Action Summit: Schools and Restaurants that Trigger Nourishment Economies

On June 26^th and 27^th, twenty change leaders behind innovative schools and restaurants that kindle physical, economic and cultural health in their communities and their nations are gathering to compare approaches and spark new actions.

This Action Summit is taking place on the campus of the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque, New Mexico, USA. It focuses on the overlap of “nourishment entrepreneurship” and two of the forces we’ve seen triggering Nourishment Economies:

1.  Food businesses emphasizing traditional foods, including restaurants and commercial food processing at substantial scale, often with direct and innovative linkages between chefs and the harvesters of the food (on farms or in the wild).

2.  Schools that build nourishment-cycles into student learning and community fabric, including primary, secondary, tertiary and technical schools. These include classroom strategies and tools; monitoring nutritional and health metrics in students, soils and/or ecosystems; school meal programs; gardens or farms linked to student and community challenges; nourishment-entrepreneur role modeling; and more.

A link to key insights and actions arising among this interesting group is provided in the Comments section below (and we welcome additional observations, inputs and ideas here!)

Participants include a fascinating range of change leaders and support networks, including Allan Savory and Jody Butterfield, Sylvia Banda of Zambia, Mwalimu Musheshe of Uganda, Marta Echavarria of Ecuador, Sean Sherman the Sioux Chef, Lilian Hill of the Hopi Tutskwa Permaculture Institute, and many more.

We wish them the best at this Action Summit and in their system-changing enterprises!