Knowledge Resource Center for Ecological Environment in Arid Area
| 项目编号 | 1015098 |
| Eradicating Food Deserts in Neighborhoods through the Development of School Gardens | |
| Franklin, Tiffany | |
| 主持机构 | 1890 - SOUTHERN UNIVERSITY AND A&M COLLEGE |
| 开始日期 | 2018 |
| 结束日期 | 2021 |
| 资助机构 | US-NIFA（美国食品与农业研究所） |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| 国家 | 美国 |
| 中文简介 | 3020 - Education |
| 英文简介 | Goals / Objectives The overall goal of this project is to eradicate food deserts in neighborhoods through the development of school gardens by educating local community people and students on the importance of growing their own produce, which will utilize a hands-on approach to gardening.Specific Objectives are:1. To increase nutritional awareness.2. To increase leadership development skills, self-esteem and environmental stewardship among school age children.3. To teach sustainable gardening techniques thatare transferable or easily replicated.Project Methods Procedure for Accomplishing ObjectiveIn an effort to enhance and increase students' nutritional awareness, the Southern University Agricultural Land Grant Campus (SUALGC) will provide classroom and garden experiences to selected youth at each identified school, located in the selected food desert area. Students will engage in weekly activities conducted by an Extension Associate - Community Gardener, which will focus on a different topic. Each week sessions will last approximately one hour at each school location. The SUALGC personnel, BRGA, student and parent volunteers, and teachers will assist with maintaining the gardens. The concept of the curriculum is gardening from inception to consumption, which ranges from selecting a garden site, cost cutting ways to fertilize and water the garden, understanding soil texture and the properties of different soil types, and harvesting the seasonal crops. Each youth will be required to do journal entries to track their gardening experience and progress. This component will reference USDA's MyPlate Initiative during cooking demonstrations so youth will be aware of the food groups and adequate portions sizes. In partnership with LPB, youth will record demonstrations illustrating how they are striving to adapt to healthier living.Procedure for Accomplishing Objectives 2 and 3To increase leadership development skills, self-esteem, and environmental stewardship, andto increase sustainable gardening techniquesthat are replicable among school age youth will be accomplished through classroom instruction, peer-to-peer mentoring with Master Gardeners and volunteers from Ag-related disciplines, and hands-on experiential learning through gardening. It is necessary to "develop youth" from food desert areas because the resources are scarce and this can significantly impact behavior because they usually compare themselves to youth from more established or wealthier areas. By using a holistic approach to address the needs of underserved youth in food desert areas, youth will have the opportunity to work towards becoming model citizens who take pride in themselves and their neighborhoods at an early age. Youth will engage in age-appropriate activities that allow them to learn about character and how to appreciate themselves for who they are and not how they are perceived by others. The peer-to-peer mentoring aspect will assist with accomplishing this task, as Master Gardeners see a need to connect youth to the concept of growing their own food by showing them an honest living that leads to other meaningful opportunities for success. In addition, older youth who have some leadership skills will have the opportunity to increase those skills by mentoring younger youth. The student volunteers from Ag-related disciplines will be trained to adopt the same approach to developing youth and increasing the aforementioned issues.SUALGC will develop an "Annual Fitness Rally", which be held in May just before the end of school to combat obesity since kids tend to overeat during the summertime. This will be accomplished with all partners, specifically the ExxonMobil YMCA, which will assist with increasing youth self-esteem and environmental stewardship by engaging youth in innovative, technologically advanced opportunities, nutritional awareness, physical fitness, and media-related activities. |
| 英文关键词 | 4-h youth development cost-efficient gardening food desert low-income school gardening |
| 来源学科分类 | 3020 - Education |
| 资源类型 | 项目 |
| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/356102 |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Franklin, Tiffany.Eradicating Food Deserts in Neighborhoods through the Development of School Gardens.2018. |
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