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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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Accomplishments
- Planting and harvesting school, rehabilitative, and community gardens across the country
- Awarding scholarships and stipends to students interested in agriculture and culinary arts
- Contributing financial support to programs and initiatives that are devoted to teaching gardening, cooking and nutrition
- Partnering with food banks, agencies, farmers markets to create access for all to fresh, local foods
- Sponsoring Farmer-Chef conferences, farm trips and cooking classes, gardens and greenhouses
- Teaching classes on nutrition, cooking local and traditional foods, and the food business to children
- Developing recipes for and demonstrating cooking techniques at farmers’ markets and schools
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