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Presentation Flow

Welcome/Introduction (2 minutes) Our Why (1 minute) Goals/Objectives (1 minute) Katie/Lida Story (10 minutes) RPL Story (10 minutes) Our Turn the Curve Example (5 minutes) Questions for us? What Brought you here today? (several problatunities offered by group) group does

• wn Turn the Curve (40 minutes)

7 share out

• -Video and conclusion

Checklist

Food Cards (RPL) Seed Library (RPL) Chart Paper (Lida) Sentence Strips (Katie) Lida Computer (and attachments) Heather Computer (and attachments) Heather: Photo Copies for Turn the Curve

Healthy Body, Healthy Mind

Food Access and Opportunity through Collective Impact Agenda

• Introductions

○ Share Name, Organization, Favorite Herb or Spice

• Our Story: An Unlikely Partnership
• Action Planning/Thinking Time
• Concluding Music Video

Presenters: Who we are. Who are you?

Eric Tarr: Rochester Public Library Heather Acerro: Rochester Public Library Katie Sloan: Green Thumb Initiative, Rochester ALC Lida Casper: Community Schools Facilitator, Riverside Elementary Jody Peterson: Family Engagement & Support Teacher, Riverside Elementary Rich Jopp: Green Thumb Initiative Rochester ALC

Over 1 TON of Food!!!

Meeting Food Justice Summit Objectives

Objective 1: Moving Toward Justice Bringing healthy food to areas of food apartheid Objective 2: Expanding Participation of New Systems and Sectors Place-based, building community through food (access, equity, distribution) Objective 3: Collective Action and Impact Community connectedness, building trust Objective 4: Food System Education Food literacy, nontraditional education, building trust, whole child needs

Riverside Central Elementary School: A Community School

Riverside Central Elementary School: A Community School

Riverside Central Elementary School

The garden is a vehicle for engaging students, families and community, while integrating academics, activism and lifelong skills

Strategies for Engaging People

❏ Making the garden “our” garden

❏ Students designed garden plot ❏ Students helped plan the “Garden Parties” ❏ Summer School Care

❏ Community investment (funds, time, expertise)

❏ We are now a DNR Designated School Forest ❏ SHIP Funds ❏ Building partnerships with similar missions and objectives (e.g. the Bookmobile is already doing this)

❏ Adopt a garden schedule shared at family events for summer months

Garden Party Video

https://youtu.be/-P0z36TiDbY

Who Attends Rochester Alternative Learning Center?

Rochester Alternative Learning Center

Rochester Alternative Learning Center

2017 Food Access Conference Meeting

• Riverside and ALC had similar challenges
• RPL Matrix for the Book Mobile
• Connected with RPL and began planning for the summer of 2018

Rochester Public Library: Summer Playlist on the Road 2018

Grant through local agency Bookmobile stop activities ❏ Art ❏ Free produce ❏ Recipes or food prep instruction ❏ Food samples Outcomes

Bookmobile Events

Matrix ❏ Population density ❏ Diversity ❏ Areas of low income ❏ Transportation barriers ❏ Distance to library 5 stops selected 28 events total

Connections

Most successful stops ❏ Creekside ❏ American Red Cross Least successful stop ❏ Homestead Park

Grant Outcomes & Outputs

❏ Added 7 new partners to the program over the summer ❏ 370 people attended 28 events ❏ 169 people received 2,000 pounds of fresh produce ❏ 53% of participants learned something new about the library ❏ 62% of participants learned a new fact, gained a new skill, or tried a new activity ❏ 98% of participants had a positive experience with the library

Summer Playlist on the Road 2019

Continued successful stops Added new stops Bookmobile stop activities ❏ Enrichment activities ❏ Free produce ❏ Produce info cards ❏ Connections

Rochester Public Library: Seed Library

Rochester Public Library: Welcoming Foods

❏ Welcoming Committee ❏ Why are welcoming foods important? ❏ What are welcoming foods?

Collective Action and Impact

Everyone does their own part.

Riverside, ALC, RPL: Turn the Curve Example

Food Waste

Students are not at school during all of harvest season No one is there to harvest all the veggies Food bank has trouble distributing produce in time Rochester Public Library Local grocery store Book Mobile takes produce to areas of food apartheid Recipes using the produce were created Activities around food were shared at Book Mobile Events

Any questions for us?

The whos? The whats? The whens? The wheres? The whys? The hows?

O.K. Now you. Action Plan Generating Ideas

Working through specific problems using results based accountability exercise.

Grow Food Video: YO, GET READY FOR IT!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYxY_qR_s8g

Contact Information

Eric Tarr, Rochester Public Library: etarr@rplmn.org Heather Acerro, Rochester Public Library: hacerro@rplmn.org Katie Sloan, Green Thumb Initiative, Rochester ALC: kasloan@rochester.k12.mn.us Lida Casper, Community Schools Facilitator, Riverside Elementary: licasper@rochester.k12.mn.us Jody Peterson, Family Engagement & Support Teacher, Riverside Elementary: jopeterson@rochester.k12.mn.us Rich Jopp, Green Thumb Initiative Rochester ALC: rijopp@rochester.k12.mn.us