From PlanIt Green:
Join PlanItGreen for this exciting webinar on local food resiliency featuring Star Farm, the Buy Fresh Buy Local Campaign and the Illinois Harvest of the Month Farm to School Program. There will be opportunities to connect to each of these initiatives as a consumer, an advocate or as an investor.
About Our Speakers
Stephanie Dunn, Executive Director
Star Farm Chicago is a women-led non-profit urban farm and landscaping company with 4 years of CSA service, backyard garden builds, and farm dinners. Rooted in the Back of the Yards neighborhood on Chicago's Southside, Star Farm works to build food sovereignty and opportunity for women, children, and adults and youth with disabilities through vocational training and horticultural therapy, while supporting local schools and food pantries to grow their own food.
Molly Gleason, Communications Director
The Illinois Stewardship Alliance is a statewide non-profit organization that brings together farmers and eaters across Illinois to solve problems in the food system. Through community organizing, we work with farmers across the state to create and champion farmer-led policy solutions, and we work with eaters to use their purchasing power and political power to support farmers and drive policy change. In 2019, the Alliance brought together a coalition of food and farm organizations across the state to launch Buy Fresh Buy Local Illinois, a statewide promotional program to support local food. The Buy Fresh Buy Local Illinois program aims to grow the local food economy by making it easy for shoppers to find and support local farms and the businesses that carry their products.
Diane Chapeta, Farm to School Program Manager
Seven Generations Ahead (SGA) is a statewide non-profit dedicated to its mission of being a catalyst for sustainable and healthy communities. Illinois Harvest of the Month – one of two SGA farm to school programs - helps school districts, feeding sites, and early care centers source and celebrate seasonal, local food. Each month, registered participants highlight a different local item on their cafeteria menus or in their school gardens. Illinois Harvest of the Month brings more money to local farmers, healthier food to the cafeteria, and educational opportunities for students about healthy eating.
Please RSVP to Lisa at admin@sevengenerationsahead.org
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