Author Archives: Jenna Shea

Featured in City of Decatur’s Active Living Community Video!

The City of Decatur recently released a video highlighting the programs that make it an active living community. Amongst their varied programs was the Community Farmers Markets cooking classes with the seniors at the Decatur Housing Authority (DHA), along with the garden and cooking classes for the elementary school students at the DHA – aContinue reading “Featured in City of Decatur’s Active Living Community Video!”

10 Ways to Incorporate Farm to School into the Classroom

    Literature. Provide on-level fiction and non-fiction children’s literature about food and where it comes from to pique students’ interest and build their background knowledge. Lunch Time. The cafeteria can be utilized as a learning experience. Every day, students are making choices about which food to choose off of the lunch line and howContinue reading “10 Ways to Incorporate Farm to School into the Classroom”

Methods for Assessing Food-Related Behavior Changes in Adults

In programs that offer food to participants, such as the Stewart Center Food Cooperative, it is imperative to measure consumption in order to measure success. Click below to see a document outlining some ideas for individual journaling to assess consumption of food throughout the week by a family.

Methods for Assessing Food-Related Behavior Change in Kids

The goals of Edible Education lessons include: to create positive experience with food to encourage positive behavior change in food choices While creating positive experiences around food is pretty easy (everyone loves an activity that ends in a snack!) that only accounts for the isolated moment in time. The ultimate goal is that the experiencesContinue reading “Methods for Assessing Food-Related Behavior Change in Kids”