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“How we eat determines, to a   
considerable extent, how the world is used.” Wendell Berry

Eating for Our Future

  Projects

Eat Healthy Monday

Meatless Monday

Healthy Monday

Food System Mapping

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Food for Life in Elementary Schools

Community Food Assesment

Eat Local

Community Supported Agriculture


Save the Bay, Eat Locally Grown!
A joint project of CLF and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation

Spurred in part by a 2005 CBF report entitled Vital Signs:Assessing the State of Chesapeake Agriculture that concluded that traditional agriculture in the Chesapeake Bay watershed was losing ground to sprawling development pressure and that certain farming practices were contributing to soil erosion and Bay pollution, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation staff decided to make the connection between food choices and the health of the Bay in their own backyard.
In June 2006 they launched, in concert with the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future, the “Save the Bay, Eat Locally Grown” campaign at CBF’s Philip Merrill Headquarters in Annapolis. This weekly lunch program for staff comes with more than good, healthy food. It also brings with it messages about the need to support regional and local agriculture, especially operations that use sustainable farming practices.

Each filling and nutritious meal is meatless (inspired by the Meatless Monday project at CLF) but contains a complete protein and features at least three locally- grown, inseason ingredients (at least three).

Here are some helpful links if you want more information:
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Maryland Growing Season Poster

    





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