Comments on: Get a Grant from Hellmann’s and be Part of the Real Food Movement http://blog.cookingnook.com/fitness/hellmanns-real-food-movement/ Let's Talk Food, Cooking, Recipes and the Kitchen Wed, 30 Nov 2011 03:13:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Nancy Elliott http://blog.cookingnook.com/fitness/hellmanns-real-food-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-4267 Nancy Elliott Mon, 27 Sep 2010 21:16:49 +0000 http://blog.cookingnook.com/?p=454#comment-4267 As director of a non-profit youth organization I am interested in starting a program for university and university bound students that connects them to real food while away at school. Having taught life skills through the years I feel many young people would benefit, and with the obesity rate ever increasing in this country I believe I have something to offer. At The Brandee Elliott Educational Projects we are dedicated to assisting youth to actualize their individual potential while fostering a spirit of service to society. We are know in the community for the services we provide. Our focus is on the environment and improving the quality of life for all. Unfortunately, I have only recently heard about the grants. I am wondering if you will be continuing the program this year. If so I trust you will find merit in our efforts and would very much appreciate an opportunity to discuss the work that could be done. Regards, Nancy As director of a non-profit youth organization I am interested in starting a program for university and university bound students that connects them to real food while away at school. Having taught life skills through the years I feel many young people would benefit, and with the obesity rate ever increasing in this country I believe I have something to offer.

At The Brandee Elliott Educational Projects we are dedicated to assisting youth to actualize their individual potential while fostering a spirit of service to society. We are know in the community for the services we provide. Our focus is on the environment and improving the quality of life for all.

Unfortunately, I have only recently heard about the grants. I am wondering if you will be continuing the program this year. If so I trust you will find merit in our efforts and would very much appreciate an opportunity to discuss the work that could be done.

Regards,
Nancy

]]> By: Sabine Alpers http://blog.cookingnook.com/fitness/hellmanns-real-food-movement/comment-page-1/#comment-4256 Sabine Alpers Tue, 14 Sep 2010 06:35:03 +0000 http://blog.cookingnook.com/?p=454#comment-4256 Hello, we are a small team organizing two farmer's market in the neighbourhood Plateau Mont Royal in Montreal. This year it is our second year of operation and we opend a second market. Our goal is to provide the Plateau residents access to local, farm fresh food and to educate the public about the importance of the local food movement in conjunction with the environmental issues/implications. This year we started on the 17th of June and our markets go until mid october. We have on avaerage 20- 25 producers who come from the region outside of Montreal to sell their produce, which varies from vegetables, local cheese, hormone free meats, eggs, honey, artisan apple products, fruits, maple sirop, butter, cider and much more.... We only accept small family farm operations and everything has to be their own produce. Every week we invite a local chef asking him/ her to cook a mail with ingridiences from the market to inspire the public about seasonal cooking. We also produce a weekly documentary, where we feature one of our producers and go and visit their farm or artisan kitchen to give people a better idea, where the food is coming from, who is behind it and over all, try to create a connection between consumer and farmer. We are a project of the house of friendship, a non for profit community centre in Montreal, dedicated in community building. Unfortunately we missed the deadline for the grant application but we would be very interested to know, if you are planning in continuing your program next year. It's clear that such a project is expensive and the kiosk rentals do not cover the expenses, we are therefore dependent on other funding ressources to keep these farmer's markets alive. I invite you to visit our website: www.marchefermier.ca or watch our videos:http://marchefermier.ca/site/category/wdt-tv (they are in french but we hope to translate them soon....) Yours, Sabine Alpers (projet coordinator) Hello,
we are a small team organizing two farmer’s market in the neighbourhood Plateau Mont Royal in Montreal. This year it is our second year of operation and we opend a second market. Our goal is to provide the Plateau residents access to local, farm fresh food and to educate the public about the importance of the local food movement in conjunction with the environmental issues/implications. This year we started on the 17th of June and our markets go until mid october. We have on avaerage 20- 25 producers who come from the region outside of Montreal to sell their produce, which varies from vegetables, local cheese, hormone free meats, eggs, honey, artisan apple products, fruits, maple sirop, butter, cider and much more….
We only accept small family farm operations and everything has to be their own produce. Every week we invite a local chef asking him/ her to cook a mail with ingridiences from the market to inspire the public about seasonal cooking.
We also produce a weekly documentary, where we feature one of our producers and go and visit their farm or artisan kitchen to give people a better idea, where the food is coming from, who is behind it and over all, try to create a connection between consumer and farmer. We are a project of the house of friendship, a non for profit community centre in Montreal, dedicated in community building.
Unfortunately we missed the deadline for the grant application but we would be very interested to know, if you are planning in continuing your program next year.
It’s clear that such a project is expensive and the kiosk rentals do not cover the expenses, we are therefore dependent on other funding ressources to keep these farmer’s markets alive.
I invite you to visit our website: http://www.marchefermier.ca or watch our videos:http://marchefermier.ca/site/category/wdt-tv
(they are in french but we hope to translate them soon….)
Yours,
Sabine Alpers
(projet coordinator)

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