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Increase Nutritious Food Access
Accessing Nutritious Foods
Drake Schalk, Stith, Tarry,
Food Preservation
Plate It Up! Kentucky Proud
Food Preparation
Accessing Nutritious Foods (general)
Nutrition Education Programs help families gain access to food and stretch food dollars; communities to decrease hunger; and local food assistance programs to educate recipients on healthy and safe food preparation methods. Agents, paraprofessionals and volunteers are pivotal in influencing policies, systems, and environments and in training consumers and producers to maximize local access to food products from farm to table.
•Increase average fruit and vegetable consumption by 1 or more servings per day.
•Improve food management skills and healthy eating habits.
•Youth will be food secure when school is not in session.
•Increase access to more local foods.
•Redeem Farmer’s Market Nutrition Program benefit.
•Plant, harvest and preserve fresh produce.
•Apply improved food preparation skills, food management skills, food safety and healthy eating habits.
•Increase Youth who access other food sources when not in school.
•Understand the importance of sustainable local agriculture to individual health and financial well-being.
•Learn to grow, prepare and preserve food.
•Learn to incorporate unfamiliar foods or foods not currently eaten into a healthy diet.
•Increase knowledge and understanding of healthy eating, food safety and food resource management.
•Learn about community support services to increase food security.
Evaluation: Gardening and Food Preservation Survey
Outcome: Citizens will preserve fresh produce.
Indicator: Number of families preserving produce and how much.
Method: Survey
Timeline: 3 month follow up
Evaluation: Plate It Up KY Proud Evaluation
Outcome: Citizens utilizing fresh produce to make new recipes.
Indicator: Feedback
Method: Evaluation
Timeline: Overall, Follow up
Audience: Citizens
Project or Activity: Food Preservation Programs
Content or Curriculum: Food Preservation Publication Series
Inputs: Agents, Specialists, CES Facilities & Equipment, Local Farmer’s Markets
Date: July, June
Audience: Citizens
Project or Activity: Food Preparation Programs
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up KY Proud, CES Food & Nutrition Publications and Resources
Inputs: Agents, Specialists, CES Facilities & Equipment, Local Farmer’s Markets
Date: July – June
Audience: Limited Resource Individuals & Families
Project or Activity: Kentucky Nutrition Education Program
Content or Curriculum: Kentucky Nutrition Education Program Curriculum, Plate It Up KY Proud
Inputs: Agents, Specialists, CES Facilities & Equipment, Community Partners
Date: July - June
Audience: Youth, Teens and Volunteers
Project or Activity: 4-H Foods Workshops, 4-H Club and Special Interest
Content or Curriculum: 4-H Foods Curriculum, 4-H Food Preservation , Professor Popcorn
Inputs: Agents, Specialists, Volunteers, CES Facilities & Equipment
Date: July, August
Audience: Citizens
Project or Activity: Cooking with the Calendar
Content or Curriculum: Plate It Up KY Proud, Yearly Food & Nutrition Calendar, CES Publications
Inputs: Agents, Specialists, Volunteers, CES Facilities & Equipment, Local Farmer’s Markets
Date: July-June
Author: LaToya Drake
Major Program: Food Preservation
One in five households in the United States practice home canning, according to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. The Center for Disease Control has stated that 30 percent of botulism cases from the past decade was caused by home canning practices. In an effort to promote safe canning practices in the Barren County community the County Agent for Family and Consumer Sciences partnered with retired agents and the Nutrition Education Program to present a 3 day Food Preservation Wo
Author: LaToya Drake
Major Program: Promoting Healthy Homes and Communities (general)
The Barren County Brown Bag program is a "grab and go" educational opportunity available for pick up in the box outside of the Extension Office. Barren County residents are encouraged to pick up regular packets featuring useful and relevant farm and family information. This program was initiated to provide continued programming and #healthyathome activities for families during the coronavirus quarantine. The self-serve program covers topics and provides resources from all program areas
Author: LaToya Drake
Major Program: Food Preparation
About a third (31%, 2017) of Barren County residents are obese according to County Health Rankings and Roadmaps. Cooking at home may be one strategy that folks may implement to encourage weight loss. People who frequently cook meals at home eat healthier and consume fewer calories than those who cook less, according to the John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health research. In an effort to continue programming in the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and to encourage Barren County Resid
