CeresFest pours into brewery

Celtic-fusion band Greenhouse to perform at Ceres Project fundraiser|
LORNA SHERIDAN
INDEX-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER

Ceres can cater your next event

Since 2012 Ceres Community Project has offered healthy, local and organic catering for events ranging from parties and business meetings to fundraisers for fellow nonprofits like United Way of the Wine Country, Sonoma County Conservation Action, Social Advocates for Youth, Seeds of Change, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and the Laguna Foundation. Their services include everything from drop off to fully staffed sit-down meals with rentals. Catering profits supporting Ceres’ programs empowering youth and supporting low-income community members with healthy organic and delivered meals during illness

CeresFest 2016 is a community celebration and fundraiser hosted by the Ceres Project at Lagunitas Brewery from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. on Monday, May 2. The evening includes an organic, seasonal Irish-inspired dinner, live music by Celtic-fusion band Greenhouse and a raffle.

Tickets to the evening are $25 for adults, $12.50 for children 5 to 12 and children under 5 are free.

The Ceres Project supports low-income people struggling because of a serious health challenge with free and home-delivered nourishing organic and locally produced meals and nutrition education. Research shows healthy meal support is a low-cost “upstream” investment that significantly improves health outcomes and lowers health care costs.

All the meals Ceres provides are prepared by local teens between the ages of 14 and 19 who volunteer in the Ceres three-quarter-acre food production garden and three commercial kitchen sites in Marin and Sonoma counties.

Ceres aims to provide the knowledge and skills to help low-income communities to make and maintain real change in how they eat.

The nonprofit publishes and distributes its “Nourishing Connections Cookbook,” offers a class called Healing Foods Basics, partners with local community clinics to teach nutrition and offers locally-grown whole food catering.

Since 2010, community groups around the country have reached out for information on how to bring Ceres’ innovative model to their towns.

Eight communities, from Bay Village, Ohio and Nashville, Tennessee to Geneva, Illinois and Santa Cruz, California operate programs based on Ceres’ work.

In Sonoma, Ceres will next be offering a healing food basics class from 6 to 8 p.m. on May 25 at Sonoma Valley Hospital.

Register online at ceresprojectevents.org.

Lagunitas Brewing Company is located at 1280 N. McDowell Blvd. in Petaluma. Contact Julie Foley at 829-5833 x108 or julief@ceresproject.org, with any questions.

Ceres can cater your next event

Since 2012 Ceres Community Project has offered healthy, local and organic catering for events ranging from parties and business meetings to fundraisers for fellow nonprofits like United Way of the Wine Country, Sonoma County Conservation Action, Social Advocates for Youth, Seeds of Change, Sebastopol Center for the Arts, and the Laguna Foundation. Their services include everything from drop off to fully staffed sit-down meals with rentals. Catering profits supporting Ceres’ programs empowering youth and supporting low-income community members with healthy organic and delivered meals during illness

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