Food Council to Create Food Literacy Resource Guide

A primary goal of the Food Council’s Food Literacy Working Group (FLWG) is to increase County residents’ access to healthy cooking, nutrition, and food safety education and resources. As part of that mission, our FLWG is currently creating a comprehensive “Food Literacy Resource Guide” which will more effectively connect County residents who seek to improve their culinary skills and/or knowledge of nutrition and food safety with the local organizations that provide these services. In addition, we hope this resource will also strengthen collaboration and resource sharing among organizations providing food literacy services in the County. The FLWG is collecting basic information from relevant local service providers with the goal of creating a searchable database, print resources, and, possibly, an interactive map and app, for the use of all who access, give referrals to, or provide these services.

Following the creation of the Directory, we will continue our efforts by hosting a series of listening sessions with local providers and residents to identify existing barriers to providing and accessing food education in the community and brainstorm strategies and resources needed to overcome these challenges.

If your organization provides food literacy services in the County and you are interested in being included in this resource guide, please complete the brief Google Form linked below so that the Food Council can accurately represent your organization.

https://goo.gl/forms/7mVrj49cwGkvxrrH2

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Mar 28

Resident and Community Gardening Collaborative

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Mar 28

RainScape Your Yard: Two Part Series

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Apr 3

Food Waste Prevention Working Group Happy Hour

April 3rd 4-6 at 7pm at Locks Brewing in collaboration with Manna Food and Compost Crew! 

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Apr 10

Empowering MD Businesses: A Lunchtime Dive into Commerce Support

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Apr 11

Statewide Trainings for Farmers Market Nutrition Program

The Maryland Department of Agriculture today announced it will host its first round of trainings throughout the state for the Farmers Market Nutrition Program. The program provides fresh, unprepared, locally-grown fruits and vegetables to WIC and Senior participants and expands the awareness, use, and sales of such products at farmers markets.

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Apr 14

TPSS EARTH DAY: POWER TO THE PLANET

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Apr 16

How to Do Business with Montgomery County (Webinar)

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Apr 22

SSL Earth Day Opportunity

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Speed Meet: Virtual Business Networking Event for Montgomery County

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Apr 25

Equitable Land Access Working Group Meeting

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Apr 27

Montgomery County Green Fest

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