This week we’re going to identify and begin work on a take action project to earn the Harvest Award. Your project may take more than one week and that’s OK. When you finish your project you will report on what you’ve done in the comments and that will be the end of your Sow What Journey! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Take Action Harvest Award Project
One of the ideas of the Journey is to help you learn the steps that you need to take when you are working on a Gold Award Project. Discover, Connect, Take Action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In the first few weeks of our journey we were Discovering about the local food scene, exploring markets, trying recipes, visiting farms, watching documentaries about the problems. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Then we Connected with people who are making a difference. We read about people all over the world who have found ways to help and maybe you visited a local farmer\u2019s market or farm or food bank and talked to people there about the problems that they see in our local community.
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Now it\u2019s time to Take Action! <\/strong> If you have the book, read pages 86-93 in Sow What for ideas and inspiration. Here are some ideas below but you’re welcome to find your own inspiration! Local Farms<\/em>– bees, fruit flies, worker\u2019s rights, fair prices, water use, (**write a recipe book of dishes to cook using local foods in season. Send them in to a local paper for publication. Dig up some historical local recipes using produce found in your community.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n Local Land Trust <\/em>\u2013 why don\u2019t we have any in our area? What happened to the farms here?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Homeless and Hungry<\/em> \u2013 what can we do to help? Community garden? Fallen fruit gatherers? Make a recipe book of things to cook from pantry foods? Did you enjoy cooking recipes in week 2? Maybe this would be a good issue to explore!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Emergency Foods<\/em> \u2013 write a recipe book of foods to cook with pantry staples and foods to cook when the electricity goes out!<\/p>\n\n\n\n Younger Girl Scouts<\/em> \u2013 could we plan an event to teach them something we learned? Offer to cook local foods for a group and tell them about what we\u2019ve learned?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Ronald McDonald House<\/em> \u2013 could we put the ideas of cooking fresh healthy food into practice and come up with several menus of healing and healthy organic foods to serve to the group? Could we teach them what we\u2019ve learned about eating locally and what\u2019s good about it?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Make an Impact<\/em> Did you enjoy the documentaries that we watched in week 4? Maybe you\u2019d like to shoot your own documentary about one of these issues and upload it to YouTube or have a movie night in your community to show your film or show it at your Girl Scout Service Unit meeting.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you like to write? <\/em>Interview some of the farmers you met in Week 5 and write an article for the local paper or for your school paper on one of these issues. Encourage friends to make a change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
You need to pick an issue, decide on a goal and figure out what to do as your project.
Name our Issue
Name Our Goal
What will we do and where and when
Why this matters and how it will benefit the planet and people <\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you enjoyed exploring local markets and thinking about your food print<\/em>, maybe you could choose that as an issue.
Big or small, sustainable impact in local community..what could we do? Count bees? Grow food for a food pantry? Get the school cafeteria to serve more local foods or to label them? Help the homeless? Cut down on food waste at the school cafeteria or on local cruise ships? What are some of the local issues that we might be able to change?
At your High School (or on cruise ships or at girl scout camps) – Waste from meals, packaging, composting, serving local foods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n