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Massachusetts SNAP-Ed Provides Education and Local Foods for Participants
May 04, 2022
Massachusetts SNAP-Ed families enjoyed growing, preparing, and eating fresh, local vegetables, fruits, and herbs in 2021, with the help of SNAP-Ed implementing agencies and their partners.

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Everyone Eats Community Cookbook
2021 Buy Fresh Buy Local Cape Cod (BFBLCC), in collaboration with Cape Cod Cooperative Extension and its Agricultural/Horticultural/Nutrition/Food Access Programs and the Community.
The Ethnic Garden Community Cookbook will introduce you to a variety of new, fresh vegetables and ingredients that are staples in the kitchens of our Portuguese, Haitian, and Jamaican neighbors.
Community Garden Program during COVID-19 Helps Families Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice
Jan 28, 2021
COVID-19 made the 2020 summer garden program in Plymouth, Massachusetts, uncertain, but UMass Extension’s SNAP-Ed partners found a way to make it succeed, and how! This 4-year-old community gardening program reinvented itself and, in the process, provided safe and healthy food for many families and households in town.

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Green Island Gardens
Jan 29, 2018
Youth worked in a community garden and planter program, called the Green Island Gardens (GIG) project. It was a summer job program through Pernet. The goal was to beautify the retail and residential areas in Worchester. Pernet adopted a state-owned island for this project. They committed to maintain the grounds, and grow fresh produce, herbs, and flowers.

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