 
Why
are food hubs all the rage with healthy food advocates? Many communities
identify food hubs as a critical strategy for increasing access to healthy food
in a variety of settings - from communities to schools to healthcare. Food hubs
can provide an important piece of healthy food infrastructure - aggregating and
distributing healthy food grown nearby to food retailers and institutional food
services. What's involved in starting a food hub? What do you need to know?
What should you avoid? What kind of homework is required? Why do some food hubs
work and others fail? Who are the right partners and what are the steps?
Join
us on April 29, 2015 from 9:30 - 10:30 for the webinar, "Secrets to
Successful (and Failed) Food Hubs: What You Need to Know."
This
webinar will answer the above questions and many others for partnerships and
communities wondering if a food hub is right for them. We'll share examples of
successful and unsuccessful food hubs, what resources are available, and what's
involved in planning a financially viable food hub to help increase access to
healthy food in communities across Minnesota. Click here to join. Password: Secrets2015#
The
Schoolyard Garden can inspire in many ways and offer teachable moments for all
disciplines. It can promote collaboration, build community, enhance engagement,
build social emotional awareness, and provide a number of tasty and healthy
treats. This session will help you to explore and become comfortable with ways
that the schoolyard garden can support your curricula, regardless of grade
level or discipline. Whether you are a beginner or expert, you are welcome to
join in discovering new ways that the schoolyard garden can enrich the lives of
all those in your school community. For more information on location,
presenter, and registration please visit this link.
You will hear from New York City about the Shop Healthy! Program which is a
multi-faceted approach to improving healthy food and
beverage offerings in stores across the city, including work with retailers and
distributors. Please come with questions or issues you would like to
discuss on the call as we will have approximately 20-25
minutes allotted for discussion.
1-877-915-2761 | participant code 54261519
Join The Commons Hotel in Minneapolis to
learn how community leaders, business owners and advocates are getting more
people on bikes more often in Minnesota. With more than 4,000 miles of paved
trails, endless biking routes, an outstanding mountain biking scene, and one of
the nation’s largest bike-share programs, Minnesota offers excellent options
for every kind of cyclist.
Hosted in Minneapolis, currently the
second most bike-friendly city in the country, the PedalMN Bike Conference
offers firsthand knowledge of how Minnesota communities are creating
partnerships, connecting trails, and starting business ventures in pursuit of
building the “Bike-Friendly State.” Bicycling promotes and supports local
economies, tourism, the environment and healthy lifestyles. Details and registration here.
This
webinar will cover some food service terminology, highlighting benchmarking,
operational measurements, and tracking usage ratios of foods. Additionally, it will detail the implementation of specific, healthy menu changes,
such as increasing produce, converting to fresh foods, and using more healthy
fats and whole grains–all of which can help reduce overall sodium in food
service settings. Furthermore, a local public health agency representative will
share tips for success based upon experience working with a food service
provider to reduce sodium. Click here to register.
CDC’s
Division of Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Obesity has released two new
spotlights in its Evaluability Assessments
Spotlights series. These new documents focus on joint-use
agreement (JUA) initiatives in Arkansas and Virginia.
JUAs
increase opportunities for physical activity by allowing groups – usually a
school and a city or private organization – to share indoor and outdoor
spaces for physical activity, such as gymnasiums, athletic fields, and
playgrounds. These JUA spotlights describe Arkansas’ and Virginia’s
initiatives, including their goals, what the initiatives were able to accomplish,
and lessons for states that are considering similar undertakings.
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