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Monday, December 8, 2014
Food Rebel Video Contest
Applegate Natural and Organic Meats is sponsoring the Applegate #FoodRebel Video Contest. The winner will receive a $3000 cash grant! Contestants simply need to submit a 90-second video about how they or someone they know is changing the way their communities eat for the better. Timeline for contests: November 5th- Contest opens for video submissions and voting; December 31st- Submissions Closed; January 10th- Voting concludes; January 11th- Winner announced!
I can't wait to see the results of this contest! How about you?
Gloria
Fam to School webinar tomorrow!
Building Community Capacity: Local, regional and national
collaborations for farm to school
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM EST
How can collaborative networks and innovative partnerships support farm to school? And how can communities build those partnerships and networks? On this webinar we will hear from three panelists offering s statewide, regional and nation perspective on this issue. Register here!
Tuesday, December 9, 2014 1:00 PM - 1:20 PM EST
How can collaborative networks and innovative partnerships support farm to school? And how can communities build those partnerships and networks? On this webinar we will hear from three panelists offering s statewide, regional and nation perspective on this issue. Register here!
Sunday, December 7, 2014
Small grants available for kids garden projects
Katie’s Krops provides small grants to support any vegetable garden, big or small, that is organized by a young person and plans to donate the
harvest to charitable organizations. The application
deadline is December 31st. Go to Katie’s Krops for more information: http://katieskrops.com/apply-for-a-grant.html
This would be a great way to expand a school garden’s connection to the community or for a young person or group of young people (church youth group? Scout troop?) to do a community service project!
Gloria
This would be a great way to expand a school garden’s connection to the community or for a young person or group of young people (church youth group? Scout troop?) to do a community service project!
Gloria
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Serving people in need with dignity
Did you see the segment on last Sunday's "60 Minutes" called War and Hunger?
Some of the segment moved me to tears to see the struggles of people in countries torn by war and where food is used as a weapon.
But the show also brought great joy, to see the work of the World Food Programme, and its tireless and passionate team. And especially to see former Feeding America executive Ertharin Cousin, who is now the Executive Director of the WFP.
With Ertharin's leadership, the WFP has taken a new approach to feeding people in refugee camps. Instead of the mass feeding, cafeteria style, that you are used to seeing in the wake of a disaster or crisis, the WFP is building supermarkets! Each refugee family is then given a food card and they can get their own food, prepare their own meals, and eat together as a family!
Doesn't this make sense?
It's the disaster equivalent of providing SNAP benefits in the US or of the best practice of providing client choice at food pantries in the US. We recommend that, instead of pre-packing bags for families, the families be allowed to choose their own food. It's more dignified, less food is wasted, and it let's the volunteers interact with the clients in new ways - ways that might actually build human relationships and help a family on the road to self-sufficiency.
We need to feed people who are hungry, whether the disaster is natural or man-made, and whether it's here in the US or overseas. But can't we do it in a way that preserves the dignity of the person needing the assistance?
Gloria
Some of the segment moved me to tears to see the struggles of people in countries torn by war and where food is used as a weapon.
But the show also brought great joy, to see the work of the World Food Programme, and its tireless and passionate team. And especially to see former Feeding America executive Ertharin Cousin, who is now the Executive Director of the WFP.
With Ertharin's leadership, the WFP has taken a new approach to feeding people in refugee camps. Instead of the mass feeding, cafeteria style, that you are used to seeing in the wake of a disaster or crisis, the WFP is building supermarkets! Each refugee family is then given a food card and they can get their own food, prepare their own meals, and eat together as a family!
Doesn't this make sense?
It's the disaster equivalent of providing SNAP benefits in the US or of the best practice of providing client choice at food pantries in the US. We recommend that, instead of pre-packing bags for families, the families be allowed to choose their own food. It's more dignified, less food is wasted, and it let's the volunteers interact with the clients in new ways - ways that might actually build human relationships and help a family on the road to self-sufficiency.
We need to feed people who are hungry, whether the disaster is natural or man-made, and whether it's here in the US or overseas. But can't we do it in a way that preserves the dignity of the person needing the assistance?
Gloria
Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Treating hunger as a health issue
Just as health systems are improving patient outcomes by basing in-store clinics
in food stores and partnering with retail dietitians and pharmacists, healthcare
providers are paying close attention to social determinants of health such as
food insecurity, in traditional diagnostic settings.
Take, for instance, non-profit Promedica, which serves a 27-county area of Northwest Ohio and Southwest Michigan that was particularly hard hit by the recession and collapse of the auto industry. It’s started to screen all patients admitted to five of its 17 hospitals about their ability to feed themselves and their families.
Read the full story online here.
Take, for instance, non-profit Promedica, which serves a 27-county area of Northwest Ohio and Southwest Michigan that was particularly hard hit by the recession and collapse of the auto industry. It’s started to screen all patients admitted to five of its 17 hospitals about their ability to feed themselves and their families.
Read the full story online here.
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Giving Tuesday
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, and Cyber Monday have all passed. Today is Giving Tuesday, a nationwide effort to encourage everyone to give to their favorite charities in this season of shopping and buying.
Will you support GardenShare's work to build a North Country where everyone has enough to eat and enough to share?
Go here to make your donation.
Thank you!
Gloria
Monday, December 1, 2014
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