Baton Rouge, La. – SU Ag Center’s Growing Healthy
program has been working with its partner, Front Yard Bike Shop, to provide
youth with seed starter kits during the stay at home order.
The kits consist of four different types of
vegetable seeds, a seed tray, soil, and plant labels.
“This will give the students something to keep
them occupied and maybe some of them will even turn into successful vegetable
gardens,” expressed Stephanie Elwood, SU Ag Center Extension Associate.
During the governor’s stay at home order, the
staff of Front Yard Bikes has been delivering up to 150 meals daily to their
students who would have normally participated in their after school programming,
along with grade-appropriate academic worksheets. The SU Ag Center provided the
starter kits to add to their efforts.
Front Yard Bike Shop is a non-profit bike
mechanics and afterschool program. It also serves as the location of the SU Ag
Center’s Growing Healthy program, which is the gardening component of the Ag
Center’s SNAP-Ed program.
SNAP-Ed is the nutrition promotion and
obesity prevention component of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
(SNAP), the U.S. domestic hunger safety net formerly known as Food Stamps that
provides economic benefits to eligible, low-income individuals and families for
food purchases. The program teaches
people using or eligible for SNAP about proper nutrition and how to make their
food dollars stretch further. SNAP-Ed participants also learn to be physically
active.
The SU Ag Center’s
SNAP-Ed program has been in existence for more than 20 years and operates in 13
parishes throughout the state of Louisiana: Ascension, Avoyelles, Calcasieu,
East Baton Rouge, East Carroll, East Feliciana, Evangeline, Jefferson Davis,
Madison, Morehouse, St. James, Richland, and West Carroll.
For additional information about Front
Yard Bikes, visit www.frontyardbikes.com.
Information about the SU Ag Center’s SNAP-Ed
program is available at, https://www.suagnutrition.com/.
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