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Real Food Road Trips

Since the first-ever Real Food Road Trip blasted through the Midwest in January 2011 with roaring success, we're excited to hit the road for real food all over the country, to boost an existing real food campaign on your campus, or help you start one anew!
 

A Road Trip is currently bein planned for the Southwest!

Email jon@realfoodchallenge.org to get on the itinerary.

 
Check out this video from last year's Real Food Road Trip:

 
Contact a Regional Field Organizer to plan a visit to your campus NOW!


HERE’S WHAT WE CAN DO FOR YOU:

Workshops, presentations, meetings --- you've got it! Here's some details about what we can do on your campus

  • Workshops for your student organization & beyond, including:
    • Corporate Food Service: Challenges & Opportunities - learn the nitty-gritty of corporate food service and how, as students, you have the greatest opportunitiy to make big change!
    • Strategic Campaign Planning: Straightforward, hands-on, nuts & bolts planning for getting your campus dining service to GET REAL! All of the Midwest Road Trip participating students agreed---this is an essential change-making skill session!
    • The RFC Calculator: Everything you need to know to succeed with Real Food Challe nge's greatest tool for your campus
    • [Insert What You Want Here] Are we missing a workshop that you want really badly? Contact us now! We can work something out with you.
  • What else can we do?
    • Present in classes or at student group meetings
    • Meet with dining service staff and school administrators with you

We can come for one evening presentation, or a few days of various activities. Emphasis on we’re flexible. We want to work with you.

We request a $500 honorarium for each Road Trip visit, to cover the logistics and programming. We will work with you to support your fundraising efforts!

Check out highlights from past road trips!
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Highlights from Past Road Trips

 

January 2011: Midwest Road Trip

What: In January 2011, Katie Blanchard & Katelyn Hale traveled through the Midwest, visiting colleges in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio, and Missouri to lead workshops, trainings, and presentations for student organizations. Blog.

Where: 

  • Knox College (Galesburg, IL)
  • Kalamazoo College (Kalamazoo, MI)
  • University of Toledo (Toledo, OH)
  • Indiana University (Bloomington, IN)
  • University of Missouri (Columbia, MO)
  • Beloit College (Beloit, WI)
  • Carleton College (Northfield, MN)
  • St. Olaf College (Northfield, MN)

 

Highlights:

Following a visit from Katie and Katelyn, Knox College students created the Knox Food Coalition and organized a Sustainable Food Forum with the help of two environmental studies professors, their dining service director, and a local CSA grower.

At Beloit College, Katie and Katelyn got to see the Beloit Student Dining Cooperative, the student-run co-op that’s now up and running and providing real food and great community to the college’s students.


Workshop participants at Beloit College.

In Northfield, MN, Katie and Katelyn visited Carleton College and St. Olaf’s College, and saw that a comparison between the two school’s Real Food Calculator reports could shed a lot of light on the local food system, because both have the same provider (Bon Appetit) and they are located in the same town. Carleton is already working with the Calculator and St. Olaf’s is getting on board soon!

For many, many more stories, pictures, and videos from the road trip,
VISIT THE BLOG.

 

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