- Author: DeAnna Molinar
While the idea of Food Day has been around since 1975, the campaign to raise awareness and inspire Americans to change their diets and food policies, was not revived until 2011. Since 2011, Food Day has been celebrated annually and continues to provide awareness and focus on topics that are important to sustaining and changing the way Americans eat.
This year Food Day will have a special focus on food access and justice for food and farm workers. While the focus of Food Day may change annually, its priorities do not. In fact, the University of California's visions and the Food Day priorities share many parallels:
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Food Day is a nationwide celebration and a movement for healthy, affordable and sustainable food. This year the focus of Food Day in Napa County is food education, and the U.C. Master Gardeners of Napa County will once again participate.
On Saturday, October 25, from 8:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m., we will be joining many other nonprofit organizations at the Napa Farmers' Market for a health and wellness fair. Exhibitors will showcase the importance of fresh, local and sustainable food production and consumption; offer local resources related to health and wellness; and provide information on sustainable farming.
Napa County residents are probably most familiar with Master Gardeners through our help desks, workshops, tomato...
- Author: Shelby MacNab
- Author: Alec Rosenberg
The first Food Day is coming Oct. 24.
It’s a nationwide campaign with a local flavor: University of California wellness leaders are planning Food Day activities at UC campuses, medical centers and other locations.
The goal is to get people to “eat real,” supporting healthy, delicious and affordable food prepared in a sustainable, humane way.
“We want to raise people’s awareness of where their food comes from. Think every time you put something in your mouth,” said Ginnie Thomas, a health advocate for housing and residential dining services at UC Santa Barbara. She is co-coordinating UC’s Food Day...