pm. Our workshop series is located at:
North Oakland Arlington Medical Center
5715 Market St.
- February 11, 2012
Liberation of the Modern Diet: Enslavement of the Black Eyed Pea
Start Time: 11:00 am
Ends: 1:00 pm
Description: Liberation of the Modern Diet
This workshop will explore how and why the way we think about food has been biased to unhealthy options. We will discuss how the healthy traditional food of people of color was stripped of nutrition, the introduction of prepared food and fast food into our diets and how our thinking about food has changed. It will also outline ways to liberate ourselves from this.
with Raheemah Nitoto
Holistic Health / Nutrition Educator,Urban Holistic Solutions
“holistic health and nutrition in an urban environment”
Please RSVP here http://tiny.cc/0mici, questions hit up max@phatbeetsproduce.org or 510-689-3068 - February 18, 2012
Treasure your health by Dafina Kuficha
Start Time: 11:00 am
Ends: 1:00 pm
Description: Title:Treasure your health by dafina kuficha licensed acupuncturist, doula, and spiritualist.
Description:Holistic healing and health maintenance from the womb to the elder. More information to follow.
Please RSVP here http://tiny.cc/0mici, questions hit up max@phatbeetsproduce.org or 510-689-3068 - February 25, 2012
On the Fly: Fast, Simple, Yummy and Inexpensive meals and Natural medicines.
Start Time: 11:00 am
Ends: 1:00 pm
Description:
On the Fly: Fast, Simple, Yummy and Inexpensive meals and Natural medicines.
Healthy eating and using alternative medicines do not have to be time consuming and expensive. Brotherman (aka Asual Aswad) and Sister Love (aka Michele Lee) demonstrate how to eat and stay healthy with our busy lives. Learn how to make Vegetarian, Vegan and Soul Food meals, and remedies and diets to treat diabetes, high blood pressure, inflammation, and treat other chronic diseases and boost your immunity. Come with humor!
Please RSVP here http://tiny.cc/0mici, questions hit up max@phatbeetsproduce.org or 510-689-3068
Michele Elizabeth Lee is an eclectic professional who is an artist, educator, activist, health advocate and cultural anthropologist. Nurtured early by her parents who were active in the civil rights movement in Oakland, CA, Ms. Lee continued that passion and commitment using the creative arts as her voice. She was chair of Art Against Apartheid for the entire Bay Area and most recently curator for the California African American Museum in Los Angeles. Ms. Lee is also a credentialed teacher who has taught in the Oakland Unified School District. Ms. Lee is founder of the health blog Working the Roots which celebrates Black folk medicine and is based on her 6 years of field research in the rural south documenting the knowledge from traditional healers and rootworkers. Working the Roots also advocates simple and inexpensive preventative healthcare routines as the road to good health. Ms. Lee earned her bachelors degree from Antioch College and her Masters from The University of Southern California. Ms. Lee coordinates the health workshops for Phat Beets Farmers Market and helps with direct outreach to the neighborhood. She is the mother of two children and enjoys hiking, bodyboarding and hiding out in the cuts in the deep woods. She resides in the north oakland community where her family migrated to over 70 years ago from the deep south for a better opportunity and the WWII time jobs.
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