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Education
Our members create and deliver food and nutrition based educational programs to schools, chefs, farmers and communities. We organize field trips for students to see farms and farmers markets.
Advocacy
Our members organize farmer-chef conferences and partner with other locally based food organizations to promote local, sustainable food sources within each community.
Philanthropy
Our members raise thousands of dollars to support local food, farming and gardening projects from farmers markets and school and rehabilitative gardens to educational programs and scholarships.
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Goals
The Green Tables Initiative was launched in 2005 to further the linkages between urban and rural farms and gardens to school, restaurant and kitchen tables in LDEI chapter communities throughout our international organization.
- Promote community health and well-being
- Foster LDEI’s leadership in the local food movement
- Build upon existing community food, gardening and agriculture efforts
- Inspire focus on the value of local farmers and enhance the use of locally grown food
- Share our skills and knowledge to further the local food movement and enhance public health
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