- Event date:November 17, 2024 at 5:00 PM
- Event end:November 17, 2024 at 8:00 PM
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Join author the Rev. Dr. Yvette Blair-Lavallais at the farm table November 17 for discussion on her book “Scrimpin’ and Scrapin’: The Hardships and Hustle of Women and Food Insecurity in Texas.” Enjoy farm-to-table dining on scrumptious local food and inspiring discussion with Blair-Lavallais and others working to help people rethink how they eat.
This dinner is one of a series at Sister Grove Farm that is carefully crafted around the discussion of important writings on food justice, farming, and community. Conversation will be shared around a table laden with good local food from neighboring farmers in the Van Alstyne area, just north of McKinney.
Understanding Food Insecurity, and How to Rise Against It
This book, published in 2022, calls for a holy wrestling that seeks to find solutions that transform the experiences of women in Texas from barely getting by to being food secure.
What is our ecclesial response to food insecurity, food apartheid, and food deserts? “Scrimpin’ and Scrapin'” offers an introduction to the systemic injustices that cause food insecurity. Questioning the current state, Blair-Lavallais looks at the origins of food banks, food pantries, and community fridges. She explores the root causes of food insecurity and the ways that food is political.
The author calls for people of the church to activate their faith in tangible, meaningful, and transformative ways to address these issues. Join her for discussion on how to be ecclesial disruptors of a system that has caused harm and left many of our neighbors living in food deserts and uncertain about their access to healthy food.
About the Speaker
Blair-Lavallais describes herself as a pastor, food-justice scholar, and editor, “doing justice, loving kindness, walking humbly with God.”
Blair-Lavallais is an ordained elder in the Methodist Church. She has served in pastoral ministry for almost 15 years in the Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and she was the first woman in the role of senior pastor at First Christian Methodist Church in the Red Bird area of Dallas.
A womanist public theologian and food justice strategist, she earned a Doctor of Ministry from Memphis Theological Seminary in May 2022. Her work focuses on the intersection of faith and food insecurity, displacement, and gentrification of Black, Latinx, and Indigenous peoples.
As a result of her doctoral research project, “Reframing the Narrative of Food Insecurity: Creating a Faith-Based Policy that Addresses Food Apartheid in the Red Bird Community of Dallas,” she developed the Red Bird Food Policy Council to amplify the voices of those affected by food insecurity and to work toward equitable food justice solutions.
Dr. Yvette received the 2022 Juanita J. Craft Humanitarian Award for Visionary Leadership for her work at the intersection of faith and our foodways systems, and for creating a positive effect on civil rights and community transformation in Dallas by bringing national attention to food insecurity in Texas. The award was presented by The State Fair of Texas and named for Ms. Craft who tirelessly fought for civil rights, was the first African American woman to vote in Dallas County in a public election and helped integrate the State Fair of Texas.
With Live Music!
Live music will be sprinkled through evening with help from friends at The Gar Hole, a live music hotspot in Anna, Texas.
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“Scrimpin’ and Scrapin’: The Hardships and Hustle of Women and Food Insecurity in Texas”
Discussion with Author Rev. Dr. Yvette Blair-Lavallais
Sunday November 17, 5-8 pm
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Hosted By Sister Grove Farm
Sister Grove Farm is committed to building community: where strangers become neighbors and neighbors become friends. Where this happens is at the table. And with locally sourced food, the transformation reaches beyond just the people at the table.
The farm is 149 acres of rolling blackland prairie just 45 miles north of Dallas. Nestled along the east prong of Sister Grove Creek on the ancestral lands of the Wichita people, this patch of earth is now cared for by Rodney and Sarah Macias as a regenerative farm and small retreat center.
The land was once owned by Collin McKinney, oldest signer of the Texas Declaration of Independence, and an 1859 farmhouse (restored as one of our accommodations) was home to his son and daughter in law, Younger Scott McKinney and Sarah Janes McKinney. The farmhouse can accommodate up to 9 people but is also perfect for a solo or couple’s get-away.
The farm also features two communally designed guesthouses and an indoor group-use space with a commercial kitchen and everything needed for meetings and dining.
Using holistic grazing and regenerative approaches to agriculture, Sister Grove Farm raises grass-fed cattle and sheep along with heritage breed chickens. Joining the farm in these tasks are two livestock guardian dogs and one barn cat.
At Sister Grove, the farm's mission is to “grow and raise a diversity of plant and animal species for food and beauty in such a manner that the land is healed along with all who visit and live here.”