Project update #2

Sam and I met on Thursday, November 3 to fine-tune our project and came up with the following. We are going to shop at the farmer’s market on Saturday, Nov. 19 to buy ingredients for vegetarian chili that we will serve during our presentation. Sam’s part of the project will be to track where the food is coming from, how far it traveled, how much it cost, and the time it took to buy and cook the meal.

My focus for the project will be to interview Micah Hahn, the program director of FH King, the 1.5 acre student run farm in the Eagle Heights Community Garden. I will ask her about what they do on campus, how to get involved, how the organization started, and how it serves the campus community.

The idea connecting these two parts of our project is supporting COMMUNITY.  The local community benefits when we know where our food is coming from and who is benefiting from the money spent on it. FH King is supported by student seg fees and hand out all of the food that they harvest every Friday from 1-3pm from late May-October during their Harvest Handouts. They all provide various workshops throughout the school year for free, focusing on various subjects such as growing your own mushrooms or identifying edible wild plants. The farmers who we support at the farmer’s market take the money to directly benefit their farms so that they can continue to grow food and support their families. The money spent, therefore, is an investment in this type of food service and a “vote” for it to continue.