Local Food and the Hunger for Connection
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Date: |
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Monday January 29 |
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Time: |
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6pm |
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Location: |
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Lareau Farm Inn, home of
American Flatbread |
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Type of Event: |
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Potluck and
talk/discussion
(please see important info
below about potlucks) |
Join fellow
Localvores for a Potluck dinner at the warm and
comfortable Lareau Farm Inn, home of American Flatbread.
As Localvores, we spend a lot of time thinking about
local food for ourselves, but there is a surprisingly
large number of fellow Vermonters who are going hungry
because they cannot afford to feed themselves and their
families. In the Mad River Valley alone, our food
shelf serves over 100 people.
Food Works at
Two Rivers Center was founded in 1987 to address the
root causes of childhood hunger by returning students
and their communities back to the land through hands-on
food and gardening educational opportunities. Today,
Food Works at Two Rivers Center is emerging as Central
Vermont's hands-on food and agricultural education
center working to strengthen local food systems and
empower children, families, and seniors to grow,
prepare, eat and preserve their own foods. They offer
ongoing classes, workshops and summer camps on food
growing, cooking, food preservation, backyard medicinal
herbs and nutrition basics. For nearly 20 years, Food
Works has never swayed from their unique position as a
grassroots organization that develops community-based
educational approaches to address the growing concerns
of poor nutrition, diet, health, unsustainable land use,
and declining food security. By connecting people back
to the land and the natural world, all of our work
mobilizes people to effect positive change for
themselves and their neighbors.
 Joseph
Kiefer, Founder of Foodworks and Director of
Education, will share inspiring stories of how the
people served by his organization are not only
overcoming hunger, but are learning how to help
themselves by growing, harvesting, and preparing their
own local food. Joseph is a member of the
Governor's Hunger Task Force.
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Give a man a fish and you feed him for a
meal.
Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a
lifetime.
~Ancient Chinese Proverb
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IMPORTANT
INFORMATION ABOUT THE POTLUCKS
- Please do not plan on kitchen
facilities to cook, heat, or chill foods
that you bring to the potluck.
There should be electric outlets at all
potluck sites so you may use a hot
plate, crock pot, etc.
- Bring your own eating utensils,
plates, bowls, cups, etc. We will have
some available for those who do not
bring their own, but that will mean that
they need to be washed and dried, etc.
We are trying to keep extra work to a
minimum and we are also trying not to
use earth un-friendly disposables.
- We will have a donation box at every
event and encourage you to bring an
offering of a non-perishable item or
fresh storage vegetables such as locally
grown potatoes, carrots, turnips.
We will be donating these items each day
to the Mad River Valley Food Shelf.
- Donations from the Hunger Moon Feast
will go to the Mad River Valley Food
Shelf.
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