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  • High Risk Patients Learn Nutrition Skills

    Oct 13, 2017

    Through collaborations with three key partners, Nutrition Educators have reached a total of 252 high-risk patients in 2015 and 2016 with nutrition education. Patients and their families learn how to shop, cook, and eat healthy on a limited budget.

    people attending a tasting event

  • Kids Club at Rockland Farmers' Market

    Oct 17, 2017

    Maine SNAP-Ed teamed up with the market manager and local businesses to offer Kids Club, an interactive summer nutrition education program for youth. In 2016, 72 children participated in Kids Club, with the goal of increasing access to fruits and vegetables and encouraging interaction with local farmers—creating lifelong farmers’ market customers in Knox County.

    a girl with a backpack full of vegetables

  • Maine Harvest Bucks Promotion Project

    Oct 17, 2017

    Maine Harvest Bucks are nutrition incentives (funded through the USDA’s Food Insecurity Nutrition Incentive Program) that allow SNAP/EBT shoppers to receive bonus dollars towards the purchase of local fruits and vegetables for every SNAP dollar spent.

    collage of incentive pilot marketing materials

  • Moving Matters!

    2005 $4.75 University of Maine Cooperative Extension.

    This series of handouts teaches the importance of physical activity, by using the Stages of Change Theory to structure fact sheets into pre-contemplation, contemplation, preparation, and action/mai

    thumbnail Moving Matters!

  • New Mainers Learn Strategies to Shop, Cook, and Eat Healthy

    Oct 12, 2017

    “New Mainers,” are from numerous countries of origin and participants have represented at least six different languages. With the support of interpreters, adult and youth participants overcome language and cultural barriers to learn key nutrition concepts. Adult participants learn how to shop and prepare healthy and familiar meals on a limited budget, an essential skill to support adjustment to their new communities.

    picture of people in a cooking class

  • Sustainable Garden for Low-Income Seniors

    Oct 17, 2017

    In 2017, Maine SNAP-Ed Nutrition Educators are helping to establish 10 community gardens across the state, including these raised beds. The educator collaborated with the housing site staff and the residents to prepare a garden site, and through local donations, eight raised garden beds were built and seedlings were planted

    raised garden beds next to a parking lot