Extension
It Starts With Us
| 2066 - Nutrition and Food Systems General | ||
|---|---|---|
| 2066.3) | 1344 |
Dollars in EBT, WIC, or Senior benefits redeemed at farmers’ markets |
| 2066.4) | 73 |
Number of families/caregivers who reported supplementing their diets with healthy foods that they grew or preserved (community or backyard gardens, fishing, hunting, farmers markets) |
| 2066.5) | 32 |
Number of individuals who reported increased knowledge, skills, or intentions related to using the nutrition facts label |
| 2066.2) | 389 |
Number of individuals who reported they utilized delivery systems/access points (e.g. farmers’ markets, CSAs, WIC, food pantries) that offer healthy foods |
| 2066.1) | 50 |
Number of individuals who reported eating 4-6 servings of fruits and/or vegetables daily |
Author: Joy Rose
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The SNAP Ed Nutrition Assistant was concerned about attracting clients to the virtual nutrition lessons made necessary by the COVID 19 pandemic. Mindful of the increase in food insecurity brought on by the pandemic (an increase of 24 percent in the summer 0f 2020 as compared to the 2018 statistics according to the Feeding America Organization –research@feedingamerica.org) putting food in to the hands of more Wolfe residents was also an aspiration. Fortunately, while atten
Author: Joy Rose
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
A group meeting that began over a year ago was named “Ways to Eat Well Wednesday”. The name was used because Wednesday was the day participants could also pick up their commodity box. The group was comprised of senior citizens and their guest as they took it upon themselves to recruit attendees to “help me out”. The group was established by providing the convenience of picking up the boxes without having to wait in line. The NEP assistant put toge
Author: Joy Rose
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The SNAP-Ed assistant was exploring ways to utilize funding for raised garden beds and also maintain the social distancing of 6 feet between participants. Thinking it would take more activities than just planting in the raised garden to provide participants something to do, and occupy them while they waited for their turn to plant in the raised beds.; once again good partnering and combining resources solved the problems. The two SNAP-Ed assistants combined their shares of the funding
Author: Joy Rose
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
According to County Health Demographics at https://www.countyhealthrankings.org/app/kentucky/2019/rankings/wolfe/county/outcomes/overall/snapshot, the physical inactivity rate in Wolfe County for 2019 was 35%. To have a partner who promoted physical activity involved with our nutrition program would address 2 of our county’s needs. When learning of a line dancing instructor who planned to start beginning classes, the NEP assistant made a proposal. The line dancing could b
Author: Stacy Trent
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed our lives, we’re separated from extended family and friends, schools have been closed. We are learning new ways to cope with isolation, stress, and anxiety. These don’t just affect adult’s health but also youth as well. To address this issue the Wolfe County Cooperative Extension Service, Nutrition Education Assistant created “Lunchtime Live with Brooke and Baylee,” (two volunteers willing to help prepare recipes). Each week one of
Author: Stacy Trent
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
The COVID-19 has turned our lives upside down and has been challenging on how to provide services to our community. In person programming has been canceled, leaving us looking for ways to reach these clientele in the community. To address this issue the Wolfe County Cooperative Extension Service, Nutrition Education Assistant partnered with the Family and Consumer Science Agent to provide a different form of programming. An online cooking challenge called “Chopped: Extension Edition”
Author: Stacy Trent
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Our lives have been turned upside down due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Everything that is important to us has been affected by this virus. How we communicate, interact with one another, how we travel has been impacted, programs, schools, and stores are all being forced to close their doors. In any challenge there is opportunity and during this difficult time we have had to be more open to new thinking and new ways of doing things we have only thought of as being to bold or impossible. To address t
Author: Stacy Trent
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic in March of 2020 new guidelines on how individuals and businesses would operate, guiding families to stay home more and to limit their time around other individuals. It was important that the clientele in the community were still being reached. New and interesting ways of reaching these clients were offered. After acknowledging this need in the community the Wolfe County Cooperative Extension Service Nutrition Education Assistant partnered with the 4H agent and creat
Author: Alyssa Cox
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
As the pandemic hit, the plans for our bi-annual Pumpkin Days were well underway! Traditionally, this day encompasses 1500 Headstart, Preschool, Kindergarten and first graders attending a day of activities, recipe tasting and stories all centered around pumpkins... they even take a trip to the pumpkin patch to pick their very own pumpkin. As fall approached, the hopes of hosting the day in-person at the Robinson Station for Appalachian Resource Sustainability diminished. Agents were determined t
Author: Joy Rose
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
WOLFE CHOW- Families Cooking TogetherThe Nutrition Education Assistant teamed up with Wolfe County 4-H and Wolfe County High and Middle School Family Resource and Youth Service Center to do a cook at home –family program, during COVID 19 while in person programming was limited. To add more interest to the program, we decided to use slow-cooker recipes. Recipes were chosen from the current Nutrition Education list. Additionally, with the help of&n
Author: Stacy Trent
Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General
As a result of the COVID-19 state of emergency, traditional school schedules and learning systems have changed over the last year. The result of this led to the loss of free and reduced school meals for numerous Kentucky children. The Pandemic Electronic Benefit Transfer Stimulus was created for children to receive from October 2020 until the end of the current school year, which will carry on through a program that is in conjunction with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the U.S. D
