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Hobby Farms Presents: Growing GoodEpisode 15: Tara Rodríguez BesosaHow does a farming community recover after a disaster? By coming together. Tara Rodríguez Besosa talks about Puerto Rico’s agricultural and economic situation, including the role that the U.S. plays and, more importantly, the neighbors providing for one another in Puerto Rico’s food system. Hear how they started their own food journey when their mother left the city to become a farmer, then sold sprouts they grew in their city apartment at the farmers market, and then started big-picture thinking about how to support farmers on the island with the business that they cofoun...2021-10-0840 min
ksrecords 3Speak PodcastEcos de Resistencia Documetal completo HDhttps://3speak.tv/watch?v=ksrecords/hygzkvja Filmado dos meses después del paso de los huracanes Irma y María por el archipiélago de Borikén (Puerto Rico), ECOS DE RESISTENCIA recoge testimonios de colectivos e individuos que están creando nuevas alternativas al sistema colonial antes y después del paso de estos huracanes en 2017. El estado de emergencia que vivió Puerto Rico en aquel momento evidenció crudamente la negligencia y desprecio del gobierno colonial poniendo en primer plano la urgencia y capacidad de autogestión del pueblo. Los frutos de esta organización popular se viven h...2021-06-1000 min
Politics of FoodA Perfect Storm85% of food consumed in Puerto Rico is imported to the island. How does food dependence on the US mainland affect the relationship between the two? How does the addition of a Category 5 Hurricane affect an already perilous system? Cristina talks with Tara Rodriguez Besosa, an organizer and architect about creating a non-profit collective there called El Departmento de la Comida, and its mission to create agroecological concepts that can be used to create resilience through food sovereignty on the island and beyond. In the second half of the show Cristina talks with Chef Alejandro Perez, who started working with World...2021-06-091h 04
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastPart 2: Tara Rodriguez BesosaIn part 2 of this podcast, we continue our conversation with Tara Rodriguez Besosa, a queer, latinx, agro-architect, organizer, and living resource within the sustainable & queer food, agroecology movements. Tara has increased access to local food economies, spotlighting the value of farmers within economic transitions from extractive to regenerative practices. She also invests a lot her time at OtraCosa, a queer collective land sanctuary in Caguas, Puerto Rico.In this episode, Tara discusses how queer farming practices are used to create resilience through food sovereignty and more.Send us a text...2021-04-2640 min
Sundays at Café Tabac - The PodcastEpisode 10: Agro-activist, Tara Rodriguez BesosaTara Rodríguez Besosa (she/they/ellx), born, raised and based in Borikén (Puerto Rico), works at the powerful intersection of queer community and food sovereignty, often sharing how queer and agroecological practices are essential for the transition from extractive to regenerative food systems, as well as collective models and shared resources that empower those who grow, cook, and work towards decolonized bodies and lands.She is co-founder of projects ranging from a DIY architect-run gallery in Brooklyn, to El Departamento de la Comida in Puerto Rico, to arts venues like El Local en Santurce and a...2021-04-1025 min
Meat + ThreeSlow FoodWe're back from Slow Food Nations – a festival of flavor, culture and exploration organized by Slow Food USA. This year's gathering focused on identifying tangible solutions to problems in the food system and developing specific actionable items for positive change.
Towards the end of the festival, the Slow Food International press office sent an email with the subject line “Slow Food Nations embraces equity, inclusion and justice in food.” It outlined Slow Food USA’s formal commitment to food justice and dismantling structures that perpetuate inequity and exclusion. It just so happens that it intersects nicely with HRN's mi...2018-07-2018 min
Heritage Radio Network On TourTara Rodriguez Besosa at Slow Food Nations 2018Tara is the founder of “El Departamento de la Comida” a project born in 2010 as a multi-farm CSA, then a storefront, then a local-sustainable sourced experimental kitchen, restaurant and workshop space in Puerto Rico. She is also the co-founder/co-director of El Fondo de Resiliencia de Puerto Rico or the Puerto Rico Resilience Fund, born out of the aftermath of hurricanes Irma and María. This 24 month action campaign is dedicated to impacting 200 sustainable food projects and is the Director of Puerto Rico Headquarters for Americas for Conservation + Arts, a nonprofit based in Colorado.
Learn more about Tara...2018-07-1519 min