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Fair Food Farm Bill Video |
August 28, 2007
Twinkie vs. Apple Showdown
Check out the latest video from the makers of The Meatrix. This time, they take on The Farm Bill. Please send the link to friends and family. To learn more about the Farm Bill, see the Farm Bill 101 from Food and Water Watch , and keep up to date on Farm Bill 2007 organizing with the Community Food Security Coalition , Community Alliance with Family Farmers , the California Coalition for Food and Farming , and the National Campaign for Sustainable Agriculture .
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August 22, 2007
Today's New York Times included a great article by Joan Nathan: Of Church and Steak: Farming for the Soul . Joan writes about the work being done across the Jewish, Christian, and Muslim faiths to encourage sustainable agriculture, CSAs, responsible meat consumption and stewardship of the land within these faith communities.
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New Report on 10 Years of California Farm to School |
August 21, 2007
The Center for Food & Justice at Occidental College has just announced the release of a new report on ten years of Farm to School in California - A Growing Movement: A Decade of Farm to School in California. The farm to school movement began in California more than 10 years ago. This report tells the story of work undertaken by farm to school proponents in California and chronicles the emergence of the program, and the impacts it has had on students, farmers, and communities around the state.
Visit the centers website to download the report: http://departments.oxy.edu/uepi/cfj/index.htm
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School Lunch Funding Opportunity |
Here's a great funding opportunity for school lunch:
Hidden Valley Announces Expanded Love Your Veggies Grant Campaign
Deadline: November 30, 2007
The Hidden Valley Food Products Company http://hiddenvalley.com/ ,
a subsidiary of the Clorox Company http://www.clorox.com/ ,
will be awarding more than half a million dollars in total grants
in 2008 to elementary schools across the United States to support
increased access to, and consumption of, fresh vegetables during
lunch.
The grant program -- the Love Your Veggies Nationwide
School Lunch Campaign -- was created to help schools implement
a recent federally mandated local wellness policy that requires
schools to develop and execute programs to improve their students'
overall health and nutrition, and in response to the overwhelming
shortage of funds available for the execution of these programs.
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Farm to Institution Connection Event |
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On July 25, 2007 at the Bon Appetit Cafe of Holy Names University in Oakland, Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF), UC Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education Program (SAREP), and The Center for Agroecology & Sustainable Food Systems (CASFS) co-hosted a special event entitled Farm to Institution Connection. The goal was to share information about successful initiatives related to providing local and sustainable food to institutional buyers such as hospitals, corporate and school cafeterias. Anya Fernald the CAFF Program Director asked Michael Dimock to provide opening comments for the day's activity. Here are his extended comments, which when delivered were foreshortened to meet the morning's time requirements. Michael's comments focus on the role of values in the development of a new mainstream in the food and farming system.
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