Donate Green Stamps to Woodhill Urban Agricultural Group
Wednesday, July 20th, 2011
It’s a new fiscal year for Valley Natural Foods and we have a new Green Stamp Recipient: Woodhill Urban Agricultural Group.
Green Stamps will be collected for Woodhill from July 2011- September 2011.
For last quarter’s Green Stamp Recipient, Dakota County Parks, we were able to raise $450 dollars thanks to everybody’s environmentally-friendly shopping!
What is the Green Stamp Program? Shop with reusable bags and donate the stamped top-portion of your receipts to our current Green Stamp Program recipient (box located near the exit of the store)! Each stamp is worth $.05. Shoppers also have the option to save up their Green Stamps and redeem them for $1.00 savings off their next grocery purchase for every 20 stamps collected.
Why donate your Green Stamps to the Woodhill Urban Agricultural Group? This group is overseeing the development of two of Burnsville’s community gardens at Wolk Park & at the International Outreach Church. Green Stamp funds will help the group put on two events: August 6th Community Gardening Day and their September 24th Opera in the Garden event.
Mission: Restore, preserve and promote health and wellness for diverse populations through sustainable urban agriculture systems, education and community partnerships.
Core Values:
Health and Wellness – Growing, harvesting and eating healthy organic vegetables is the original preventative health care medicine.
Stewardship – Caring for self, the earth and those around us while practicing sustainability, protects natural resources and builds multi-generational appreciation.
Community Building – Enhancing self-awareness, self-reliance and self-empowerment promotes belonging and builds relations among diverse populations.
Education and Research - Serving as a site to teach, train and develop techniques and foundational principles of agriculture builds individual and community capacity.
Preserving Biocultural Heritage - Serving as a model in the preservation of cultural traditions and indigenous agricultural knowledge systems for present and future populations.
