Marin grass roots TEEN group advocates healthy food at school
Teens Turning Green is spearheading an unprecedented initiative called Project Lunch at the start of the new school year. The goal of Project Lunch is to inspire students, in partnership with Food Service Directors, teachers and community stakeholders, to green school lunch programs providing healthy food at all schools for all students. We want to help create healthy, nutritious, locally-sourced, and organic food offerings, with zero waste and a small footprint along each aspect of the meal at schools and in student lunchboxes. In the process we will partner with existing healthy lunch programs, highlight best practices and facilitate change.
Get Involved: We are looking for students to participate in Food Clubs and adult community mentors to volunteers. Please let us know if you want to get involved!
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Join a Project Lunch Food Club:
Food Clubs are groups of students, food service staff, and other members of the school community united around the goal of bringing healthy, local, sustainable and fabulous food offerings to their lunch programs and creating community on campus around food. Through fun, engaging, and experiential learning, Food Club members will learn about their school’s food program, take field trips to farms, farmers markets and green grocers, prepare food, host chef demos, and even participate in the renaming and redecorating of the school cafeterias to help evolve the spaces into vibrant campus centers. They will be the creators and innovators of their clubs.
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Project Lunch School Week - A week of school lunch education and celebration! Monday September 20 Friday September 24, 2010
Schools throughout Marin County are encouraged to participate in Project Lunch Week. During that week, in partnership with the Project Lunch Stakeholders Collaborative,students and community members will connect to their farmers, food purveyors and green grocers to begin the discussion around sustainable food programs in every school. A schedule of programs and events for each day of that week and information on all the other exciting initiatives and resources of Project Lunch is available by clicking the links below.
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