Programs we Offer

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The programs listed below can be selected as single units to be presented in one 2-hour session. Or, you can choose a series of topics to be scheduled according to your calendar. You might consider choosing several units to fill a weekend retreat. With the option of catered meals, this can truly become a weekend spent "around the Kitchen Table".

If you'd like to design an afternoon or a weekend around "The Kitchen Table", please call us at 563-380-3610 or 563-380-3498. You can also e-mail us here.

Program Topic
Let us prepare a gourmet meal with real food for your group. We will obtain all the ingredients (at least as many as we possibly can) from within 50 miles of your location. You won't be disappointed!

Facilitated discussions with your group

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The programs listed at the right are general overviews of multi-layered topics. They can be designed to fit your requirements, from a basic discussion to a detailed, total immersion experience.

We suggest choosing the topic that most interests you. Let us help you and your group begin the process of creating your ideal community.

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Kitchen Table Communities

Community begins at the kitchen table. Your Kitchen Table shapes the global community. Your family, friends and neighbors make up the first level of that community.

Every item you put on that table brings another community to the table.

In effect, (especially given the global economy of which we are all a part) your kitchen table is the beginning of the world community.

Having a major effect on the global economy is well within your grasp.

Let us help you discover your impact and start making a difference in the world.

The Voiceless

Mary and Jeff both spent a long time in Postville after the infamous debacle ICE called an immigration raid.

The voiceless have many faces. We saw the desperation in the eyes of the Guatemalans who had lost parents, brothers and sisters, husbands and wives to that senseless raid. With the people who followed, we were in the trenches right beside them -- men and women just out of prison, inner-city homeless looking for a fresh start, and others from all over the world who came on the false promises of the labor recruiters working for Agri-Processors.

Who are the Voiceless bringing the food to your table? What can you do to make their voices heard?

Your Diet and Politics, Changing a Recipe for Disaster to a Recipe for World Peace

What do you get when you mix food and politics?

A revolving door in Washington, DC that blends and shreds money to look like a bowl of salad.

How can you turn that salad from one that feeds on you to one that feeds you?

This session usually ends up being one of our liveliest, generating LOTS of discussion from the participants in your group. You'll be amazed at the simple steps you can take to begin making a change in the most intractable of places...from your own kitchen to the Halls of Congress.

God didn't make high-fructose corn syrup

If you consider fructose a safe, natural sugar, think again. You’ve been had by one of the biggest nutritional bait-and-switch ploys in years.

First, you should know that while most people associate the word “fructose” with “fruit sugar”, more than 95% of fructose in America comes from cheaply processed corn and not from fruit at all. High-fructose corn syrup is sort of like “fructose-plus”. More concentrated, more dangerous. And it gives food makers a much higher profit margin.

There’s been a quiet revolution going on in America since 1970: the gradual replacement of cane and beet sugar by corn syrups. And little wonder. Corn syrup, particularly high-fructose corn syrup, is cheap to produce, sweet to the tongue, and easy to store safely. According to the USDA, the average American consumed a half pound of high-fructose corn syrup in 1970. By the mid-1990s, that figure had jumped to 55.3 pounds per person per year. This year, we’ll see that number jump to 66 pounds.

Scary? You bet!

Is it killing people? The rise in obesity, diabetes and related diseases is proof enough.

Let us help you "beat the brainwashing" and stop feeding the monster that is eating us alive.

Options:

We can meet with your group in a personal setting for a straight discussion. Or, we can meet in an area with a kitchen and provide you with an unbeleivable catered meal using as many local products as we can possibly obtain in your area.