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Education
Our members create and deliver food and nutrition based educational programs to schools, chefs, farmers and communities. We organize field trips for students to see farms and farmers markets.
Advocacy
Our members organize farmer-chef conferences and partner with other locally based food organizations to promote local, sustainable food sources within each community.
Philanthropy
Our members raise thousands of dollars to support local food, farming and gardening projects from farmers markets and school and rehabilitative gardens to educational programs and scholarships.
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Welcome to Green Tables - a farm and garden philanthropic initiative of Les Dames d'Escoffier International
Green Tables showcases the work of LDEI chapters engaged in linking urban and rural farms and gardens to school, restaurant and kitchen tables. Please explore the resources and tools we offer to further this initiative in your chapter community, and join us as we celebrate the work underway.
Headlines
- New Green Tables Website Section Launches
The Green Tables Steering Committee of Les Dames d’Escoffier International (LDEI) announces the launch of its new section within the LDEI website, www.ldei.org. “ “Our committee set out to streamline the wealth of information we...
- Green Tables Steering Committee welcomes new co-chair.
Dame Hilary Baum (New York), the 2009 returning co-chair of Les Dames d’Escoffier International’s (LDEI) Green Tables initiative announces that Dame Barbara Petit (Atlanta) will join the steering committee as co-chair, as founding chair...
- Kansas City Celebrates 10 years with Top Ten Green Tables Initiatives.
As the Kansas City Dames approach their 10th anniversary, they have a plan – a Green Tables initiative for each year of their history. One of their initiatives is called, "New Roots for Refugees." It is a program started by Dame Katherine...
“The LDEI Green Tables Initiative … means paying attention to where food comes from, how it is grown, and how good it is… What could be better for us and for the planet?"
— Marion Nestle, professor of nutrition and food studies, NYU and author of Food Politics and What to Eat www.foodpolitics.com
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