Hello friends and family,
Greetings from Henry, Illinois. Leah and I are both well on our way
across the country by bicycle, meeting many wonderful people and
experiencing the vastness of this land and the many communities that
define it. We have been shown so much warmth and hospitality by
strangers that identify with our ambition or support our cause to help
fund sustainable nutrition in schools through FoodCycle. It had been
a bit paradoxical, both surprising and utterly predictable because,
really, people are good and gravitate toward inspiration-this, as I am
beginning to see, transcends many of the barriers we construct to
separate ourselves from one another.
Many of you have already generously supported FoodCycle and our goal
to raise $10,000 in 2012 to fund a year’s worth of sustainable foods
for Harriet Beecher Stowe Elementary in Brunswick, Maine. Some of you
may not have a clue what FoodCycle is, don’t feel bad. Here’s the
gist:
By acting as financiers for farm to school collaborations we can pay local
farmers to grow product specifically for schools in their communities.
These foods are then donated to the school district, cleaned, prepped
and implemented into the school lunch menu. Our pilot school this
year will serve over 600 public school students in grades 2-5.
Another, some might say “large”, component of the project is the
cross-country bicycle ride Leah and I are currently undertaking.
Along our route we are documenting school nutritional reform already
underway in communities across the US. From the footage we’ll be
creating a series of episodes that can be viewed on our website
www.foodcycleus.com and will be featured with Hand Picked Nation at
http://handpickednation.com/meet/foodcycle.
To date we have raised over $6,000! This is an amazing accomplishment
and again much of our success is thanks to you and people like you.
With over 60% of our goal met we are pushing to complete our fund
raising drive by the beginning of the 2012-13 school year.
How can you help? Contribute! Offer advice, encouragement,
inspiration, wisdom, tell us a joke, and if you can give monetarily.
Visit http://foodcycleus.com/contact-us/contribute/ to donate to
“foods for schools” or to help “support the riders” on their 4,500
mile journey. PLEASE distribute this email to any and every person
that you believe can support our goal to provide sustainable school
nutrition for our public school children
With gratitude,
Adam
Since the Dinosaurs Roamed 