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Stephanie
M. Elwood, center, interacting with students at Bridge Academy as they start
their fall gardens in Kindergarten and 1st Grade classes
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Baton
Rouge, La. - The Southern University Land-Grant Campus is Nutritionally
Yours. Nutritionally Yours encompasses the Land-Grant
Campus’s signature Extension nutrition programs and serves 13 parishes in
the state. Our signature nutrition programs include the Supplemental Nutrition
Assistance Education Program (SNAP-Ed), the Expanded Food and Nutrition Program
(EFNEP), Creating Healthy Enjoyable Foods (C.H.E.F) Camp & Growing Healthy
Initiative. Our Nutritionally Yours programs provide direct and indirect
education to the citizens of Louisiana using a policy, systems and
environmental change (PSE) approach. The policy, systems and environmental
change approach goes beyond programming into the systems that create the structures
in which our program clientele live, work and play.
Nutritionally
Yours intends
to do just that through our Growing Healthy Initiative. The planting of
vegetable gardens, fruit trees, berry bushes, classroom container gardens, are
all used to help increase nutrition knowledge and encourage behavioral change
amongst our clientele. The Growing Healthy Initiative provides hands-on
nutrition education, fresh foods access and sustainable environment in our Nutritionally
Yours sites. The initiative is implemented by our Family and Consumer
Science Agents and SNAP-Ed, EFNEP Nutrition Educators.
As
part of the Growing Healthy Initiative, Stephanie M. Elwood, Extension
Associate, and Kiyana E. Kelly, East Baton Rouge Nutrition Educator, started
fall gardens for 125 students in two classes at Bridge Academy in Baton Rouge. Vegetables
like Arugula, Bok Choy, Cabbage and Mustard Greens were planted in the gardens
on December 5.
Our
nutrition education programming aims to educate the citizens of Louisiana about
the positive benefits of making healthy nutritional choices, expanding their
food dollar, and preparing food safely.
For more information about the Nutritionally
Yours programs, contact us at 225-771-2242 or ellen_mcknight@suagcenter.com.
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