Northeast Real Food Leadership Training

The Real Food Challenge works to unite students for just and sustainable food in our dining halls across the country. It is a network, campaign, and movement that defines real food as food that is ethically produced, with fair treatment of workers, equitable relationships with farmers (locally and abroad), and humanely treated animals. It's food that is environmentally sustainable, grown without chemical pesticides, large-scale mono-cropping, or huge carbon footprints. Real Food is food that is healthy, tastes good, builds community, and has the potential to inspire broad-scale social change.

The real food leadership trainings are great opportunities to meet other students doing awesome work, to gain concrete organizing skills to propel your real food campaign, and to connect with the Real Food Challenge network. 

The trainings will be geared towards students who are working (or intend to work) on shifting school purchasing practices to fair, ecologically-sound, humane, and community-based foods.  You'll participate in interactive workshops covering skills and issues at the core of the Real Food Challenge, like campaign planning, engaging with dining services, and tackling injustices in the food system.  Students in both high school and college who are working on other projects are also encouraged to apply.  

To sign up for the Vermont training, go to: http://realfoodchallenge.org/NEtrainings10