Core Beliefs of Green Table Initiative
The six core beliefs of Green Table Initiative include food sovereignty, responsibility to take care of the planet and each other, we are nature, abundance mindset, kindness and compassion, and inclusive community. Below is a more in depth run down of what we mean when we say or use these words. Our vision is a resilient, healthy community of people interconnected with nature, building a sustainable and equitable future for all. Our hope is that by practicing these core beliefs this vision is possible!
Food Sovereignty is the right of people to have access to healthy, culturally appropriate, and sustainably grown food produced by and for their own communities. We believe that healing begins with reclaiming our connection to the land, to our ancestral practices and to each other. It is a natural born right to be able to eat from the land. Growing food locally on a smaller scale greatly impacts the communities ability to eat nutrient dense food. When we eat from our local bioregion and watershed we get the minerals and trace elements that the community needs to be healthy and happy.
Responsibility to take care of the planet and each other. How do we grow food while restoring the ecology? Is it possible to eat from the land without taking more than we consume to support an honorable harvest? When people’s awareness expands into understanding that when we take we are taking from our relatives. Let’s learn how to put into practice taking only what we need and always giving back for what we have taken. And always give gratitude.
We are nature supports the regenerative paradigm where humans see themselves not as separate and superior to nature, nor as separate and inferior to nature, but instead simply as members of a community of all life forms that are working together towards the collective and interdependent goal of well-being. This thinking sparks reverence and awe leading to compassionate win-win relationships with all living things. Justice, oneness, and humility are born!
Abundance Mindset is the belief that there are always enough resources, opportunities, and good things for everyone. This mindset leads to optimism, gratitude, generosity, collaboration, trust and non-competition. This mindset leads to limitless possibilities while the scarcity mindset focusses on the preoccupation with what is lacking and a fear of not having enough. Let’s change the measure of a person’s status by how much they share instead of by how much they have accumulated.
Kindness and Compassion should not need to be explained but I think that most would agree we could use a little more of it today. Let’s just start by treating others the way we would like to be treated.
Inclusive Community means that everyone is included period. When we understand the role that biodiversity plays in the soil we can then make the connection that the diversity of humans is the exact same and it is what makes us resilient. All members play an equally important role. We all have an accountability and responsibility to collaborate with one another.
We all have to eat and we all have a seat at the table!! Let’s Grow together!