Birchwood Boost: July-September 2017
From July–September, Birchwood BOOST is partnering with Midwest Food Connection to empower children to make healthy decisions around food. Birchwood Boost supports local nonprofits whose work aligns with the Birchwood Café‘s “Good Real Food” values. Food connects us all (everyone eats!) and food systems are a critical point of action for addressing human and environmental health, climate change, and social justice issues.
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Food + Farming Sing-Along
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BECOME A SUPPORTER
Over the years major support from foundations, school PTA’s, and natural food cooperatives have provided a strong funding base for Midwest Food Connection. However, we need to grow our individual donor base in order to reach more schools. If you would like to support us via in-kind donations or through volunteer work, please contact us. We welcome your assistance in reaching more children with our natural foods awareness programs.
TEACHING CHILDREN TO EAT WELL
Midwest Food Connection (MFC) sends educators into elementary school classrooms to teach about healthy eating, local foods, as well as sustainable and organic agriculture.
- We provide children with opportunities to study and taste natural and organic foods.
- We create an understanding in children of the origins and traditions of regionally produced foods.
- We teach children about the methods and benefits of organic and sustainable agriculture.
- We organize and lead field trips to local diversified farms.
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WORKING WITH YOUR SCHOOL
Please contact us to find out how Midwest Food Connection can partner with your school to bring our food and gardening curriculum to your classroom. Click the link to learn more about our programs.
Our extensive curriculum covers topics from whole grains to local produce to immigrant cuisines. We have created elementary school lessons specifically for kindergarten, primary, and intermediate grades, and offer a new middle school curriculum as well. Each lesson has been carefully polished through frequent use in a variety of classroom settings.
Midwest Food Connection has partnered with schools in the Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota area since 1994. During the school year of 2015/6, we taught in 60 schools and taught over 1,000 individual lessons.
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Midwest Food Connection shared a link.
150 Years Later, Black Farmers are Still Fighting to Farm
foodtank.com
For the past century, black farms all over the U.S. have been disappearing.
Have you been enjoying fresh salads with the local bounty this time of year?
As a bonus, your kid will have fun shaking the jar to mix the ingredients!
You're just a quick shake away from super fresh salad dressings that are perfect for summer! Which Salad Dressing do you like most? 😋! FULL RECIPES: bzfd.it/2snhdtd
Eat dirt! No really, it might be good for you.
Opinion | Let’s Add a Little Dirt to Our Diet
nytimes.com
There’s nothing wrong with a little good clean dirt in our food.
Test your climate change mitigation knowledge! Several of these have to do with food... How many can you get right?
How Much Do You Know About Solving Global Warming?
nytimes.com
A new book presents 100 potential solutions. Can you figure out which ones are top ranked?
Midwest Food Connection's 2016-2017 school year in review: MFC by the Numbers
Total lessons taught: 772
Lessons in the garden: 59
Middle school lessons: 27
Number of schools: 52
Number of districts: 8
Schools receiving over 30 lessons: 7
Children taught in total: 7,118
Children taught 4-lesson unit: 2,849
Children taught for second consecutive year: 3,790
Student contact hours: 20,340
Farm trips: 5
Classrooms on farm trips: 13
Teachers on our contact list: 151