Food Education Empowerment and Sustainability Team (FEEST) Update!


PLUM CRAZY! (past event)
Community Harvest event!
WED August 27th
6:30-8:30pm
4217 SW Oregon St. at a Senior facility in West Seattle
Plan: We will not have a traditional FEEST dinner, Ashley and cooking crew will make sack lunches that we can eat outside before the event.
We will transport you all to Plum Crazy in the van, which is in the Youngstown parking lot.
Blurb: Plum Crazy! Get some ideas of what to do with those plentiful local fresh plums.  Using fruit from West Seattle trees, we will learn how to make Plum Butter, Dried Plums, Fruit Leather, and a delicious Plum Coffee Cake. Share your own stories for preserving fruit!
*Note: for F.E.E.S.T. next week (wed. Aug.27), meet at our regular time. We will be having our sack dinners at 5:30.  The van will be coming back to Youngstown by 8:45-9PM.

MARRA FARMS! (coming up!)
SAT September 13th!
10AM-2PM
Harvest Work Party
Marra Farms
Solid Ground, 1501 North 45th Street, Seattle, WA 98103-6708
We will visit Marra farms!! Please let me or Alberto know if you can make this event. We will give you more details closer to the date.  We will also bemeet here at Youngstown to get transported in the van.

PARK(ING) DAY!
September 19th Time: TBA
Location: Parking spot in front of Youngstown.  We still have decide what we want to display or do in our parking spot.
Background: International movement to reclaim space, tons of groups around Seattle will be utilizing a parking spot somewhere in the city to display art, create a mini park and show other talents.

FEEST DINNER REMINDER:

UPDATE June 2, 2008

California Center Mini Grant (word document) click here

March 13th-16th, 2008

Five youth ages 14-20 from Burien, Federal Way, White Center, and the Delridge nieghborhood in West Seattle represented the King County Collaborative at a national Food & Fitness meeting in Tucson, Arizona. The five, along with about 40 additional youth from the other 8 Food & Fitness communiities across the nation came together to talk and learn about the food and fitness environments and systems that exist in their communities. As a part of their learning, the youth were taken on a tour to explore aspects of the food system in Tucson, including visiting a soup kitchen, food bankd and an "edible garden". In addition to visiting the urban Tucson community, the youth were also invited to participate in programming at the Tohono O'odham Reservation. the communtiy visits were a favorite of the youth, along with activities such as the "5 Ms" in which the youth were taught about various aspects of marketing the Initiative when returning home. The youth are excited and have already started thinking about what they'd vision for their communities.

Click for conference agenda (pdf)

For more information contact Quyet Huynh