Have a Dinner Party, Help Save a Small Family Farm

Have you visited the Sustainable Table website lately? It’s packed with information about why sustainable agriculture is so important to personal health, environmental health, community health, and more. Worried about disease (obesity, cancer, diabetes), climate change, the air you breathe, or the water you drink?  Care about fair labor standards, immigrants’ rights, family farmers, or the humane treatment of animals? Look to our current food system. Once you learn how interconnected these issues are with our failed industrial agriculture system, you really can’t turn back.

If you are reading this blog post, I’m going to guess that what I’m saying isn’t news to you If it is, I’m happy you are here! With all of this information in hand, what can we do to take this discussion to the next level? Spread the word about the healthy alternative – and help grow support for sustainable agriculture.

Spreading the word is something each one of us can do. The more people we educate, and the sooner we do it, the faster we will see improvements in our food system. You can help spread the word by talking to the people you know, writing letters to the editor and commenting on blog posts.  You can also do it by organizing events, such as lectures, film festivals, conferences, classes, teach-ins and other sustainably focused events… or how about a sustainable dinner party? That sounds like fun and we are here to help!

Sustainable table has a new, free and easy to download and use “Sustainable Dinner Party Kit” with lots of materials and ideas to help you share your love of sustainable food with friends, family and members of your extended community. The Sustainable Dinner Party Kit (found in the presentation kit section on the Sustainable Table website) features handouts to help you plan the party:

• “Getting Started” – explains how you can give your entire party a sustainable focus, not just the food.

• “The Food” – focuses on all the ingredients – vegetables, meat and drinks – and why sustainably raised food matters.

• “Themes” – offers ideas to make your party more creative and fun with suggestions for movie night, iron chef challenges, comfort foods – all with a sustainable twist.

Please check out the new kit when you have time and let us know if it’s helpful!

And remember, if you do want to spread the word through other types of events, we have dozens of free, downloadable materials to help you. Check out our Sustainable Food and Factory Farming kits with speeches, handouts, and display materials.