SFPC Blog

Spokane Food Policy Council Mini-Grant Application The Spokane Food Policy Council is awarding four grants up to $5,000 each to advance the goals of the Regional Food Action Plan. The goals are farmland preservation, increasing local food processing, healthy food for all, and reducing food waste. Learn more about the Spokane Regional Food Action Plan. The […]

The Spokane Food Security Council urges everyone interested in Washington’s agricultural future to contact your state legislators: Support full funding of the Sustainable Farms and Fields Program and pass HB 1631 to set up the technical assistance network for farmers […]

The Sustainability Action Subcommittee of the Spokane City Council, with input and engagement from dozens of local, regional, and national experts, has drafted a Sustainability Action Plan (SAP). The Spokane Food Policy Council enthusiastically supports the draft with some suggested changes. […]

The right food is as important to the body as the right gas is for a car. We have gotten to believe that only a doctor’s prescription for a pharmaceutical is really what is going to make us well when in fact, the opposite is often true. Many of us have reactions to pharmaceuticals because, although based on plants, they have increased the potency of the chemical to a point that is often too strong for many of us. Also, the built-in safeguards that plant-based chemicals often have are removed in a lab-produced chemical that only mimics the plant. […]

What does food mean to you?  I ask my students to journal on this question during the first week of Nutrition.  Their responses range from “fuel” (those are usually the athletes) to “comfort” to “the enemy”.  Everyone has some relationship with food, and it varies over the course of our lives, and sometimes it is healthier than others.  My students tend to struggle with this question. […]