CFGN folks,

 

Check out some of the creative actions these youth have come up with:

 

• Hand out fresh carrots at a busy downtown square during lunch!

• Host an Eat Local Challenge, a competition in your organization to see who can maintain a diet consisting of local food for a week.

• Building a raised bed on the steps of City Hall

• Make vegetable hats – have a contest for the best hat
• Hold a food costume fashion show, with announcer giving nutrition facts for each food

• Team up with other youth groups that do service (have girl scouts sell local produce door to door with their cookies)

 

Any ideas for an event in Madison???

 

See their website for more information (http://www.thefoodproject.org/blast/internal1.asp?ID=226).

 

Dawn

 

EAT IN, ACT OUT WEEK!

(Organized by the Food Project’s BLAST Youth Initiative)

What: Eat In, Act Out is a week of events happening worldwide to promote local and healthy food.  Eat In, Act Out refers to using local food, cooking food yourself instead of eating fast food or take out, and taking action to change our food system.

When: August 1-7, 2005

Why: Through Eat In, Act Out week, we hope to:

• Encourage everyone in our communities to eat locally and think critically about their food choices. 
• Build a sustainable food system where everyone has access to affordable healthy food.
• Highlight the capabilities and importance of youth in this movement.
• Engage youth in positive forms of social activism.
• Strengthen our BLAST connections and build the movement by working together on a national event.

Where/Who: We’re inviting YOU to participate in your own community.   We encourage organizations and individuals across the country and around the world to plan events during Eat In, Act Out week to raise awareness of local food.

How: You can do a single event or multiple.   It can be for one hour or 7 days.  It’s up to you! 

• Get inspired by what others have done!
• Download our manual with tips on planning Eat In, Act Out events with youth!
• Read the transcript of our teleconference about how to get involved
• Send your own event ideas and to mpless@... and we will post them here on our website!

 

 

Dawn Burgardt

Community Gardens Division VISTA

Community Action Coalition

1717 N. Stoughton Road

Madison, WI 53704

(608) 246-4730 x238

dburgardt@...