Green Dining Alliance

Foundation Grounds Coffee House & Cafe #EatGreenSTL

Today is Give STL Day! Consider donating to earthday365 where your funds will support programs like the Green Dining Alliance and our efforts to make a more sustainable food system in the St. Louis region. Visit the link below to make your donation now! buff.ly/3aNW0Oc

This week's #EatGreenSTL Highlight is Schlafly Beer in Maplewood. Schlafly's Bottleworks location makes sustainability part of their business plan, inplementing ideas of environmental stewardship in everything from chemical use to food sourcing. Learn more at www.greendiningalliance.org.

The Gramophone #EatGreenSTL

earthday365 is proud to present its inaugural Green Dining Week! For 10-days, select GDA-certified restaurants in the St. Louis area will offer special menu items where 20% of the proceeds from sales will go to earthday365 and its programs like the Green Dining Alliance. Click the link below to learn more.

For the next two weeks, we will be highlighting our Green Dining Week participants who you can visit starting April 16th until April 25th for specially curated menu options that will contribute 20% of sales to earthday365. To kick things off, today's feature is The Dam located on Morgan Ford in Tower Grove South. You can get there Mean Green or The Dam burgers to help support earthday365 and our programs like the Green Dining Alliance. Check them out starting this Friday and follow us for more GDW specials!

Green Dining Week is just one week away! Make sure to visit one of the participating restaurants, buy one of their GDW specials and 20% of the proceeds will go to earthday365. Click the link below to learn more! https://greendiningalliance.org//03/green-dining-week-2021/ This event is sponsored by: StraightUp Solar ... Sauce Magazine Garcia Properties Blackrock Consulting LLC See more

Kounter Kulture #EatGreenSTL

This week's #EatGreenSTL Highlight is Llywelyn's Pub. Llywelyn’s Pub in Webster Groves is a leader in energy efficient innovations, with solar panels, a white roof, and even a charging station for electric vehicles! Learn more at www.greendiningalliance.org.

THE DAM IS OPEN & READY TO SERVE YOU SOME FAT TUESDAY FOOD! Of course, still try burgers, FF, Poutine or Jalapeno Poppers!!! Our homemade Chili is great for today too!! Be safe in the snow out there!!

Congratulations to Side Project Brewing for recertifying as a 5-star GDA member! Side Project is a brewery and beer hall located near the intersection of Manchester and Big Bend where you can grab a beer on tap or to-go. They add to the City of Maplewood’s efforts to decrease the environmental impact of their businesses. The brewery gives its used grains to a local farmer to be used as feed for its animals. This reduces the impact of the brewing process by giving another life... to the brewing waste. They also work to reduce their waste in other ways. The old barrels are sold for those who want to use in home décor or event decorations. As water is a key component in the brewing process, Side Project reduces the amount of water they use in other areas on the facility such as hand washing everything and affixing all of their sinks with aerators. They also work to have the best quality of water by testing it for heavy metals and using a carbon filter system. You can enjoy some of the filtered water at their cooling station where you can grab a cup or refill your reusable water bottle. Learn more about Side Project Brewing at www.greendiningalliance.org.

Flavor 360 #EatGreenSTL

We have had some notable leaders in agronomy come out of our state of Missouri but very few as strong and diverse as George Washington Carver. He was a leader i...n agriculture innovation and a proud son of Missouri, born about 1864 (exact year unknown) to Moses Carver on a farm near Diamond, Mo. Now a role model for determination and persistence, tragedy affected his life before birth when his father died in an accident. Still an infant, Carver and his mother were kidnapped by slave raiders. Although baby Carver was returned to the farm, his mother was never heard from again. Carver wasn’t a strong child and could not work in the fields which forced him to help with household chores and gardening. Through many hours of exploration around his home, Carver grew a strong interest in plants later becoming nicknamed the plant doctor. He had an impeccable thirst for knowledge that eventually led him, at the age of 12 to his first schooling experience - a one-room schoolhouse in southwest Missouri. After attending high school in Kansas, Carver was accepted as the first black student to Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa. With aspirations of having a career in science, Carver transferred to the Iowa Agricultural College (now known as Iowa State University.) In 1894, Carver gained his Bachelor of Science degree and earned his Master of Science in bacterial botany and agriculture in 1896. Dr. Carver became the first black faculty member of Iowa College. Later in 1896, Dr. Carver was invited by Booker T. Washington to lead the Agriculture Department at the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute (later known as Tuskegee University). Dr. Carver remained there for 47 years! Dr. Carver was very interested in helping poor southern farmers who were farming on low quality soil depleted of nutrients after decades of growing only cotton and tobacco in the same soil. Dr. Carver and others encouraged farmers to restore nitrogen to their soils through systematic crop rotation helping the region to recover. He established an agriculture extension in Alabama and founded an industrial research lab where he worked tirelessly on the development of hundreds of applications for new plants. Carver discovered more than 300 uses for peanuts and hundreds more uses for soybeans, pecans and sweet potatoes. According to the National Peanut Board, Dr. Carver published the research bulletin, "How to Grow the Peanut and 105 Ways of Preparing it For Human Consumption." During that time, the boll weevil had destroyed the cotton crop and many farmers had turned to peanuts as a cash crop. Alabama residents saw cotton oil mills converted to produce peanut oil. This was something that farmers could thrive on - livestock could eat the peanut plant and sharecroppers could feed their families on crops that weren't sold. Dr. Carver and the peanut helped save the economy of the southern part of the U.S. Encouraged by a strong will and much curiosity, Carver continued his research on the peanut. Through separation of the fats, oils, gums, resins and sugars, he went on to find many uses for the peanut. According to the National Peanut Board, food products ranged from peanut lemon punch, chili sauce, caramel, peanut sausage, mayonnaise and coffee. Cosmetics included face powder, shampoo, shaving cream and hand lotion. Insecticides, glue, charcoal, rubber, nitroglycerine, plastics and axle grease are just a few of the many valuable peanut products discovered by Dr. Carver. After a lifetime of achievements, recognitions and awards, Dr. Carver died in 1943, and is buried on the campus at Tuskegee. Upon his death, Franklin D. Roosevelt sent this message, "All mankind are the beneficiaries of his discoveries in the field of agricultural chemistry. The things which he achieved in the face of early handicaps will for all time afford an inspiring example to youth everywhere." Today, the Missouri Department of Agriculture is housed in the George Washington Carver Building in Jefferson City, Mo. On the wall in the front lobby a plaque dedicated to Carver’s life reads, A proud son of Missouri, a true humanitarian, a trailblazer in agricultural science, technology and philanthropy. A role model for persistence, determination, imagination and inspiration in all aspects of our lives.

SweetArt Bakeshop & Cafe #EatGreenSTL

RE: COVID-19 (Coronavirus) As you may know, many restaurants are closing their doors for the time being while others are switching over their service options to be more accommodating to their customers' safety. Here's a list of the GDA restaurants and their service options during this time.... NOTE: This list will be updated as each restaurant changes their options.

Olive + Oak #EatGreenSTL

Saint Louis Hop Shop #EatGreenSTL

This week's #EatGreenSTL Highlight is Kaldi's Coffee on Skinker near Forest Park. They serve their unique relationship coffees that stress a high level of social and environmental sustainability between the growers and their product. Learn more at www.greendiningalliance.org.

Seed Sprout Spoon #EatGreenSTL

PuraVegan Cafe #EatGreenSTL