Until the Streets of the Hood Flood with Green: The Story of The Electric Smoothie Lab Apothecary

by Kelly Curry

Overview

"Healing our bodies, returning to natural patterns of sleeping and eating and being in community and with the earth...whatever that looks like for you, may be the first steps towards sustainability and balance.



For me it started with tapping into my own abundant energy field by harvesting greens with my own hands, from local soil and herbs and local seasonal fruit and blending all into a power pack of life and richness. All of this is what we share with community via THE ELECTRIC SMOOTHIE LAB APOTHECARY.



This is an amazing opportunity to make meals for folks using food that would otherwise end up in the dumpster because it was unattractive and therefore unsellable. In America every year, billions of pounds of edible food ends up as waste, even though a quarter of households do not have enough food to make it through to the end of the month.



I see a vision clearly before my eyes: children happy healthy preparing their own green smoothies and enjoying the abundance of the Earth as God intends for us to enjoy."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780915117307
Publisher:	Freedom Voices
Publication date:	06/16/2018
Series:	Reimagine!
Pages:	65
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.16(d)

About the Author

Kelly Curry is an author, publisher and social justice activist. She brings over 20 years of frontline, on the ground support of lower income communities of color through her development of life enhancing, ground shifting programs that promote health, well being and love. A veteran of public and private foundation work in New York City, Kelly was influential in ushering in change around public children's after-school programming at the city level, which included development and successful operation of a living arts program for NYC Parks and Recreation Center in Harlem. Through this program, Kelly worked with community kids to plant Harlem's first children's gardens. Kelly continued this trajectory by delivering a living arts program to the children of farm workers and homeless children in Southern California via The Living Love Foundation, where she acted as Director of Programming and Development. Kelly is currently focused on engaging committed, creative, sustainable change around food access for the citizens of East and West Oakland. She does this work in partnership with Planting Justice via How Are You Healing Today which hosts The Electric Smoothie Lab Apothecary.

Table of Contents

TABLE OF CONTENTS

YOU HAVE TO MOVE NUTRITION THROUGH THE COMMUNITY...... 5

KETCHUP IS NOT A VEGETABLE................................................. 10

FEED THE 5,000...................................................................... 24

THAT WHICH IS FREE AND ABUNDANT...................................... 28

PLANTING JUSTICE................................................................. 32

PAULA.................................................................................... 35

HOW ARE YOU HEALING TODAY............................................... 49

QUIET ON THE SET................................................................... 51

THE TABLE.............................................................................. 58

INSIDE THE GREEN SMOOTHIE................................................. 62

ABOUT THE AUTHOR................................................................ 65

Editorial Reviews

Advance Review of Until the Streets of the Hood Flood with Green

When I first heard about The Electric Smoothie Lab Apothecary – I felt a thunderbolt of inspiration go straight through me- what a brilliant idea! The most genius of ideas are often the most obvious, the most transparent; and Kelly’s passion for moving nutrition through our communities (itself inspired by the wise words of an elder whispered in her ears) is the stuff that legends and movements are founded upon.

If orange is the new Black (as Hollywood sells it) it’s only because it’s also code for mass destruction due to an external force: and how better could we describe our communities throughout the stretch of land that was once known as Turtle Island- but through blood shed, enslavement and social control, became the United States of America? We are officially in code orange: There’s a silent war that’s been going on against Black people and it’s killing us. Literally.

Diabetes, high blood sugar, cardiovascular ailments, White supremacist-infiltrated police forces that kill us; and if that wasn’t enough, there’s the mass incarceration that has rendered far too many of us or our family members into a state of neo-slavery.

The definition of insanity is to do the same thing over and over and expect a different result. We will never get freedom from those who despise us. We must create ourselves.

We know these truths to be self-evident.

We must create for ourselves and each other spaces to heal, thrive and live. We must persist. Just as our ancestors did, from the distant shores of Africa, to all the corners of the world we are, and the four corners of this Amerikkka. We must resist through pure and unadulterated joy and health. We must heal ourselves, just as the earth longs to be healed. She is okay – it is us who must be diligent.

Until the Streets of the Hood Flood with Green, like The One Straw Revolution by Masanobu Fukuoka ( a small, but revolutionary book) will find itself in every community we are – from the streets of Detroit, to the streets of Harlem, from Oakland to Tennessee, from New Orleans to Minnesota…you know why? Because we are there and wherever we have been we have consistently defied white terror and we will rise up, with our health and break this psychic sick spell that only requires that we are asleep. No more lead poisoning. No more police brutality. Curry reminds us, lest we have forgotten, about our sacred relationship to the land, to the food she provides and how this relationship is the gateway to unlimited energy – an energy that will break all chains and have us vibrating at such a level, that Babylon will have no choice but to fall down.

Lesley-Ann Brown

Author of Decolonial Daughter: Letters from a Black Woman to her European Son

www.blackgirlonmars.com

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