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Slow Food Eat-in on the Plaza on Labor Day
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| Fresh food - Kindergarteners worked in the school garden last year at Healdsburg Elementary School. Slow Food Sonoma County sponsors school gardens to promote “real food” in local schools. - PHOTO from Tribune archive |
Nationwide event hopes to bring awareness to nutrition in schools
By Kerrie Russell
Tribune Editor
Slow Food Sonoma County, North is hosting an Eat-in on the Healdsburg Plaza on Monday evening as part of a national day of action to get “real food” into school lunch programs.
Bill Hawn, who lives in Alexander Valley and is helping to coordinate the local event, said there is a growing epidemic among children and his group is trying to bring awareness to the problem and a solution.
“One in four children are overweight and one in three are pre-diabetic,” he said. “They need to eat better food, and it needs to start in the schools.”
Hawn said the Slow Food group believes in the principle of supporting good, clean, fair food for everyone.
“With some of the low-income kids, this is the one meal they are guaranteed per day and it should be better than unhealthy fast food.”
Slow Food Sonoma County, North has also partnered with many schools throughout Healdsburg, Geyserville and Cloverdale to sponsor school gardens.
“We know there are parents and teachers who would like to see improvement and the kids need to know what fresh food is like and where it comes from,” Hawn said.
Hawn said Healdsburg schools have already begun working toward improving the food and the school gardens have helped.
The group is sponsoring a garden at the Fitch Mountain Elementary campus that he expects will be planted in the next few months. West Side and Alexander Valley already have thriving gardens and the group’s committee works with representatives for each of the schools.
The Eat-in on the Plaza will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Bring your own picnic along with plates, utensils, beverages (excluding alcohol) and something to sit on.
Participants are urged to bring goodies from their gardens for a local, healthy food tasting. There will be information on what you can do to get “real food” in local and national schools.
Kenneth Rochford of Medlock Ames Winery said they will be supporting the event and also helping to spread the word about The School Garden Network of Sonoma County, which fuels school food projects through instructional gardens in schools. Medlock Ames will provide ongoing support for the organization by providing grant money, hands-on assistance, and portions of the fees from their new tasting room this fall. “Eventually, we hope that schools can grow food for their own lunch tables,” he said.
For more information about the Eat-in or Slow Food, go to www.slowfoodsonomacounty.org.
Bill Hawn, who lives in Alexander Valley and is helping to coordinate the local event, said there is a growing epidemic among children and his group is trying to bring awareness to the problem and a solution.
“One in four children are overweight and one in three are pre-diabetic,” he said. “They need to eat better food, and it needs to start in the schools.”
Hawn said the Slow Food group believes in the principle of supporting good, clean, fair food for everyone.
“With some of the low-income kids, this is the one meal they are guaranteed per day and it should be better than unhealthy fast food.”
Slow Food Sonoma County, North has also partnered with many schools throughout Healdsburg, Geyserville and Cloverdale to sponsor school gardens.
“We know there are parents and teachers who would like to see improvement and the kids need to know what fresh food is like and where it comes from,” Hawn said.
Hawn said Healdsburg schools have already begun working toward improving the food and the school gardens have helped.
The group is sponsoring a garden at the Fitch Mountain Elementary campus that he expects will be planted in the next few months. West Side and Alexander Valley already have thriving gardens and the group’s committee works with representatives for each of the schools.
The Eat-in on the Plaza will be held from 5 to 8 p.m. Bring your own picnic along with plates, utensils, beverages (excluding alcohol) and something to sit on.
Participants are urged to bring goodies from their gardens for a local, healthy food tasting. There will be information on what you can do to get “real food” in local and national schools.
Kenneth Rochford of Medlock Ames Winery said they will be supporting the event and also helping to spread the word about The School Garden Network of Sonoma County, which fuels school food projects through instructional gardens in schools. Medlock Ames will provide ongoing support for the organization by providing grant money, hands-on assistance, and portions of the fees from their new tasting room this fall. “Eventually, we hope that schools can grow food for their own lunch tables,” he said.
For more information about the Eat-in or Slow Food, go to www.slowfoodsonomacounty.org.
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