Education and Outreach
The goal of Education & Outreach is to create of network of strong, vibrant and dynamic relationships with the educational, artistic, health and business communities in the Brattleboro and surrounding areas. In so doing, we create a framework of connection which benefits all: business to co-op, co-op to farm, farm to school, school to child, child to family, family to community. These exchanges are established, fostered and expanded:
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These exchanges are established, fostered and expanded:
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• When educators visit classrooms and teach kids about the benefits of eating foods that resemble the colors of the rainbow.
• When kids attend a cooking class at our community kitchen and learn how to make a strawberry hand pie.
• When shareholders or community members offer nutrition, vegan cooking or natural beauty care classes in our community room.
• When kids visit the Co-op and become “Co+op Explorer’s” member, which entitles them to recieve a free piece of fruit when they visit the Co-op.
• When our educators attend the River Valley Kids Fair, New Chapter Wellness Fair or the Putney Central School Wellness Night and encourage kids and adults to taste a spring radish, a dried mango from Burkina Faso or hummus made in our own Co-op kitchen, to name just a few.
• When we donate diapers for the “Welcome Home Baby Basket” program of the Early Education Services Center to introduce parents to resources available for natal and post-natal care.
