Food Day October 24, 2013

Coming up this coming week is Food Day, Oct. 24.



Food Day October 24, 2013

Food Day is a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food and a grassroots campaign for better food policies. It builds all year long and culminates on October 24.


Food Day aims to help people Eat Real. That means cutting back on sugar drinks, overly salted packaged foods, and fatty, factory-farmed meats in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and sustainably raised protein. Food Day envisions shorter lines at fast-food drive-throughs—and bigger crowds at farmers markets.

This annual event involves some of the country’s most prominent food activists, united by a vision of food that is healthy, affordable, and produced with care for the environment, farm animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve it.

With Food Day, we can celebrate our food system when it works and fix it when it’s broken. Across the country, 3,200 events took place in 2012 and 2,300 in 2011, from community festivals in Denver, Savannah, and New York City, to a national conference in Washington, DC, to thousands of school activities in Portland, Minneapolis, and elsewhere.

Why Food Day?

The typical American diet is contributing to obesity, diabetes, heart disease, and other health problems. Those problems cost Americans more than $150 billion per year. Plus, a meat-heavy diet takes a terrible toll on the environment.

Eating Real can save your own health and put our food system on a more humane, sustainable path. With America’s resources, there’s no excuse for hunger, low wages for food and farm workers, or inhumane conditions for farm animals.

Join the Movement

The most important ingredient in Food Day is you! Use October 24 to start—or celebrate—eating a healthier diet and putting your family’s diet on track. Food Day is not just a day; it’s a year-long catalyst for healthier diets and a better food system. Let’s use this energy to make a meaningful and long-lasting difference!


http://www.foodday.org/

Findlay Market - Cincinnati, Ohio

I wanted to pass along some info about one of Cincinnati's oldest continuously operated public markets. It seems everytime you go there you find something new! If your ever in the area make sure you visit!

Findlay Market

1801 Race Street
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Tel. 513-665-4839
Fax. 513-721-3480

Findlay Market is Ohio's oldest continuously operated public market and one of Cincinnati's most cherished institutions. The Market is located just blocks from downtown in Over-the-Rhine, a dense historic neighborhood rich in 19th century architecture. Open Tuesday through Sunday, Findlay Market is home year-around to about two dozen indoor merchants selling meat, fish, poultry, produce, flowers, cheese, deli, and ethnic foods. On Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays from April to November the Market also hosts a thriving farmers market, dozens of outdoor vendors, numerous street performers, and lots of special events.

Findlay Market is a gathering place for people from all over the city. It routinely attracts perhaps the most socially, economically, racially, and ethnically diverse crowds found anywhere in Cincinnati. They come for the sights and sounds and smells of an old-fashioned public market, for the great variety of fabulous fresh foods, for bargains, for people watching, and for a quintessentially urban shopping experience.

Hours
9am to 6pm - Tuesday through Friday

8am to 6pm on Saturday

10am to 4pm on Sunday

Closed Monday

Findlay Market is open year-round

Location
Findlay Market is located just blocks from downtown Cincinnati, in Over-The-Rhine on Elder Street between Elm and Race.
1801 Race Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202

Farmers Market
The Farmers Market is held every Thursday, Saturday and Sunday, from April through November.
Harvest Calendar

Discover what's fresh this month at Findlay Market! Our Harvest Calendar shows you what's in season, all season! The periods presented are approximate. Harvest periods may being a week to ten days earlier during a warmer than usual year. A cool spring will delay crop maturity. Also visit Season's Eatings for seasonal recipes, and cook up something fresh!

October
Fruit: Apples, Grapes, Strawberries (Everbearing), Watermelon
Vegetables: Beets, Broccoli, Cabbage, Carrots, Cauliflower, Cilantro, Collards, Endive, Escarole, Kale, Leeks, Lettuce, Mustard Greens, Dry Onions, Green Onions, Parsley, Parsnips, Bell Peppers, Hot Peppers, Sweet Peppers, Potatoes, Pumpkins, Radishes, Spinach, Winter Squash, Sweet Corn, Tomatoes, Turnip Greens, Fall Turnips

November
Vegetables: Summer Squash, Zucchini, Turnips
Storage Crops: Apples, Potatoes, Winter Squash, etc.

December
Storage Crops: Apples, Potatoes, Winter Squash, etc.
Value-Added Products: Jams, Baked Goods, etc.
Other: Cheese, Meat, Eggs

January
Storage Crops: Apples, Potatoes, Winter Squash, etc.
Value-Added Products: Jams, Baked Goods, etc.
Other: Cheese, Meat, Eggs

February
Storage Crops: Apples, Potatoes, Winter Squash, etc.
Value-Added Products: Jams, Baked Goods, etc.
Other: Cheese, Meat, Eggs

Contact
T: (513) 665-4839
E: info@findlaymarket.org
http://www.findlaymarket.org/

The Future of Food: 2050 - Food Day

The Future of Food: 2050

Hosted by Hon. Chellie Pingree

Welcome by Michael F. Jacobson, Center for Science in the Public Interest

5:00 p.m. Reception (location TBA)

6:00 p.m. – 8:30 p.m. U.S. Capitol Visitor Center

 

What will we be eating in the year 2050?  How will that food be produced?

  Where is the food movement going?

 Food Day’s national marquee event conference will bring together forward-thinking experts on agriculture policy, nutrition, and sustainability to discuss the future of Americans’ diet and food system.

  Save the date if you can join us, stay tuned for details, and get your crystal ball ready!

Coming Soon! Food Day October 24

“Food Day is a nationwide celebration
and a movement for healthy,
affordable, and sustainable food.”


Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Food Day, created by CSPI, is powered by a diverse coalition of food movement leaders, organizations, and people from all walks of life. Food Day takes place annually on October 24 to address issues as varied as health and nutrition, hunger, agricultural policy, animal welfare, and farm worker justice. The ultimate goal of Food Day is to strengthen and unify the food movement in order to improve our nation’s food policies. Join this push for a stronger, more united food movement by signing up to organize or attend Food Day events in your community.

The foods we eat should bolster our health, but the contemporary American diet is actually contributing to several hundred thousand premature deaths from heart attack, stroke, diabetes, and cancer each year. What’s more, the way our food is produced is all too often harmful to farm and food workers, the environment, and farm animals. The American food system has created a diet of cheap, salty, overly processed packaged foods, high-calorie sugary drinks, and fast-food made of white bread, fatty grain-fed factory-farmed meat, and French fries.

Food Day aims to transform the American diet. It’s time for America to Eat Real! All Americans—regardless of their age or race or income or geographic location—should be able to select healthy diets and avoid obesity, heart disease, and other diet related conditions.

Our priorities:

Promote safer, healthier diets
Support sustainable and organic farms
Reduce hunger
Reform factory farms to protect the environment
Support fair working conditions for food and farm workers

http://www.foodday.org/

Food Day is October 24, 2011

Food Day will be October 24—in 2011 and in years to come. Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes—to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. We will work with people around the country to create thousands of events in homes, schools, churches, farmers markets, city halls, and state capitals.

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) are the Honorary Co-Chairs for Food Day 2011, and the day is sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the nonprofit watchdog group that has led successful fights for food labeling, better nutrition, and safer food since 1971. Like CSPI, Food Day will be people-powered and does not accept funding from government or corporations—though restaurants, supermarkets, and others are certainly encouraged to observe Food Day in their own ways.

Food Day is backed by an impressive advisory board that includes anti-hunger advocates, physicians, authors, politicians, and leaders of groups focused on everything from farmers markets to animal welfare to public health. But the most important ingredient in Food Day is you—and we invite you to organize an event and help make Food Day a success.

*Food Day's goal is nothing less than to transform the American diet*


http://foodday.org/

FOOD DAY October 24, 2011

FOOD DAY
October 24, 2011

The most important ingredient in Food Day is YOU!
Get Started

Food Day will be October 24—in 2011 and in years to come. Food Day seeks to bring together Americans from all walks of life—parents, teachers, and students; health professionals, community organizers, and local officials; chefs, school lunch providers, and eaters of all stripes—to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way. We will work with people around the country to create thousands of events in homes, schools, churches, farmers markets, city halls, and state capitals.

Senator Tom Harkin (D-IA) and Representative Rosa DeLauro (D-CT) are the Honorary Co-Chairs for Food Day 2011, and the day is sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, the nonprofit watchdog group that has led successful fights for food labeling, better nutrition, and safer food since 1971. Like CSPI, Food Day will be people-powered and does not accept funding from government or corporations—though restaurants, supermarkets, and others are certainly encouraged to observe Food Day in their own ways.

Food Day is backed by an impressive advisory board that includes anti-hunger advocates, physicians, authors, politicians, and leaders of groups focused on everything from farmers markets to animal welfare to public health. But the most important ingredient in Food Day is you—and we invite you to organize an event and help make Food Day a success.

Support for FoodDay.org is provided by the Elfenworks Foundation.


http://foodday.org/