Teaching, Feeding, Learning

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Teaching, Feeding, Learning

• Beaufort County Cooperative Extension
• Ann Darkow, County Extension Director
• Susan Chase, Extension Agent, FCS
• Tanya Weyhrauch, Extension Agent, Horticulture

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Health of Our Children 2007

• NC - 5th highest rate of overweight children
• 62.8 of BC elementary children on free/reduced
  lunch or are eligible
• 1/3 NC parents report children eat fast food 2 or
  more times per week
• 1 in 10 report children watch more than 4 hours
  of TV each day

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Cost of Poor Health

• 2007 - 3,550,836 (8) of total dollars spent on
  BC Medicaid were attributed to overweight and
  obesity.

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Children Youth in NC

• Overweight or obese 30
• Not getting recommended
• - Fruit Servings 37
• - Vegetable Servings 74
• - Physical Activity 27

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As a Result

• Childrens life expectancy declining due to an
  increase in overweight
• One in three US children born in 2000 will
  develop diabetes in their lifetime

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However

• Active young people active adults
• Family meals are associated with a greater intake
  of fruits and vegetables and fewer fried foods
  and soft drinks

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Snap-Ed Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Educational Program

• Audience supplemental nutrition assistance
  participants/eligible
• Schools with at least 50 of students receiving
  free school lunch
• Funding through USDA - Food Nutrition Service
  (FNS)

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Supplemental Nutrition Education

• Set of learning experiences designed to
  facilitate the voluntary adoption of eating and
  other nutrition-related behaviors conducive to
  health and well being

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Steps to Health

• Fruits
• Vegetables
• Whole grains
• Nutrition facts
• Label reading
• Low-sugar beverages

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Steps to Health

• Provides 7 nutrition and physical activity
  lessons to 3rd graders.
• Northeast Elementary- Pinetown
• 1 Pre-survey class
• 1 Post-survey class
• Curriculum developed by NCSU

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Nutrition Lesson

• Food demonstrations
• Taste tests
• Classroom physical activities
• Recipes, nutrition and physical activity handouts
  are sent home to the parents.

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Steps to Health ImpactsTeachers/Parents Reported
Students

• Increased knowledge about safe food handling.
• Increased knowledge in eating healthier foods
• Adopted at least one safe food handling practice
  such as hand-washing before eating.

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Beaufort County Master Gardeners

• Members of the local community
• Take active interest in their lawns, trees,
  shrubs, and gardens.
• Interested and willing to work with people in the
  community to share knowledge
• Trained by a Horticulture Agent
• Volunteer with Cooperative Extensionto provide
  horticulture-related information and education
  to the public

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Beaufort County Master Gardeners
During 2008, there were 63 Master Gardener
Volunteers who provided 1977 volunteer hours of
service, 932 hours of training and travel time,
made 1488 face to face contacts, and raised over
4,000 in fundraisers and training fees a
contribution of 60,755 to the Cooperative
Extension program.
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Rain Shelter
A rain shelter allows for demonstration of easy
water conservation techniques like rainwater
harvesting using Rain Barrels
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Raised Beds Demonstration
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Composting Drip Irrigation
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Plant Sale
Annual Plant Sale raises funds for educational
programming
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Community Service
Saturday Morning Farmers Market information booth
Master Gardeners answer questions and share
knowledge with the community
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Educational Programs

• Workshops
• Pruning
• Vegetable Gardening
• Butterfly Gardening
• Lawn Landscape Care
• Etc.

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Activity Tables

• Will be built to use with children and for those
  in wheelchairs to pot plants and do other various
  plant related activities.

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Define Community Garden

• a piece of land gardened by a group of people.
• provide access to fresh produce as well as access
  to satisfying labor, neighborhood improvement,
  sense of community and connection to the
  environment.

No one can garden alone. -Elizabeth Lawrence
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As the garden grows, so does the Gardener.
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We all share the same backyard
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Partners in the Garden
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Our Purpose

• Encourage gardening health benefits of eating
  local, fresh produce
• Physical activity
• Sense of accomplishment
• Encourage better nutrition

More grows in the garden than the gardener
sows. -Spanish Proverb
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Our Purpose

• Help combat rising costs of imported fruits
  vegetables.

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Our Purpose

• Help combat increasing health problems in eastern
  NC.

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Community Garden Site

• 1.3 Acres of land
• Airport Road, Wash, NC
• Facilities across the street _at_ Extension Center
• Personal vegetable garden plots
• Demonstration Garden Activity Field

Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
committed citizens can change the world. Indeed,
its the only thing that ever has. -Margaret Mead
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Site Continued

• We Provide
• Low-cost garden plots for citizens
• 7 Deer fencing
• Well water for irrigation
• Amended soil
• lime fertilizer applied
• Compost

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Almost Ready
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Garden Members

• We Currently Have
• 29 Plot license holders
• Including Easter Seals and the Beaufort County
  Developmental Center
• 11 Financial Donors
• In-kind Donations
  - Local farmer plowed land
  - Crop Production Services Applied
  lime/fertilizer
• 10 Volunteers

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Educational Opportunities

• Best management practices for vegetable gardens
• Environmental Stewardship in the Garden
• Water Conservation
• Integrated Pest Management
• Proper way to store prepare fresh produce
• Proper nutrition

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Partner With Us

• Garden Pal 20
• Garden Friend 50
• Garden Supporter 75
• Garden Sponsor 100
• Garden Benefactor 250
• Garden Sustainer 500
• Garden Cultivator 1,000
• Garden Supplier Supplies Services

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Kids in the Garden

• Students who participate in
• Steps to Health this year will attend the
• Kids in the Garden program.

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Kids in the Garden

• Integrated program
• Builds on healthy lifestyle
• Physical Activity Nutrition
• Coalition (P.A.N.)

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Kids in the Garden

• Seventy-five 3rd graders
• 5 Education Stations
• Planting in the Garden
• Vermiculture - composting with worms
• Water Conservation Rain Barrels
• Healthy Food Taste Test
• Herbs take home plantings

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Teaching, Feeding, LearningOne Garden at a Time