info@mountainrootsfoodproject.org PO Box 323 Gunnison, CO 81230
Outreach for
Healthy Youth
Mountain Roots ensures that all youth have access and opportunities to participate in healthy food, gardening, and environmental experiences that promote healthy lifestyles, support academic achievement, build connections with nature, develop personal skills, and offer rewarding community engagement. We partner with service organizations to design specific programs that reach at-risk, low-income youth . Youth outreach projects build individual and community self-reliance, foster social justice, promote cultural integration, and create stewards of the future.
OUTREACH FOR 2012 includes:
PARTNERS MENTOR TRAINING NIGHT April 18, 2012
Starting Seeds with the “Partners,” a Big Bother / Big Sister program in Gunnison County.
NATIONAL HEALTHY KIDS DAY April 28, 2012
What’s On Your Plate? Free Family Screening, Food Demo, Discussion, and Activity at the Old Rock Library in Crested Butte and the Ann Zugelder Library in Gunnison
GARDEN TO GROCERY EXHIBIT at the TRAILHEAD CHILDREN’S DISCOVERY MUSEUM [on-going]
Healthy Snack Station with a live chef demo
Monthly recipes and nutrition information
Seed starting and garden planning
RESTORATIVE JUSTICE VOLUNTEERS [on-going]
Ben Johnson will be leading a group of youth to complete restorative justice community service hours as volunteers in our Gunnison Youth Garden
SOUTHWEST CONSERVATION CORPS Youth Crew
Service Learning Project August 24, 2012
Many of the crew members expressed an interest in working over the summer in the outdoors and learning about the variety of opportunities that SCC represents. Mountain Roots Gardens provided an educational, service-learning project to teach and experience sustainable agriculture and its relationship to humans and environment.
Mountain Roots Food Project is a 501(c)3 charitable organization
