Square Foot Gardening Classes (2 parts) - March 7 and March 14. You can plant it, grow it, and serve it . . . with just four square feet of easy-to-manage gardening. Whether you have one small sunny spot in the yard or on the back porch of a townhouse, there's plenty of room to grow a season's worth of fresh, organic vegetables for you and your family. Bob and Lyn Bernstein will show you how to build your own box, mix the magic soil ingredients, and plant your garden. (We'll use the demonstration garden for a Spring Break camp and one of our summer programs!)
Choose one or both parts. DNC Members: $20 per class; General Public: $25 per class. Space is limited - register soon!
Dunwoody Nature Center is a non-profit organization established to develop, improve and preserve 22 acres of Dunwoody Park as a natural classroom for environmental education. Located at 5343 Roberts Drive in DeKalb County's Dunwoody Park. Call 770-394-3322 for more information or visit www.dunwoodynature.org.
Monday, February 23, 2009
Thursday, February 12, 2009
How to feed a million people
This is amazing! I can't get these pictures to load but if you see the web link you will see photos of this.
See this article about a guy in Naples FL who puts together packets of rice, protein and flavoring to make nutritious meals for $.10 a serving -- more than 3.5 million as of this last December -- and that's in just 9 months!
http://www.naples-daily-news.com/news/2008/mar/09/rotary-club-naples-distributes-its-millionth-rice-/
This program is through the group Steve Popper started, Kids Against Hunger -- http://kidsagainsthungerofswfl.org/Contact_Us.php
Want to do this in your town? contact them at: info@kidsagainsthungerofswfl.org
Churches, youth groups, community groups help do this in Naples -- why not here?
What is a packaging event?
A packaging event is a community-involved project. During the Event, participants will be trained and supervised in how to package the food. Training will take about ten minutes, the rest of the time will be spent packaging the food. There is no heavy lifting. There are jobs for everyone regardless of age or ability. Some participants will be pouring the ingredients into the bags, others will be weighing the bags, others will be sealing the bags, runners will bring the sealed bags to people who box and palletize the finished meals. People as young as three years old have participated. Church groups, civic organizations, schools and senior citizen groups have all participated in packaging the Kids Against Hunger Meals.
How are the meals packaged?
Packaging meals are simple. The ingredients of rice, soy protein, dried vegetables, vitamins/minerals and chicken flavoring are a complete, nutritious meal, with packaged meals having been sent throughout the world. There are 6 meals to a bag, and 36 bags to a box. Each box contains 216 meals. There are over 285,000 meals to a container.
How long does it take to package meals?
A typical packaging event lasts about two hours. During that time, each person normally packages around 350 meals.
An event with 285 people will package 100,000 meals in two hours!
How much does it cost?
Each meal costs $0.12. With the news of food costs rising throughout the world, the fact that our costs
remain so low is a major component to our success. Packaging Event hosts are asked to raise money to cover the cost of the number of meals packaged at their event. The standard donation is $25 per person at each event.
There are NO administrative charges. 100% of all money raised goes to pay for the cost of the meals.
So where do the meals go?
Kids Against Hunger gives the meals away free of charge. We have set up a distribution network utilizing the Harry Chapin Food Bank, and Collier Harvest. Between both organizations the meals are distributed to over 200 agencies in Southwest Florida, located in Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades Counties. Some of the agencies that distribute the Kids Against Hunger Meals include, St Matthew's House, Shelter for Abused Women, Immokalee Friendship House, and Guadalupe Family Center. We are committed to distribute as many meals possible in Southwest Florida. In addition we have sent food to Jamaica and Haiti, as hurricane relief and in response to food riots.
See this article about a guy in Naples FL who puts together packets of rice, protein and flavoring to make nutritious meals for $.10 a serving -- more than 3.5 million as of this last December -- and that's in just 9 months!
An International Food Relief Campaign
Meals Packaged to Date:
3,815,912
http://www.naples-daily-news.com/news/2008/mar/09/rotary-club-naples-distributes-its-millionth-rice-/
This program is through the group Steve Popper started, Kids Against Hunger -- http://kidsagainsthungerofswfl.org/Contact_Us.php
Want to do this in your town? contact them at: info@kidsagainsthungerofswfl.org
Churches, youth groups, community groups help do this in Naples -- why not here?
What is a packaging event?
A packaging event is a community-involved project. During the Event, participants will be trained and supervised in how to package the food. Training will take about ten minutes, the rest of the time will be spent packaging the food. There is no heavy lifting. There are jobs for everyone regardless of age or ability. Some participants will be pouring the ingredients into the bags, others will be weighing the bags, others will be sealing the bags, runners will bring the sealed bags to people who box and palletize the finished meals. People as young as three years old have participated. Church groups, civic organizations, schools and senior citizen groups have all participated in packaging the Kids Against Hunger Meals.
How are the meals packaged?
Packaging meals are simple. The ingredients of rice, soy protein, dried vegetables, vitamins/minerals and chicken flavoring are a complete, nutritious meal, with packaged meals having been sent throughout the world. There are 6 meals to a bag, and 36 bags to a box. Each box contains 216 meals. There are over 285,000 meals to a container.
How long does it take to package meals?
A typical packaging event lasts about two hours. During that time, each person normally packages around 350 meals.
An event with 285 people will package 100,000 meals in two hours!
How much does it cost?
Each meal costs $0.12. With the news of food costs rising throughout the world, the fact that our costs
remain so low is a major component to our success. Packaging Event hosts are asked to raise money to cover the cost of the number of meals packaged at their event. The standard donation is $25 per person at each event.
There are NO administrative charges. 100% of all money raised goes to pay for the cost of the meals.
So where do the meals go?
Kids Against Hunger gives the meals away free of charge. We have set up a distribution network utilizing the Harry Chapin Food Bank, and Collier Harvest. Between both organizations the meals are distributed to over 200 agencies in Southwest Florida, located in Collier, Lee, Charlotte, Hendry and Glades Counties. Some of the agencies that distribute the Kids Against Hunger Meals include, St Matthew's House, Shelter for Abused Women, Immokalee Friendship House, and Guadalupe Family Center. We are committed to distribute as many meals possible in Southwest Florida. In addition we have sent food to Jamaica and Haiti, as hurricane relief and in response to food riots.
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