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Fresh Fruit And Veggies For Correctional Facilities, Katie Melara
Fresh Fruit And Veggies For Correctional Facilities, Katie Melara
All Student-Created Educational Resources
This handout depicts the benefits of fresh fruit and vegetables for incarcerated people and their communities, with proposed solutions for increasing fresh produce in correctional facilities. The content of this handout is based primarily on information Eating Behind Bars: Ending the Hidden Punishment of Food in Prison Report by Impact Justice.
Rockets: Reaching Our Community Through Kindness, Education, Togetherness And Stem – A Sustainable Communities Project In Sumter County, Georgia, Crystal Perry
National Youth Advocacy and Resilience Conference
This poster session highlights the ROCKETS program implemented in Sumter County Schools through UGA Extension. Through the ROCKETS Project in-school sessions, youth with disabilities are provided additional opportunities to belong to a larger group of youth through the Georgia 4-H Program. The ROCKETS Project focuses on Agricultural literacy and STEM education as content areas to cultivate, recruit and graduate the next generation of a highly-skilled diverse workforce.
The Impact Of Home Gardening In Upstate South Carolina, Abby Odom
The Impact Of Home Gardening In Upstate South Carolina, Abby Odom
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The aim of this study is to determine the current rate of home gardening among adults as well as if this type of vegetable and fruit cultivation has any effect on daily and weekly food group consumption.
An Assessment Of A 13-Week Teaching Gardens Intervention On Healthy Behavior Outcomes In 4th And 5th Grade Students At Crestwood Elementary School In Las Vegas, Nevada, Miranda Corgiat
UNLV Theses, Dissertations, Professional Papers, and Capstones
Nearly 13 million children and adolescents are considered to be obese in the United States, with children enrolled in Clark County School District showing elevated overweight and obese weight statuses compared to national averages. Carrying an excessive amount of weight can lead children to experience a multitude of complications with their physical and mental health as well as increase their risk of developing various chronic diseases. The American Heart Association's Las Vegas Teaching Gardens program implemented a school-based garden pilot study to target environmental causes of obesity in 4th and 5th grade students at Crestwood Elementary School. The objective of …
Mushrooms, Susan Haws
Mushrooms, Susan Haws
All Current Publications
This publication is a guide to eating, selecting, cooking, and storing mushrooms.