Food and Kids in action at Isaac Dickson School Garden

Issue Workshop Schedule

January 22nd-----Pre Workshop Reflection (1st mtg. w/grp)
January 27th------Molly Nicholie, ASAP (speaker)
January 29th------Leigh Pettus, MANNA FoodBank(speaker)
February 5th------MannaBundance Backpack Prgm. (service)
February 10th-----Lynette Vaughn-Hensley, BCSD Child Nutritionist (speaker)
February 12th-----Isaac Dickson Elementary School Garden (service w/s students)
February 19th-----Isaac Dickson Elementary School Garden
February 26th-----Isaac Dickson Elementary School Garden
March 5th---------Isaac Dickson Elementary School Garden
March 12th--------Black Mountain Comm. Garden (service w/students)
March 26th--------Tim Rhodes, DSS (speaker)
April 2nd----------Emma Family Food Resources (tour/service)
April 9th-----------Finish up meeting/EXPO (of all WWC Issue Workshops)

Welcome!

This is the blog for the Food and Kids Social Issue Service Workshop at Warren Wilson College. As one of six workshops, each focusing on a certain social issue (AIDS, land conservation, affordable housing, homelessness, and economic justice are the others), we hope to experience a comprehensive view of problems and successes related to food and kids in Western North Carolina.

At the semester's end, we will have taken trips to school and community gardens and a food bank as well as talked to policy makers and community advocates. We will experience this combination of direct service and policy advocacy education to achieve a more complete understanding of the food-related problems affecting children.

This blog will serve as a tool for us to record our experiences as well as a resource to share.