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PROJECT ROOTED
PROJECT ROOTED. Started in early 2000 by Whitney Sanger, president of Project Rooted and Kevin Scharpf, owner and chef of BRAZEN, the nonprofit was established to educate young people about sustainable, healthy, and local food sources. With the onslaught on the PANDEMIC, their program took on increased significance. As schools closed, healthy foods once provided by their schools became more difficult to acquire despite the District's "Grab-and-Go" lunches.
Together with the co-founders joined with CONVIVIUM URBAN FARMSTEAD and many volunteers to distribute free healthy lunches to those 18 and younger. In cooperation with the Western Dubuque Community Schools meal sites were also opened in Peosta, Epworth and Farley to offer supplemental foods to those provided by the district.
One of the first major donors in Dubuque was PREMIER BANK.
Once the immediate crisis has past, hopes were that the focus of the group could return to their missions of sustainability and sustainability. A seed program by which students will be able to grow and eat their own produce will coincide with teaching the proper manner of disposing of food.
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Source:
Jacobson, Ben, "Food Program Springs into Action," Telegraph Herald, March 30, 2020, p. 3A