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Healthy Eating Active Living Learning Circle: Increase Access and Reduce Waste: Healthy, Local Food - WNC
Date and time
Location
Blue Ridge Women in Agriculture
171 Grand Blvd. Boone, NC 28607Description
Register NOW for Healthy Eating Active Living Learning Circle:
Increase Access and Reduce Waste: Healthy, Local Food
Tired of throwing away veggies? Looking for healthy foods for your community? Explore strategies to get healthy foods and get them to the people who need them most.
AGENDA
9:30 AM Registration
10:00 –
10:30 AM Welcome and Introduction
- Resourceful Communities Overview
- Food Waste Quiz
- Overview Food Access and Food Waste: Data, Challenges and Solutions
10:30 –
11:30 AM Partner Overview
- Tour and Talk: What do they do and what’s changing? Important partnerships and resources?
11:30 AM – Lunch
12:30 NOON
12:45 –
2:15 PM Capacity Building: Project Planning with Partnership Focus
2:15 –
2:30 PM Wrap-Up!
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Resourceful Communities helps grassroots leaders create opportunities that preserve the rural landscape, access much-needed resources, and celebrate unique local cultures. We support a network of community organizations, faith-based groups, and resource partners who provide additional support through training, materials or funding. Our triple-bottom-line approach generates economic, environmental and social justice benefits in partner communities.
We help strengthen community organizations through capacity building, support on-the-ground projects through small grants, and nurture a growing network of grassroots partners and resource providers. Our effective combination of direct support, skills building, and connections to resources nurtures real change where it’s needed the