(Community Matters) Marion & I met over breakfast with Ronda Rutledge and Joy Casnovsky, Exec. Director & Program Director, respectively from the Sustainable Food Center. If you don’t know the group, they run the community gardens, the downtown & Triangle farmer’s markets and the Concina Alegre (happy kitchen) food & nutrition training programs.
SFC went through a few really tough years. The board hired Ronda nearly two years ago. We met when Jen Vickers asked me to meet her over coffee. The organization’s farmers markets are thriving – as are two exciting, new programs: the Farm to School as well as Farm Direct projects, the latter whereby consumers subscribe for deliveries from organic farmers.
Marion and I were talking with them about launching food & nutritional cooking classes for women with breast cancer. Like all cancer survivors, studies support the contributions of special diets for breast cancer patients while in treatment as well as while in recovery.
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