For more information on how to make a difference locally contact:
Crossroads Urban Center 801-364-7765
One World Everybody Eats 801-519-2002.
Utahns Against Hunger 801-328-2561
Wasatch Community Gardens 801-359-2658 |
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For more information please email Denise Cerreta.
Steps you can take today to make changes for tomorrow…
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Personal Choices
- Be mindful of food waste while shopping, dining out, and cooking at home.
- Plant a garden and share your harvest.
- Plant edible landscape; make your next tree a fruit tree.
- Go through your cupboards and give away anything you haven’t used in a year.
- Get involved with local programs that encourage urban farming like Wasatch Community Gardens www.wasatchgardens.org, Salt Lake Community Action Program www.slcap.org, Utah Community Gardens Network www.utahgrows.org, and Red Butte Garden University of Utah www.redbuttegarden.org.
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Direct Service
- Contact your local emergency food pantry to find out what needs are most urgent.
- Volunteer to deliver meals or food boxes to home bound individuals.
- Have extra produce? Donate it to your local emergency food pantry.
Consider purchasing “shares” for low-income families in Community Support Agriculture program. A CSA is a program in which a farmer sells shares in his harvest, and then distributes produce to those shareholders throughout the growing season.
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Advocacy
- Support efforts to make federal nutrition programs more accessible. Contact Utahns Against Hunger to find out how to get involved. Gina Cornia 328-2561.
- Contact your elected officials about issues you care about, i.e.; open space, funding for nutrition programs, and other related issues.
- Run for office on the local, state or national level.
- Attend Citizen’s Day at the Legislature, call the Utah Community Action Partnership Association for more information, 801-433-3025.
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Supporting Local Economies
- Support your local farmer’s market.
- Ask your farmer’s market/road side stands to consider accepting food stamp benefits.
- Support a local farmer by buying a share of his/her harvest through a community supported agriculture program.
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