Food Day Aims to Bring Healthy, Affordable Food to All Americans
Yahoo Food is partnering with Barnraiser, a crowd-funding site that helps raise money for farmers and food entrepreneurs. Each week, we’ll feature a project which highlights the mission of Barnraiser: to put a billion dollars into the hands of food innovators as they reshape a healthy food world. This week, Barnraiser is featuring the project of FoodDay.org.
What Earth Day did for the environment, Food Day will do for real food. Food Day inspires Americans to change diets and improve food policies. Every Oct. 24, thousands of events all across the country bring together millions of people who envision a world where food is healthy, affordable, and produced with care for the environment, animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve it.
You in? Jack Johnson, Michael Pollan, Andrew Zimmern of Bizarre Foods, Gail Simmons of Top Chef and Kevin Bacon are just some of the celebrities working hard to get the message of good food in front of millions. You too, can change the way America eats. Five dollars spreads this message to 1,000 people. Imagine if millions backed this project.
Check out what Food Day has already accomplished across the U.S.:
Texas: Thanks to the enthusiasm generated by Food Day in Houston, the city now has an Obesity Task Force and a Healthy Food Resolution.
Boston: One week after Food Day’s “Justice in the Food Chain” conference at Northeastern University in Boston, dining workers ratified their first contract with the food service provider—bringing them a living wage, affordable health care, and increased sourcing of healthy, sustainable, and local foods.
New Orleans: On Food Day, the Lower Ninth Ward Food Access Coalition in New Orleans created the ward’s first-ever pop-up market to bring attention to food insecurity in the ward.
Schools: Food Day’s unifying action “Let’s Get Cooking with Kids” introduced 100,000 kids to healthy cooking resources and recipes.
Michigan: The Michigan Apple Crunch reached over 200,000 students who crunched into a Michigan apple in celebration of healthy, local food.
Just a few of Food Day’s exclusive rewards include signed albums by Jack Johnson and insider access to our favorite restaurants from the country’s top chefs, including Alice Waters and José Andrés.
Video and photos provided by Food Day.
Barnraiser is the No. 1 crowd-funding community for good food and healthy living. At Barnraiser, you will meet the people changing how we eat and live, share their inspirational stories and fund good food, farming, edible education, social innovations and more projects that create a healthier world.
