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USDA’s Systems Change Opportunity
The local food sector, along with just about everyone else, has learned some valuable lessons from the pandemic. One such learning came from USDA’s Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Read More

Co-Leadership Transition at the Wallace Center
The Wallace Center is transitioning to a co-directorship model under the shared leadership of Susan Lightfoot Schempf and Pete Huff. Both have been leading Wallace’s programs for the past several years, helping the organization build authentic relationships and championing efforts to center racial equity in our organizational culture and programs. Read More

The Power of Community-based Food Systems
This new multimedia storytelling project is an exploration into how communities across the Northwest are using community-based food systems to catalyze resistance and resilience, self-determination and sovereignty, connection and liberation. Read More

Announcing the Midwest Grazing Exchange
Accessing land to graze, or finding livestock farmers to partner with, can be a barrier to expanding integrated crop-livestock systems. A new website by the Midwest Perennial Forage Working Group – a network of grazing educators in the Upper Midwest that includes the Wallace Center's Pasture Project – seeks to address this challenge. Read More

Collaborating for Native Communities
By the time A-dae Briones joined a late March conference call with national funders and partners about the impact of COVID-19 on food supply chains in the U.S., she had already spent days fielding appeals for food and water from Native American communities across the Southwest. Read More

Natilee McGruder – Reflections on Time with the Wallace Center
Natilee McGruder's year with the Wallace Center was short but impactful! Given her many gifts, talents, and passions, Natilee was quickly pulled into a lot of important facets of Wallace work, in addition to her leading our internal and external communications.   Read More

John Fisk – Reflections and Legacy at the Wallace Center
After 15 years in leadership at the Wallace Center at Winrock International, our dear friend and esteemed colleague John Fisk has moved on to a new chapter. Read more about his legacy here. Read More

Important Organizational Updates from the Wallace Center
At the end of July 2020, we bid farewell to two dear colleagues and revered food systems leaders, John Fisk and Natilee McGruder. Please take some time to read about their time with the Wallace Center as we celebrate them and wish them the best in their new chapters. Read More

Wallace Center Condemns Police Brutality
The Wallace Center unequivocally denounces and condemns the brutal murder of George Floyd by several of the members of the Minneapolis Police Department and the trauma it has continuously inflicted on the city’s Black community. Read More

A More Just Vision: Collaborating on the Future of Good Food
John Fisk reflects on the 2020 NGFN conference, COVID-19, and the future of good food. Read More