Youth Food Movement Australia
Nonprofit Organization Management - Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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Hi. We're YFM.In a nutshell, we run food education projects for young people.Beyond the nutshell, we're a national volunteer-led organisation that aims to build the skills, knowledge and experience that young people have around food. More than that, we empower them to take those skills, knowledge and experiences out into the world and create the food system that they believe in.Why?It's important. Food can often feel like an epic minefield. With everyone from bloggers, scientists, farmers, celebrity chefs, dietary guidelines, friends and your Instagram feed clambering for a say in what goes on your dinner plate, young people are dealing with more mixed messages than autocorrect fail text exchanges with your mum.But ultimately, knowing where your food comes from matters. Here's why:// We're getting fatter// Our farmers are getting older// We're losing food skills, fast// We're wasting huge amounts of the food we grow, and// We're further away from where our food grows than we've ever been.By building a generation of young Australians who can cook, who can read a label, who understand the challenges facing farmers, who know the basics of how food grows and how it reaches our plate, we also build a generation of people that are healthier, more connected to our food and land, and better able to support farmers without it costing us the earth.That's where we come in.YFM exists to help fill in the gaps. We provide a place – be that in pubs, in living rooms, on laptop screens – for information and skills to be exchanged and for learning to happen. We don't believe in telling people what to do, we believe that by young people knowing and sharing more about where our food comes from (how it was grown, who grew it, what can even be done with it ), they become armed with the skills, knowledge and experience to build us a sweet food future.These skills, knowledge and experience, collectively, we like to call ‘food literacy'.
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