Thursday, May 9, 2013

--LOCAVORE JOB DESCRIPTION--

---JOB WANTED---
Needed: A Locavore
Description: Supporting small local food businesses by going to CSA's (Community Supported Agricultures) and Saturday Markets. Going to classrooms (K-8) Every other Wednesday to talk about the Harvest of The Month the next day. Records data on who is having hot lunch (lunch at school). Serving food from our garden in the cafeteria. Calculating how far some food suppliers are and how much gas they use. Taking unhealthy foods from the cafeteria and replacing them with healthy and delicious!
--WARNING, WILL BE FUN AND GOOD FOR THE EARTH--

Monday, May 6, 2013

Our One Minute Speech


Starting with Kindergarten and working up to 8th grade, we go from classroom to classroom talking about the Harvest Of The Month coming the next day. In the beginning, not many people took part in Harvest Of The Month, or H.O.M. , but many posters and hard work later, the line now goes down the hall, with the last H.O.M. serving 66 students. Using their motivation as our inspiration, we increase good by serving local food in our cafeteria and supporting CSA’s, which we calculated can be as close as 20 miles away and only using 4 gallons of gas. By decreasing bad, we use leatche instead of chemical fertilizers in our garden, and reducing air pollution from transporting foods, which we calculated can be as far as 2,850 miles away, and using 570 gallons of gas. That a difference of 2,830 miles and 566 gallons of gas wasted and polluted into the air.
But there are still unlocal foods in our cafeteria, like chocolate milk and Uncrustables. We plan to improve by removing items like these. We’ve used connection circles to help improve our view on being a locavore, but we changed it in a creative way and made a connection pear.

Delivered 6/6/13 at The May PPS Board Meeting