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Do you enjoy working with kids? Are you passionate about local food, food justice, and child nutrition? This could be the job for you! Position: Mobile Market & School Educator Organization: Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture Summary Arcadia Center for Sustainable Food & Agriculture is looking for an enthusiastic, engaging, self-motivated School Educator. [...]
Posted in AccessWhat’s a child’s first reaction to a bright orange roasted sweet potato on her cafeteria tray? “Weird!” or “What’s that?!” But take that child to a nearby farm and show her how sweet potatoes are grown; or bring a local chef into her classroom to make a delicious sweet potato dish. Then what? That sweet potato in her school meal is gone before you know it!
The D.C. Farm to School Network is pleased to announce that the third annual D.C. Farm to School Week will take place October 3-7, 2011 in schools across Washington, DC! The week will get students excited about local food and where it comes from. Schools will feature seasonal, local foods in their school meals, and engage students in hands-on food education.
Food advocates these days don’t have it easy. There’s plenty written on the ways that poverty, access, and obesity influence what we eat — now fair food activists are exploring what resources, approaches, and strategies are successfully changing how we eat. Just last month, a UNC-based study found that simply improving access to supermarkets in [...]
More options for healthy, affordable, fresh produce are coming east of the Anacostia River! On Saturday, September 3rd, a new Farmers Market will launch in the Parkside-Kenilworth neighborhood of Ward 7. This will be just the third currently operational market east of the River and will run from Labor Day through Thanksgiving. The Parkside-Kenilworth Farmers [...]
D.C.’s Very High Food Hardship Rate for Households with Children Underscores Need to Protect Nutrition Safety Net FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Jennifer Adach, 202.986.2200 x3018, jadach@frac.org WASHINGTON, D.C. – August 11, 2011 – More than 37 percent of households with children in Washington, D.C. reported in 2009-2010 not having enough money to buy food that [...]
Posted in Access[Cross-posted at Bread for the City] As Bread for the City continues to increase the amount of fresh produce that we provide to our clients, people’s preferences for fresh food increase accordingly. Clients often want to know where they can find affordable fresh food — and we do have some good answers for them. Thanks [...]
Posted in AccessA number of DC area food lovers, educators, activists, and cyclists joined me this May for a tour of urban farms and community gardens around the city. What you may not have known is that along with us on the tour were the editor and photographer of a new, DC-focused, socially-minded magazine.
Posted in Access[Cross-posted at Bread for the City] You may have heard it first in the Washington Post, but we’re pleased to officially announce here that our Glean for the City program is expanding — into the city. That’s right: Glean for the City is now planning to forage from fruit trees growing right here in the [...]
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