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Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Ames
Sunday Brunches, Holiday Meals,
Food Information
An unofficial page. Some of the material will
eventually be transferred to the official UUFA
site.
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Promoting
and Celebrating the Use of Locally Grown Food
a UUFA
Green Sanctuary project
Iowa Grown
Snacks for the Super Bowl, a Movie Night, or other
occasion |
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The
Fellowship will celebrate its sixth annual Iowa grown brunch
on January 22, 2012, following the second Sunday morning
program. The meal is offered free of charge by the UUFA
Meals Group, and all Fellowship members, friends, and
visitors are welcome. No reservations needed.
The idea is to use as many
ingredients as possible that have been grown in Iowa. It
is a matter of good taste and environmental justice.
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Eating
local foods benefits all of us
in six ways: improved public
health, environmental
protection, farmland protection,
a more secure homeland, economic
sustainability, and social
health. I like to know the
farmers who raise my food. |
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Erv Klaas:
natural resources
conservationist, Leopold Fellow,
UUFA Green Sanctuary Committee |
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We all
want our soil, our water and our air clean for our
children when their time comes to inherit the earth.
Food is a huge part of that. You can start today by
paying attention to the food you eat. |
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Fedele Bauccio, Founder and CEO of Bon
Appetit Management Company
and keynote speaker at the 2012
Practical Farmer of Iowa annual meeting.
Read his editorial about local,
sustainable, and profitable food in the
Register. |
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more local foods testimonials |
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Garden Talk and Seed Swap
Join Mark Runquist, Steven
Cannon, and other UU gardening
experts in the Fireside Room on
January 22 (the Iowa grown meal
day) during the social hour to
talk gardening and exchange
seeds.
Gardening and Food Yahoo Group
There is an unofficial UUFA
gardening and food message board
via Yahoo. Follow this
link or contact
Helen if you wish to join. |
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Green Sanctuary Food Project
Helen
Gunderson, Jan Vine, and Jill
Mortenson are co-coordinators
for the Fellowship's Green
Sanctuary project on promoting
and celebrating local foods.
They hope to provide weekly
information on this page. For
instance:
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January 10:
Iowa-grown potatoes, carrots, pie
pumpkins and winter squash are sited
at Wheatsfield Coop. |
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Video
(length 4:21) Audubon County Family Farmers talk
about the value of local foods.
Video
(length 8:30) CSA owner, Angela Tedesco of
Turtle Farm near Granger, talks about local and
organic food.
2011 UUFA Iowa meal
menu.
2008 UUFA Iowa soup lunch food sources.
Thoughts about the
importance of using
locally-grown food and related
matters. Recipes for some of
the good food at UUFA meals and
books about food
and agriculture. |
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The brunch is offered by
the Fellowship's Meals Group
and coordinated by Helen, Jan, and Jill. They
will be recruiting people to bring food and/or to help
with some aspect of set up, hospitality, food service,
and cleanup.
In focusing on Iowa-grown
food, the Fellowship joins many organizations in
promoting the use of locally and regionally grown food.
It’s a a way of fostering individual, community,
environmental, and economic health.
Iowa imports 90 to 95
percent of its food at a cost of $947 billion dollars a
year. If one Iowa county could produce an additional
five percent of its food needs, the resulting increase
in income for the county and its citizens would be $30
to 40 million.*
If you have feedback regarding
the Iowa-grown brunch or wish to prepare food or otherwise help make
it a success, please contact Helen or the
UUFA
office.
*Data is from the Leopold
Center for Sustainable Agriculture. The center was
established under Iowa’s Groundwater Protection Act of
1987.
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Community
Supported Agriculture Fair
January 28 at Wheatsfield Cooperative
WHEATSFIELD COOPERATIVE
413
Northwestern Avenue, Ames
(515) 232-4094
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This page is provided
by UUFA Meals Group coordinator,
Helen Gunderson.
Eventually, it will be redesigned and become part of the
UUFA web site. |