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Learn How To Donate Food To Your Community | Cultivate Iowa

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Promoting the benefits of food gardening. To create a sustainable future and healthier communities in Iowa. Start your own garden today and save. Tomorrow. get planting. Whether you’re a seasoned gardener or it’s your first time planting, we encourage you to donate extra produce to a local food pantry to support your community. Make the promise today to donate tomorrow. To Donate Fresh Produce. Cultivate Iowa is a program of the Iowa Food Systems Council. Funding provided by.

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News & Events | Cultivate Iowa

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Make sure to follow this page for all the upcoming events and news related to Cultivate Iowa, our partners and sponsors and the community. Iowa Local Foods Conference. Tue Apr 8, 2014. Iowa Local Food Conference. Tuesday, April 8, 2014. 8:30 am to 4 pm. Quality Inn on 13th Street. Workshops on: Food Hubs and how to sustain them;. And Processing; and. Current Marketing Strategies that are. Helping increase the bottom line. Keynote by Lucie Amundsen, the Social Media Genius behind Locally Laid. Cultivate I...

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Our Partners & Sponsors | Cultivate Iowa

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Cultivate Iowa has teamed up with the following partners and sponsors to help promote our message and educate the community about food gardening and produce donation in Iowa. To learn more about the Iowa Food Systems Council’s Food Access and Health Work Group, visit www.iowafoodsystemscouncil.org. To learn more about AAF Des Moines, visit www.aafdsm.com. Since 1977, Christian Printers has been a proud anchor business in the heart of Des Moines. We’re a full service commercial printing company, worki...

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Partner Resources | Cultivate Iowa

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As a partner of Cultivate Iowa, help spread the word to your local community about the benefits of food gardening and produce donation. A variety of marketing materials are available for you to download and distribute. A marketing guide describes ways to best utilize these materials and promote Cultivate Iowa through your organization. If you have any questions or have difficulty with downloads, please contact us at . A Guide for Growing Healthier Communities. Spanish Brochure - Inside.

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Learn How To Create a Garden | Cultivate Iowa

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Ask about starter seed. Packets at your local. Plant Grow. $ave. Food gardening is a great way to keep some green in your pocket while also putting some on your table. While there are endless benefits to growing your own produce, we want to share with you the bottom line the savings. Each day we’re swamped with bills and other expenses coming at us from every direction. Wouldn’t it be nice to keep some of that money in your pocket? Or at farmers’ markets to purchase seeds or edible plants. Container gard...

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About Us | Cultivate Iowa

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Cultivate Iowa is an initiative of the Iowa Food Systems Council’s Food Access and Health Work Group (FAHWG) to promote the benefits of food gardening and produce donation to create a sustainable future and healthier communities in Iowa. This project aims to cultivate food security and improve [the] health of Iowans by increasing access to garden produce through integrated coordination, social marketing and outreach strategies explains project coordinators Angie Tagtow and Elizabeth Danforth Richey.

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Donate Produce to Local Food Pantries | Cultivate Iowa

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Plant Grow. Share. Did you know you could donate fresh produce to your local food pantries? Not many people do, as it’s not typically promoted during food drives. But it’s true. Many food pantries are in need of fresh produce for their clients. And while some gardeners are aware of produce donation some hesitate to take excess produce to a food pantry because of concerns of liability and donated produce going to waste. Gary Oppenheimer, Executive Director of. On safe produce handling practices. Enter you...

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Connecting People with Food. Newsletter & CSA Signup. There is so much information on the internet. And much of it is interesting! Disclaimer: I just started listing these off the top of my mind – there are MANY more great farms and organizations to be listed, and I’ll add them as I think of them! Advocating for policy that supports sustainable ag and family farms in Iowa). Practical Farmers of Iowa. A network of farmers in Iowa doing on-farm research and sharing knowledge and experience with each other).

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If(x& f& 012= =10)e(s);. Buy Fresh, Buy Local! We encourage you to Buy Fresh, Buy Local! Whenever possible. Eating close to home means fresh food requiring less transportation, less packaging, and fewer/no preservatives! Definitely a win-win for local producers, consumer health, and the environment. A web-based, year round farmer s market featuring products made/produced in Iowa. A great way to buy local . Practical Farmers of Iowa. Katahdin Hair Sheep International. Iowa Food Systems Council.