The Manchester Food Co-op Celebrates the First Annual Food Day on Monday October 24, 2011. It's Time to Eat Real, America! Food Day, modeled after Earth Day, is a nationwide celebration of real food and an effort to improve health, the environment, and America's food system. It's a grassroots mobilization led by the Center for Science in the Public Interest to push for healthy, affordable food produced in a sustainable, humane way.
The Manchester Food Co-op is sponsoring several Food Day events in our city! We hope you will join us to support this fantastic new initiative

Republic Cafe
9am-9pm
1069 Elm Street, Manchester (across from Hampshire Plaza)

Republic Cafe, the first restaurant in NH to be Certified Local by the New Hampshire Farm to Restaurant Connection, will feature a special three-course menu in addition to their regular menu. The prix fixe menu will use only locally grown or produced products, reaching as far as Maine and Vermont, to illustrate what it really means to eat locally without pulling from flown in produce. Republic's regular menu will be available for breakfast, lunch and dinner, and features local eggs, meats, cheeses, fish and produce. Members of the Manchester Food Co-op will be on hand all day to answer questions about the co-op. Donations of non-perishables will be collected for the New Hampshire Food Bank.
For reservations of 6 or more, call 603-666-3723.

Screening of the Film, "Ingredients"

This inspirational documentary describes the importance of growing and consuming local, healthy, seasonal and sustainable foods.
A variety of refreshments will be served from local purveyors including Stonyfield Farm, KO's Raw Adventures, The Soup Guy, Abigail's Bakery, Laurel Hill Jams and Jellies, Cabot's Creamery, Iggy's Bread and Mack's Apples.

Location: Unitarian Universalist Church, 669 Union Street, Manchester

6:30pm Doors Open

7:00pm Film Screening

8:15-9:00pm Panelist Discussion

Suggested donation: $15. Proceeds to benefit the New Hampshire Food Bank and the Manchester Food Co-op. Donations of non-perishables will be collected for the Food Bank.

View trailer of Ingredients film.
Our panelists:
- Roger Noonan, local organic farmer of Middle Branch Farms, New Boston
- Jaclyn Chasse, N.D., Northeast Center for Holistic Medicine, Bedford
- K.C. Wright, Nutritionist, Founding Publisher of New Hampshire's Edible Magazine
- Joshua Bourassa, Customer Service Manager, Concord Cooperative Market

Nutrition Education at Manchester Elementary Schools

All students at Green Acres elementary school in Manchester will track their consumption of vegetables and fruits the week prior to Food Day to promote healthy eating within families. Local nutritionist and farmer, Honey Weiss and Beth LeClair will visit the third graders on October 24th to celebrate their efforts!

THANK YOU to New England Duplicator for offering partnership in printing our Food Day posters.