Weathersfield School - Big Apple Crunch

Wednesday, October 23, 2013 at 8:59AM

 

Weathersfield School will be participating in the Big Apple Crunch to kick off the nationwide Food Day celebration.  The Big Apple Crunch is an attempt to set the world record for the "Most Participants in an Apple-Crunching Event" by having 1,000,000 New Yorkers crunch apples at Noon. Weathersfield School will be joining the growing number of states who have joined New York in this yearly tradition. We will be crunching our apples during lunch.

Below you will find some information regarding Food Day. Please let Emily or I know if you have any questions.

Thanks!
Beth Sprague

Food Day is a nationwide celebration of healthy, affordable, and sustainably produced food and a grassroots campaign for better food policies. It builds all year long and culminates onOctober 24.

Food Day aims to help people Eat Real. That means cutting back on sugar drinks, overly salted packaged foods, and fatty, factory-farmed meats in favor of vegetables, fruits, whole grains, and sustainably raised protein. Food Day envisions shorter lines at fast-food drive-throughs—and bigger crowds at farmers markets.

This annual event involves some of the country’s most prominent food activists, united by a vision of food that is healthy, affordable, and produced with care for the environment, farm animals, and the people who grow, harvest, and serve it.

With Food Day, we can celebrate our food system when it works and fix it when it’s broken. Across the country, 3,200 events took place in 2012 and 2,300 in 2011, from community festivals in Denver, Savannah, and New York City, to a national conference in Washington, DC, to thousands of school activities in Portland, Minneapolis, and elsewhere.