The real food percentages are calculated by students (the RAD and Aramark paid interns) based on strict criteria determined a national team of student researchers and experts. The RFC leverages student power to pressure the three largest food service providers (1. Compass Group, 2. Sodexo, 3. Aramark) to improve their purchasing practices and transparency, thereby having a cascading effect on all aspects of the food chain, from pesticide use to farmworkers rights. It’s not going to solve the giant problems facing our society, but it adds to the growing demand for change and tangibly re-directs corporate money from factory farms to local farms. It is a commitment that Evergreen is making, not Aramark, and will hold regardless of the future of our campus dining. The Real Food Challenge at Evergreen was started years ago by Sarah Rocker (former Flaming Eggplant advisor) and we are proud to be paving the way for our fellow campaigners at Western Washington University and UW to get their administration to sign!

http://www.evergreen.edu/activities/earthday

https://www.facebook.com/events/1567853110140086/

12-5pm CAB and Red Square
Student-led workshops and activities, free samples, awesome workshops (SEE BELOW)

FREE SAMPLES from Aramark’s ‘real food’ vendors: Auburn Dairy, Truitt Family Foods beans, Charlies Produce, The Evergreen Organic Farm, Batdorf & Bronson Coffee Roasters, Columbia Gorge Juices, and hopefully Bagel Brothers

5-7pm (Evergreen Longhouse) Evergreen Real Food Challenge Presidential Signing and Speech by The Yes Men
After years of student campaigning and negotiating, The Evergreen State College will be the first public school in Washington to sign the national, student-led Real Food Campus Commitment. Already at 25% real food (defined local/community-based, fair trade, ecologically sound, and/or humane), Evergreen has set a reasonable goal of 28% real food by 2020. Les Purce will sign the Real Food Campus Commitment and sing a couple songs about food inequality with Dr. Barbara Dunn. The Yes Men (Andy Bichlbaum and Mike Bonanno) are world famous culture-jamming experts famous for impersonating big business executives and using lies to expose the truth.

7-10pm (Evergreen Longhouse)
Real Food Dance Party with the Electronic Music Collective and the Olympia Dance Co-op
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2-4pm in the Longhouse Food Justice workshop with The Yes Men

3:30pm in Lecture Hall 1: Real Food Challenge 101 workshop with Emma Brewster (RFC National Program Coordinator and Northwest Organizer) What’s the Real Food Challenge? What is real food? How does RFC combat the systemic problems of today’s dysfunctional food/societal systems? Why work within the system?

Tours: TESC Aquaponics, RAD Sustainability projects, Evergreen Shellfish Club, The Organic Farm at Evergreen, Evergreen Community Gardens, Demeter’s Garden

1:30-3pm Dig Deep Trail Maintenance with the Evergreen Conservation Corp and RAD people (entails: a short training, free ‘Dig Deep’ t-shirts, and hands-on experience replacing and cleaning water bars and turnpikes on trails near F Lot)

on Red Square:
~ dance music with the Electronic Music Collective
~ ‘lambs’ with Evergreen Students for Sustainable Animal Agriculture (Sheep Club)
~ Recess Shenanigans with the CRC
~ Outdoor Yoga workshop with The Evergreen Yoga Service Collective
~ Giant Rock Mandala with the Evergreen Rock and Gem Club
~ Mushroom Inoculation Workshop and mushroom logs for sale with the Evergreen Mycophiles and Olympia Mycelial Network
~ Thurston County Bicycle Commuter Contest (the local Bike Month celebrations) for Intercity Transit

in the CAB:
~ 1-5pm Open Mic and music performances in The SAG- Evergreen Student Art Gallery
~ project displays by recipients of the Clean Energy Committee awards
~ TESC Food Bank table with the Evergreen Campus Food Coalition
~ WASHpirg
~ Wake Up workshop with Jordan of Generation Waking Up
~ ‘Noosphere’ workshop with Mary K Johnson of Corona Communications

For questions about the Real Food Challenge, feel free to contact:
Emily Dunn-Wilder (RFC campaign leader) emily.kara.wilder@gmail.com
Jesse Honiker (RFC campaign leader) jlhoniker@gmail.com
Rachel Levy (RAD Sustainability Intern) rlevy08@gmail.com
Emily Martin (Aramark Sustainability Intern) emily.christine.martin@gmail.com
Zach Fleig (former Sustainability and Social Justice Dining Coordinator) flezac19@evergreen.edu