MUSTARD SEED PROJECTS....

MUSTARD SEED PROJECTS....
PURPOSE:
*Improving affordable food quality for people in all socioeconomic groups.
*Encouraging sustainable living.
*Promoting healthy lifestyles.
*Supporting the development of a local food production and distribution system.
CORE VALUES:
*Live local, think global.*Change can be in tiny increments.
*Inter-faith, ecumenical, and secular partnering is important.
STRATEGY:
1 - Establish a Chewelah Farmer's Market located "creek side" at St. Paul Lutheran Church as a way of getting folks together, learning, and trying out different things related to our purpose.
2 - Continue to organize and facilitate a series of meetings with growers, food producers and distributors, WSU County Extension, Jenkins High Ag Department and interested individuals to explore potential food-related projects.
3 - Host a series of classes on sustainable living, healthy living, suburban micro-farming, farming, preserving, and cooking at, and concurrent with, the Chewelah Farmer's Market.
ON GOING AND POTENTIAL PROJECTS:
*Support global food programs such as Heifer International and Bread for the World.
*Canning Closet.
*"Local" grain procurement, grinding, and distribution.
*Annual Earth Day Fair (spring) and Pet Lovers' Day (fall - it's a St. Francis thing).
*Semi-annual 2nd Harvest/Thrivent food giveaway with clothing bank and resource fair.
*Grow St. Paul's FINGERPRINTS preschool into a full-blown "farm school."