Transcript Owatonna School Garden Project

Improving the School Nutrition
Environment....
Legislation, Policies and School Gardens
Consultant to Steele County Public Health: SHIP - School Site
Intervention
Health Care Reform legislation in 2008:
Help Minnesotans live longer, healthier,
better lives by preventing risk factors that
lead to chronic disease.
Reducing the percentage of Minnesotans who use
or are exposed to tobacco.
Reducing the percentage of Minnesotans who are
obese or overweight through better nutrition and
increased physical activity.
Steele County SHIP projects
4 sites targeted for health
improvement.....
• Healthcare
• Worksites
• Community
• Schools
HealthCare.....
• Develop relationships among health
care providers and community leaders
and build partnerships to facilitate active
referral of patients to local resources
that;
– Increase access to high quality nutritious
foods
– Opportunities for physical activity
– Tobacco use cessation
Community......
• Implement policies and practices that
create active communities by
– Increasing opportunities for non-motorized
transportation
– Access to community recreation facilities
Worksite......
• Implement a comprehensive employee
wellness initiative that provides:
– Health assessment with follow-up coaching
– Ongoing health education
– Policies and environment supports that
promote healthy weight and healthy
behaviors
Improve the school nutrition
environment.......
• Implement comprehesive nutrition policies
including;
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Breakfast promotion
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Healthy lunch & snack, including
classroom celebrations and incentives, fundraising,
concessions, & vending
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School gardens
Farm-to-School initiatives
School Lunch Act:
Federal Legislation
The National School Lunch Act was passed in 1946
as a measure to “secure the well-being and health
of children as well as to encourage consumption
of local food.”
Under President Harry Truman
School Lunch Programs:
USA 1900-1960
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• to help dispose of surplus agricultural commodities owned by
the government as a result of price-support agreement with
farmers
• help prevent nutritional deficiencies among low-income
schoolchildren
• Origins were related to national security
- malnourished soldiers
Program Expansion &
Changes
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1946 National School Lunch Program
1966 School Breakfast Program pilot (1971 permanent)
1980’s  for spending (equipment)
1995 - dietary guidelines to reduce fat, saturated fat, cholesterol,
and sugar
1998: School Wellness Policy requirement enacted
2002 Fresh Fruit & Vegetable program
2004 WIC reauthorization - required schools to have wellness
policies
2006: Wellness Policies “in place”
2009 - Institute of Medicine recommendations..........
Eat Well Nutrition Therapy (Lkaupa)
October 2009 Institute of
Medicine report to USDA...
• Increase the amount
and variety of fruits,
vegetables, and
whole grains
• Set a minimum and
maximum level of
calories
• Focus more on
reducing saturated
fat and sodium
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http://www.iom.edu/Reports/2009/School-Meals-Building-Blocks-for-Healthy-Children.aspx
For Immediate Release December 13, 2010
President Obama Signs
Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids
Act of 2010 Into Law
Legislation.
Legislation:
Child Nutrition and Reauthorization Act
• Increases access to school meals to the most at-risk
(streamlining paperwork/documentation)
• Increases program monitoring and integrity
• 1st meal reimbursement rate increase in over 30 years
(for schools that meet updated nutrition standards)
• USDA authorized to set nutrition standards for foods sold
during the school day (meals, ala carte, and school
stores)
• Sets basic standards for school wellness policies
• Helps communities establish farm to school networks,
create school gardens, ensures that more local foods
are used in the school setting
• Breastfeeding support through WIC expanded
Why gardens?
• Eating 5 or more servings of fruit and vegetables a
day is linked to less cancer, heart disease, obesity,
hypertension, gastrointestinal disorders
• Only 10% of children in Minnesota consume “5-ADay”
U.S. production of vegetables is 1/2 of
what is recommended for consumption
• To meet needs of dark green/orange/legumes = 70%
increase in production
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American Journal of Preventive Medicine Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages
472-477, May 2010
U.S needs to double fruit production to meet the
2010 U.S. Dietary Guidelines
American Journal of Preventive Medicine Volume 38, Issue 5, Pages 472-477, May 2010
2008 Farm Bill:
Richard B. Russell National School
Lunch Act
• Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to:
– Encourage participating institutions*
– to purchase unprocessed, locally grown
and locally raised agricultural products
– “optional geographic preference”
– 7 CFR Parts 210, 215, 220, 225, and 226
– RIN 0584ﾐAE03
Owatonna School Garden Project:
Growing a Healthy Community:
Our Living, Learning Laboratory
Where are the gardens?
• 4 (of 4) Elementary
schools
• Junior High School
• Assistance from High
School Ag Class
• Compost bins and
garden sheds are a
project for the High
School Tech Class
Gardening Activities are
embedded in science curriculum
• 16 feet by 40 feet
raised beds
• Organic gardening
principles
• Each school site
(with student
involvement) will
determine what they
will grow
State Science Standards
o Kindergarten: living organisms/basic organisms
o 1st grade: life cycle (seed to plant to fruit)
o 2nd grade: botany /history and nature of science standard
o 3rd grade: plant identification/life cycle
o 4th grade: water cycle/engineering
o 5th grade: renewable energy & material (composting)/ life
science/ interactions among science, technology, engineering,
mathematics, and society standard (sustainable agriculture)
o 7th & 8th grades: Life Science – botany unit/human body/
human diseases/ environmental studies/engineering
9-12th: plant systems/environmental systems/agribusiness/engineering
May - August 2010.....
• 1/2 the children involved in the garden were unable to
identify a vegetable
• When tending the garden in May & early June, the
strawberry patch was a favorite spot
• August: neighborhood teenage boys harvested
ingredients to make salsa at home
• Throughout the season, all students involved in gardening
tasted the produce.
Funding was made possible through funding from the Statewide
Health Improvement Program (SHIP) of the Minnesota
Department of Health.
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Alternative ‘finger foods’
Schools are working on
improvements....
• 95% offer more whole
grains
• 90% have more fresh
fruit/vegetables
• 69% reduced sodium
• 66% reduce or limit
added sugars
• 51% increased
vegetable options
Dietary studies reflect......
• 70% of foods
children consumed
over a 24 hour
period, considered
for “occasional
consumption”
100%
80%
60%
{70%}
40%
20%
0%
fruit/veg
fats
grains
sweets
protein