🌱 Join us for a journey to better health with Aurora Market & Roots for Life! From Basic Nutrition Education to Gut Health and Mindful Eating, our series has it all. Sponsored by Aurora Market, MetaBalance Nutrition, and Miles To Go Athletics. Don't miss out on expert advice from fitness coach Alison Heilig and health coach Daira Duric. See you there!
Nourishing our roots & cultivating wellness in our community!
Nutritionist, chef demos, wellness & fitness, healthy products, and more!
Create your own vision board to help you manifest your dreams and goals for a healthier lifestyle. Whether you want to improve your physical fitness, enhance your mental well-being, or adopt healthier habits, this workshop is for you!
Join us as we partner with the HBCU Alumni Alliance to provide 80 Thanksgiving dinners!
The HBCU Alumni Alliance is accepting online donations until November 16, 2023 at 11pm at bit.ly/HBCUHarvest
This will be a hands-on workshop where participants will plant garlic and learn the basics about growing this pungent and flavorful root vegetable through the winter! Come learn about the different garlic varieties and how to support their healthy growth! Participants can sign up to come back during harvest in the summer to take some fresh garlic home!
Save the date for our September 23rd Cooking Demonstration at the Ward 8 Farmers’ Market!
Save the date for our September 17th Winter Gardening 101 Class at East Capitol Urban Farm!
Save the date for our August 26th Cooking Demonstration at the Ward 8 Farmers’ Market!
With summer in full swing, join us as we learn how to craft and prepare simple, nourishing recipes with the garden’s bounty. This is a free event and open to all.
Come meet and learn to work with a handful of common, safe, and easy-to-grow medicinal herbs. You’ll come away with knowledge around how to identify, grow, and work with each plant based on their unique virtues and affinities and how to craft simple preparations like teas, oils, and tinctures. This is a free event and open to all.
Save the date for our July 22nd Cooking Demonstration at the Ward 8 Farmers’ Market!
If you've always wanted to garden, this is the workshop for you! You will leave this workshop with a good foundation for starting your gardening journey. We will also start some seeds that can be taken hom! This is a free event and open to all.
Save the date for our June 10th Cooking Demonstration at the Ward 8 Farmers’ Market!
Fun fact: Gardening is for everyone!
If you’ve always wanted to garden, this is the class for you! Join us to learn how to set up, design, and cultivate a vegetable garden on this multi-functional, three-acre farm located in southeast Washington, DC. You will leave with tips on how to get started and to keep your garden growing for years to come.
RSVP here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/gardening-101-tickets-635995077397
Roots for Life is a grassroots volunteer organization founded in 2017 to educate and empower communities to thrive by eradicating food deserts and food insecurity. This year, we are starting our Community Health Seminars with the goal to educate and empower communities about the positive influence of nutrition and healthy lifestyle.
Sign up here: https://form.jotform.com/230947358328162
We will host six Nutrition and Lifestyle seminars starting May 2023.
These discussions will focus on the following topics:
- May 20th: Introduction to Nutrition: Optimal nutrition for wellbeing, macronutrients & micronutrients.
- June 17th: Metabolic Syndrome: Eat to prevent diabetes.
- July 15th: Gut Health: How to eat for optimal gut health.
- August 12th: Sleep: How to address sleep problems.
- September 30th: Fitness: Eat for optimal fitness performance.
- October 21st: Healthspan: How to live well and improve the quality of your years.
You will gain the most if you join us for every lecture as we plan to include actionable tools and follow up questions. See you there!
Summer camps, medical services, mobile food markets, and opportunities to get involved in system change… Did you know you can learn about ALL of this and more at the upcoming Resource Fair at The Well?
Please RSVP here so we can get a general headcount for food and activities!
What? Discover local organizations and networks active East of the river that are available to support you! There will be food, music, activities, and local organizations introducing themselves and sharing information about the services they provide. Come through for 15 minutes or stay all four hours! We'd love to see you for any amount of time.
Who? All residents of Wards 7 and 8 are welcome! Also, we would like to invite organizations (nonprofits, small businesses, etc) that serve residents East of the river to table at this event to pass out information about the programs or services you provide. If your organization provides useful services in Wards 7 and 8 (such as food access, housing, or youth programming), CLICK HERE to apply to table at our event!
When? Saturday, May 13th from 11am-3pm
Where? The Well at Oxon Run (300 Valley Ave SE, Washington, DC 20032)
Here are a few organizations that will be attending:
Starting With Today | Congress Heights Arts and Culture Center |DC Hunger Solutions |The Green Scheme |Casey Trees | MedStar Family Choice DC | Unity Healthcare EOR+ Anacostia+Parkside | The STAND Foundation | LCHC | Mayors Office of Veterans Affairs | D.C. Long Term Care Ombudsman Office/Legal Counsel for the Elderly | City Blossoms | Arcadia Mobile Market
Join the HBCU Alumni Alliance and Roots for Life as we celebrate National Nutrition Month. This year’s theme is “Fuel for the Future”. Come out to learn about eating healthy, how to grow your own food, and more ways to fuel your body and mind in the future!
We have an exciting event coming up on January 21, 2023 at 2pm EST! Some of the incredible poets from Poetry X Hunger will be sharing their poems on hunger and some anti-hunger experts will be giving us their thoughts on how we can solve hunger issues using the arts.
Join us online for the fun. You can sign up for the FREE event at https://bit.ly/poetryxhungerevent
Feeling generous? Donate to both Poetry X Hunger and Roots for Life at https://bit.ly/givePXHRFL
Join us for an Earth Day celebration at Bruce-Monroe Elementary School!
Bruce-Monroe Elementary School
3560 Warder St. NW
Washington, DC 20010
Talk and Demo with Tanorria Askew in Partnership with Roots for Life
In Staples + 5, Tanorria Askew, a private chef and former MasterChef contestant, was inspired by the tradition of cooking she learned from her grandparents: make the most of what you have. She focuses on making something magical and delicious from simple, accessible pantry ingredients and during the event she will show us just how she does this– plus we will have samples to share!
This event will be presented in partnership with Roots for Life, a local grassroots volunteer organization committed to educating and empowering communities to thrive by eradicating food deserts and food insecurity.
Wed, Mar 23, 2022, 7:00 PM EDT
Bold Fork Books
3064 Mount Pleasant Street Northwest
Washington, DC 20009
Contact the organizer to request a refund.
Culinary Demonstrations and Container Gardening Rooftop Event at H Street Farm
Join our FREE educational collaborative rooftop event to increase food sustainability.
If you are interested in creating a container garden that can work in any size space and then cooking from your own bounty, this demo-filled event is for you!
In our collective effort to reduce food insecurity, we are accepting donations of new spices/herbs and new kitchen utensils for Housewarming Baskets for individuals and families going into affordable housing. With your help, families can be equipped with the tools necessary to make delicious meals at home!
1:00 – 2:00 pm – Container Gardening Demo by H Street Farm
2:15 – 4:00 pm – Cooking demos by Good Foods Market and Byron Daniels of Daniels Catering
3:30 – 4:00 pm – Self-guided Farm Tour
Hosted by Roots for Life, HBCU Alumni Alliance, Good Food Markets, and Cultivate the City.
For D.C. Cocktail Week, we are partnering with Sally’s Middle Name. For the week, Sally’s Middle name will pair The Golden Hind (made with One Eight Distilling District Made Barrel Aged Gin, local apple brandy, local amaretto, and black walnut bitters) with a pan fried pork belly, rye crouton, apple honey and fermented jalapeños. The pairing is $18 and available during dinner service Wednesday - Sunday.
We are partnering with Roots for Life for cocktail week; for each pairing sold we will donate $1 to Roots for Life. Their work is centered in food insecure areas in Washington, D.C., and focuses on connecting individuals to locally grown fruits and vegetables.
