Northwestern University Sustainable Food Talks: February 2012

Monday, February 27, 2012

This Wednesday's Double Hitter at Northwestern University

Thought there wasn't much going on in the land of food at Northwestern University this week? Think again.
Go to the panel on [Real] Food for Thought: Food Justice and the Evanston Community at 6:30pm and at 7:30pm see the screening of Vegucated.

Wednesday, February 29, 6:30pm, Annenberg G15
Panel on [Real] Food for Thought: Food Justice and the Evanston Community

• Debbie Hillman, chairperson of Evanston Food Council

• Kitt Healy of the Green City Market

• Ellen King of the Evanston Backyard Chicken Committee

• Cynthia Kaspar of Edible Evanston

• Lynn Hyndman of Schools are Gardening in Evanston/Skokie (SAGE)

Wednesday, February 29, 7:30pm, Harris 107

Screening of Vegucated

Part sociological experiment and part adventure comedy, Vegucated is an award-winning, guerrilla-style documentary that follows three meat- and cheese-loving New Yorkers who agree to adopt a vegan diet for six weeks. Lured by tales of weight lost and health regained, they begin to uncover the hidden sides of animal agriculture and soon find themselves risking everything to expose an industry they supported just weeks before. But can their convictions carry them through when times get tough?

Check out the Vegucated movie trailer here... http://tinyurl.com/vegucatedpeek

And find our Facebook event page here

Tuesday, February 21, 2012

NU Food Talks Kick-off Potluck

Friday, February 17, 2012

Official Kick-off NU Food Talks Potluck

Guest Speaker: Ken Dunn of Resource Center and City Farm
Open to the public.

March 6, 6:30pm-8:00pm
Technological Institute, L211
Evanston Campus

RSVP: please signup by following this link or by clicking the above page Potluck RSVP

Bring your own silverware, drinking glass and a dish to pass according to your last name.
A-F Entree
G-L Side or Salad
M-S Dessert
T-Z Beverage

Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Planning Committee Meeting: Feburary 16

Planning Committee Meeting - open to public
February 16, 5:00 - 6:00pm, Evanston Campus, Norris Center, 3rd floor, Alumni Room

Stakeholders involved with our efforts:

Northwestern University:
Office of Sustainability - University Department
NU Cuisine - University Food Service Provider
Wild Roots - Student Organization
NSEC - Student Organization
SEED - Student Organization
ACT for Animals - Student Organization
Real Food Coalition - Student Organization
ESW - Student Organization
NUCHR - Student Organization
Green House - Student Organization

Community Organizations:
The Talking Farm
Evanston Food Policy Council

Wednesday, February 1, 2012

Meeting Announcements

Interested in joining our efforts? We would love to have you become part of our thoughtful dialogue on sustainable food systems.

Planning Committee Meeting
February 9, 5:00 - 6:15pm, Evanston Campus, Norris Center, 3rd floor, Alumni Room

Stakeholders involved with our efforts:

Northwestern University:
Office of Sustainability - University Department
NU Cuisine - University Food Service Provider
Wild Roots - Student Organization
NSEC - Student Organization
SEED - Student Organization
ACT for Animals - Student Organization
Real Food Coalition - Student Organization
ESW - Student Organization
NUCHR - Student Organization
Green House - Student Organization

Community Organizations:
The Talking Farm
Evanston Food Council

May Planning Committee Meeting

Dear Friends of NU Food Talks,

Thank you for your support over our first year! We are so very grateful to all of you attending our potlucks, asking questions, networking and guiding our events with your ideas. As we wrap up this academic year we hope you will join us for our Planning Committee meeting end of May to discuss the progress of our program. We'd also like to use this as an opportunity to create partnerships and plan big.

Before we set the date to meet, we would like to know from you if there are any dates on our organization's calendars that are filled. Please use this doodle poll to pick a date.

We hope we can execute two goals during this meeting.

1. First to gather your thoughts, suggestions and ambitions for Food Talks potlucks and events during our third academic year.

2. Secondly, to gather together as a food community to discuss what your organizations' goals are over the next year. What events do you have planned? Who in the community are you trying to reach and what are you doing to reach them? How can we team together to further knowledge about sustainable food and help our community make the best food decisions they can?

Lastly, we'd like to ask for your continued support. As you know many of your organizations are listed on our website (www.nufoodtalks.org) as partner organizations. We'd like to expand our list to include all of your organizations. What we ask is for you to discuss with your leadership signing our Letter of Support. We've gone ahead and attached this for you.

If you have any questions about the Planning Committee, the Letter of Support, or Food Talks in general, please e-mail us at anytime. Don't forget, if you have a potluck talk that you think would be brilliant, please share!!

Thank you all for your work in each of your own individual fields. Without you we wouldn't be one step closer each day to a more sustainable food system.

About Us

NU Sustainable Food Talks is a community program, made of students, faculty, staff and community members, whose mission is to strengthen our sustainable food systems network, our knowledge base, and find ways together to maximize our outreach.

It is our goal to bring stakeholders from all parts of the food system together in order to learn of each other’s challenges in making our food system sustainable and to develop action points on an individual level and initiatives to be implemented by partnering organizations.

Our objective is to host a pot-luck talking group the first Tuesday of each month made up of students, faculty, staff, community members, food advocates and experts. Each meeting will feature an expert from part of our food system who will speak on their work, the issues they face, and how it affects our foodshed.

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