🎙️ ✨ EPISODE 6 - Connections & Collaborations 

The final episode of the season explores where we go from here: what connections and collaborations need to be established, and which can we learn from? How can we engage more people to be part of a food system transition that works for everyone?

Episode Flow

1:25 - Monse & The Tlayolan Collective

3:15 - The symbiosis of the Milpa 

5:33 - Seed Saving Movements & Community Seed Banks

8:35 - The Annual Cycle of Tlayolan & Mexican Tradition 

11:08 - Adapting to our environment & growing new crops 

13:50 - Beatriz & The Berliner Ernährungs Strategy

14:45 - Lebensmittelpunkte or "Food Hub"

17:35 - Passive vs. Active Inclusion  

18:35 - Scott & The Baumhaus in Wedding

21:14 - The PEACES model - personal, ecological, aesthetic, cultural, economic, and social

24:06 - Building spaces for the community 

26:27 - Johanna & SuperCoop

27:40 -  What exactly is a Food Coop? 

29:15 - Collaborations across the Alternative Food Economy

33:15 - The importance of spaces rooted in diverse perspectives 

34:50 - Ayumi & Terrapreta Black Gold 

36:58 - Understanding the Nature/Nutrient Cycle through our bodies

40:38 - The power of Terrapreta especially for sandy soils in Bburg

43:30 - Ayumi's newest initiative: DYCLE & empowering the big picture local economy 

44:50 - Commitment to Circularity 

45:04 - EP wrap up & Season Summary https://www.bund.net/  

• “Seed saving movements and community seed banks are clear and practical examples of food sovereignty”
• “There are a lot of people that die trying to defend this kind of agricultural system”
• ZALF - Leipnitz Center for Agricultural Landscape Research: www.zalf.de/
• Berliner Ernährungs Strategy (The Berlin Nutrition Strategy)
• “15 Lebensmittelpunkte in Berlin and counting!”
• The Baumhaus in Wedding
• The PEACES model - personal, ecological, aesthetic, cultural, economic, and social
• SuperCoop “This is not a Supermarket”
• What is a Food Coop?
• Food Coop Concept from New York, Paris and in Brussels: http://foodcoop.film/
• Robinhood Coop wealth redistribution concept → https://robinhood.store/
• The origins and definition of Terrapreta
• The Nutrient Cycle by Ayumi Matsuzaka [video]
• Ayumi’s How to Make Terrapreta illustration

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  🌱 Production, Script, Narration and Creative Direction by Samie Blasingame

   

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🎙️ ✨ EPISODE 5 - Part II: Building a Food System for Everyone

Episode five acknowledges the homogeneity found currently in discussions of food and agriculture in Berlin and questions how we can expand the conversations to include many more perspectives moving forward.

Part II continues to explore different food cultures and Berlin, the stereotypes and prejudices that shape the food system, and the beautiful diversity within different food cultures that we could all do better to appreciate and support.  

Episode Flow

1:05 - Sissi from EatingInBerlin

6:05 - Racism in the Food System

7:07 - The horrible myth of MSG

9:24 - The Eating Habits of different Food Cultures 

11:48 -  Deang from The Panda Noodle

14:09 - German Price/Value Conundrum 

17:58 - New crops for diaspora cuisine? 

21:36 - How and why the food system is shaped...

23:05 - The Smells Like Market and BIPOC Excellence :) 

24:40 - YAAM - Young African Art Market

25:24 - Alumi, the OG of African Food in Berlin

28:11 - Creating a space for the African Kitchen in Berlin

32:58 - The future of African Food here in Berlin

35:35 - The complexity of building a food system for everyone

Links to resources

1. Diaspora Food and the Just Foodways Project
2. Sissi, the woman behind EatinginBerlin on Instagram 
3. The horrible myth of MSG and why it lingers
4. Halal meat Banned at EU level
5. Daeng’s short documentary series Papaya & Pommes
6. The Panda Noodle: https://www.instagram.com/thepandanoodle/ 
7. “Food is there to give you sustenance - pleasure is merely consequential.
8. Smells Like Collective: https://www.instagram.com/smells__like/
9. Karneval der Kulturen: https://www.karneval.berlin/  
10. YAAM: https://www.yaam.de/ 
11. Alumi’s imbiss, the Afro Kuche, at YAAM
12. Another great African Food resource: https://www.africanfoodmap.com/

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🌱 Production, Script, Narration and Creative Direction by Samie Blasingame

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🎙️ ✨ EPISODE 5 - Part I: Building a Food System for Everyone

Episode five acknowledges the homogeneity found currently in discussions of food and agriculture in Berlin and questions how we can expand the conversations to include many more perspectives moving forward.

Part I dives in to the tensions that arise when places designed for the people are not built in collaboration with people; how public procurement could help usher in a new era of food and farming; and how we should be making space for the first-hand expertise of people with diverse cultural traditions. 

Episode Flow

1:25 - Demands from members of Slow Food Youth Berlin

2:27 - Introduction & Multiple Strands of Justice

3:20 - Kavita & the social sustainability of Food System Change

17:43 - Stephanie Wunder & the power of Public Procurement 

27:05 - Cacan, Yesil Cember & Cultural Expertise  

Links to resources

1. Slow Food Youth Berlin: https://www.instagram.com/slowfoodyouth_berlin/ 
2. Economic Justice: The Cap Reform
3. Global Justice: Kathrin Hartmann, author of a new book in German entitled "It won't get greener" accuses Germany — especially within the EU — of "fatally" offloading its environmental costs from foodstuffs overseas. In March, she wrote that Germany "theoretically" had land enough to be 90% self-sufficient, instead of being the "third-largest" foodstuff importer. 
4. “Most inhabitants, especially the OG Berliners, weren’t born with deep pockets, and they just never had the money to splurge on food—and often they still don't.” (Still in Berlin)
5. Kavita - https://www.vice.com/de/contributor/kavita-goodstar 
6. Halal meat Banned at EU level
7. BerlinLayers website, “The hall was refurbished and re-oriented to focus on local high-quality food manufacturers. The interest in this kind of “craft” food happened, not surprisingly, in tandem with Kreuzberg’s gentrification” 
8. Smells Like: https://www.instagram.com/smells__like/
9. Stephanie Wunder, Ecologic, on Future Farming
10. The basic income initiative that activists in Berlin are currently collecting signatures for
11. The Berlin Food Strategy – & on Instagram
12. Alle an einen Tisch! https://ernaehrungsrat-berlin.de/alle-an-einen-tisch-2/ 
13. Yesil Cember: https://yesilcember.eu/de/startseite/

PRODUCTION

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🌱 Production, Script, Narration and Creative Direction by Samie Blasingame

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