Progress 09/01/10 to 08/31/15
Outputs
Target Audience:The focus area of the project is Native American families with children residing within the boundaries of Rolette County. The project will specifically work with 40 families (10 each year) on gardening, nutrition education and food preservation with an opportunity for additional families to benefit through outreach to Head Start children and their families. The major program area focus will be on Nutrition conveyed through planting gardens, harvesting produce, preparing healthy food from the garden and preservation techniques. This project addresses the national critical need area of Nutrition and preventing childhood obesity. The specific program area of impact is Family and Consumer Science. Turtle Mountain youth are at high risk for childhood obesity and diabetes caused in part by poor diet. At least some of the dietary choices are caused by lack of financial resources which limit family access to healthier vegetables and fruit and lead to a diet high in lower cost starch items. The project will speak to these needs by working with families to encourage increased gardening (which provides a sub benefit of exercise) as well as the health benefits of garden produce and increasing the year around quality of diet by properly preserving garden produce. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?This program has offered many workshops throughout the project: Basic Home Gardening Workshop I & II, Seed and Plant Distribution, Pressure Canning, Pickled Beets, Salsa & Tomato Canning, Intro to Native American Gardening,Jam & Jelly Workshop, Freezing Workshop, Syrup Workshop, Pumpkin Pie Workshop,Benefits of Gardening Seminar, Pickle Workshop and the Turtle Mountain Youth Leadership program. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?All information regarding project activities has been disseminated to the surrounding communities through social media sites such as facebook, the Turtle Mountain Community College website, local newspapers, newletters and flyers. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Objective 1: To provide educational opportunities through the TMCC Anishinabe Learning,Cultural & Wellness Center to at least 40 families (10 each year) in gardening basics, Native American gardening, food safety, nutrition, food preservation, and weed and pest control to develop family gardens and improve their health choices while creating sustainable food. (This will be measured by participation sign-up sheets, photos, and a survey following the educational activities.) Objective 2: To provide at least 40 families (10 per year) with assistance in establishing and tending a home garden. (This will be measured by application forms for assistance, photos, sign up sheets, and surveys.) Objective 3: To provide 80 Head Start children and their families (20 per year) targeted educational services (child focused, parent focused and family focused) related to healthy eating and pre-gardening. (This will be measured by participation in activities including families who become involved in the gardening areas as well as pre and post surveys of participants to assess gains in knowledge.) Objective 4: To prepare culturally relevant community education materials including 12 brochures (3 each year) and monthly e-newsletters. (This will be measured by the number of materials produced and surveys of participants to assess quality and usability.)
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Progress 09/01/13 to 08/31/14
Outputs
Target Audience:The focus area of the project is Native American families with children residing within the boundaries of Rolette County. The project will specifically work with 40 families (10 each year) on gardening, nutrition education and food preservation with an opportunity for additional families to benefit through outreach to Head Start children and their families. The major program area focus will be on Nutrition conveyed through planting gardens, harvesting produce, preparing healthy food from the garden and preservation techniques. This project addresses the national critical need area of Nutrition and preventing childhood obesity. The specific program area of impact is Family and Consumer Science. Turtle Mountain youth are at high risk for childhood obesity and diabetes caused in part by poor diet. At least some of the dietary choices are caused by lack of financial resources which limit family access to healthier vegetables and fruit and lead to a diet high in lower cost starch items. The project will speak to these needs by working with families to encourage increased gardening (which provides a sub benefit of exercise) as well as the health benefits of garden produce and increasing the year around quality of diet by properly preserving garden produce. Changes/Problems:Because our grant cyle ends before the harvest season is over, the poject must extend past the closing date. Therefore, the project must request a no-cost extension of time to complete all goals and objectives. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?This program has offered many workshops throughout the year: Basic Home Gardening Workshop I & II, Seed and Plant Distribution, Jam & Jelly Workshop, Benefits of Gardening Seminar,PickleWorkshop and the Turtle Mountain Youth Leadership program. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?All information regarding project activities has been disseminated to the surrounding communities through social media sites such as facebook, the Turtle Mountain Community College website, local newspapers, newletters and flyers. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
Thisprogram has offered many workshops and events that have been on-going for the past several years. Some of those events are as follows: Intro to Basic Home Gardening Workshop I & II, Free Seed and Plant Distribution, Jam & Jelly Workshop, Food Preservation-Freezing Workshop, Syrup Making Workshop, Pickled Beets Workshop, Salsa Workshop, Pumpkin Pie Workshop, Garden Pinwheel Activity, Mother's Day Planting Activity, Youth Leadership Activities,Annual Conservation Day, Annual EcoEd Day,etc. This year the Anishinabe staff tilled 119gardens in the Belcourt and surrounding areas. The program held a recruitment meeting at the local Headstart for parents interested in the gardening program. Thirty-two Headstart families were recruited. Those families were provided with free tilling of garden, seeds and seedlings, as well as various opportunities to learn about food preservation, food safety, gardening, weed and pest control, and harvesting. The program provides 330 students and their families with a monthly newsletter focused on health, wellness, gardening and food preparation. The program also provides Headstart students (330) with materials for their annual Mother's Day plant event, a garden pinwheel activity to put in their gardens at home and nutritional information brochures, activity books, crayons, snack food slides, etc. This year the program developed three brochures: Nutition, Excercise in the Garden, & Water Bath Canning: Syrup.These were made available at the Anishinabe Center and at the workshops.
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Progress 09/01/12 to 08/31/13
Outputs
Target Audience: The focus area of the project is Native American families with children residing within the boundaries of Rolette County. The project will specifically work with 40 families (10 each year) on gardening, nutrition education and food preservation with an opportunity for additional families to benefit through outreach to Head Start children and their families. The major program area focus will be on Nutrition conveyed through planting gardens, harvesting produce, preparing healthy food from the garden and preservation techniques. This project addresses the national critical need area of Nutrition and preventing childhood obesity. The specific program area of impact is Family and Consumer Science. Turtle Mountain youth are at high risk for childhood obesity and diabetes caused in part by poor diet. At least some of the dietary choices are caused by lack of financial resources which limit family access to healthier vegetables and fruit and lead to a diet high in lower cost starch items. The project will speak to these needs by working with families to encourage increased gardening (which provides a sub-benefit of exercise) as well as the health benefits of garden produce and increasing the year around quality of diet by properly preserving garden produce. Changes/Problems:
Nothing Reported
What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? This program has offered many workshops throughout the year: Basic Home Gardening Workshop I & II, Seed and Plant Distribution, Jam & Jelly Workshop, Food Preservation: Freezing Workshop, Syrup Workshop, Pickeled Beets Workshop, Salsa and Tomato Canning Workshop and Pumpkin Pie Making Workshop. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The program has offered many workshops and events that have been on-going for the past serveral years. Some of those events are as follows: Intro to Basic Home Gardening Workshop I & II, Free Seed and Plant Distribution, Jam & Jelly Workshop, Food Preservation-FreezingWorkshop, Syrup Making Workshop, Pickled Beets Workshop, Salsa Workshop, Pumpking Pie Workshop, Garden Pinwheel Activity, Mother's Day Planting Activity, Youth Leadership Activities, 4th Annual Conservation Day, etc. This year the Anishinabe staff tilled 32 gardens in the Belcourt and surrounding area. The program held a recruitment meeting at the local Headstart for parents interested in the gardening program. Those families who decided to join the the program were provided with free tilling of garden, seeds and seedlings, as well as various opportunities to learn about food preservation, food safety, gardening, weed and pest control, and harvesting. The program provides 330 students and their families with a monthly newsletter focused on health, wellness, gardening and food preparation. The program also provides Headstart students with materials for their annual Mother's Day plant event, a garden pinwheel activity to put in their gardens at home and nutritional information brochures, activity books, crayons, snack food slides, etc. This year the program developed three brochures: Food Preservation-Freezing, Water Bath Canning-Pickles, Water Bath Canning-Tomatoes and Salsa. These were made available at the Anishinabe Center and at the workshops.
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Progress 09/01/11 to 08/31/12
Outputs
Target Audience: The focus area of the project is Native American families with children residing within the boundaries of Rolette County. The project will specifically work with 10 families on gardening, nutrition education and food preservation with an opportunity for additional families to benefit through outreach to Head Start children and their families. The major program area focus will be on Nutrition conveyed through planting gardens, harvesting produce, preparing healthy food from the garden and preservation techniques. This project addresses the national critical need area of Nutrition and preventing childhood obesity. The specific program area of impact is Family and Consumer Science. Turtle Mountain youth are at high risk for childhood obesity and diabetes caused in part by poor diet. At least some of the dietary choices are caused by lack of financial resources which limit family access to healthier vegetables and fruit and lead to a diet high in lower cost starch items. The project will speak to these needs by working with families to encourage increased gardening (which provides a sub-benefit of exercise) as well as the health benefits of garden produce and increasing the year around quality of diet by properly preserving garden produce. Changes/Problems: One of the challenges has been marketing the events,workshops and opportunities offered by this program. Although the response is growing each year, there are many people who are not aware of these events. This spring an administrative assistant began working at the Anishinabe Center. She developed a Facebook page for the Center. There have been many comments from the communities served by the Center and it seems this method is the best way to advertise the opportunities available at Anishinabe Center. You can access pictures of the events sponsored by the Land Grant Department at TMCC on the Facebook site for the Center. What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided? Many workshops have been offered through this program: Pressure Canning, Pickled Beets, Salsa, Basic Home Gardening I & II, Youth Leadership, Benefits of Gardening Seminar, Medicine Walk, Jam & Jelly, Intro to Native American Gardening, etc. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?
Nothing Reported
What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?
Nothing Reported
Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals?
The program has offered many workshops and events that have been on-going for the past several years. Some of those events are as follows: Pressure Canning & Pickled Beets worshop, Salsa Canning workshop, booth display at the IHS Human Services 4th Annual Mental Health Conference, Basic Home Gardening workshop I & II, Seed and Plant Distribution, Intro to Native American Gardening Class, Youth Leadership activities, 3rd Annual Conservation Day, National Youth Sports Program Higher Education Day, Benefits of Gardening Seminar, Medicine Walk, Anishinabe Gardening presentation at the Turtle Mountain Community Wellness Conference, TribalColleges/NDSU Horticulture Tour, Jam & Jelly Canning workshop, etc. This year the Anishinabe staff tilled 118 gardens in the Belcourt and surrounding area. The program held a recruitment meeting at the local Headstart for parents interested in the gardening program. Those families who decided to join the program were provided with free tilling of garden, seeds and seedlings, as well as various opportunities to learn about food preservation, food safety, gardening, weed and pest control, and harvesting. The program provides 330 students and their families with a monthly newsletter focused on health, wellness, gardening and food preparation. The program also provides the Headstart students with materials for their annual Mother's Day plant event, a garden pinwheel activity to put in their gardens at home and nutritional information brochures, activity books, crayons, snack food slides, etc. This year the program developed three brochures: Pressure Canning, Water Bath Canning, Sqare Foot Gardening.
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Progress 09/01/10 to 08/31/11
Outputs
OUTPUTS: Over the past several years, TMCC through the Anishinabe Center has provided support to families on the Turtle Mountain Reservation to address health problems associated with diet and exercise and educate families for greater self-sufficiency in the area of food security through gardening. This project has the same focus; however, there is a narrower focus on the education of younger families with children enrolled in Headstart regarding healthy food choices and a healthy lifestyle. This concerted effort hopes to see the internalization of these concepts in the target group. Objective 1: to provide educational opportunities through the TMCC Anishinabe Learning, Cultural & Wellness Center to at least 40 families (10 each year) in gardening basics, Native American gardening, food safety, nutrition, food preservation, and weed and pest control to develop family gardens and improve their health choices while creating sustainable food. Sign-in sheets and evaluations of the workshops were recorded. Of the 35 families attending these workshops, all had young children, and often included grandparents, aunts, and uncles. This mix of generations reflects strong tradition of the extended family and the importance of including all age groups in the family circle. This objective has been met this year through the above mentioned workshops, newsletters and printed materials. Objective 2: to provide at least 40 families (10 per year) with assistance in establishing and tending a home garden. In March, 2011, The Project Director contacted the Headstart program to recruit families interested in the gardening program. As a result, twenty (20) Headstart families filled out applications for the program. All of the families who applied for the program had tilling completed in order to establish gardens. Objective 3: to provide 80 Headstart children and their families (20) per year targeted educational services (child-focused, parent-focused and family-focused) related to healthy eating and pre-gardening activities. Monthly newsletters were sent home with all the students. Three(3) other activities took place for the Headstart families prior to and during the gardening season including: 1) Mother's Day activity which provided all Headstart students with flower pots with coloring insert, soil and seeds. 2) Garden Pinwheel Activity provided students with a pinwheel craft kit to complete and put in their garden, grandparents garden or flowerbed. 3) Nutritional Information Goody Bags which included a variety of activities and printed materials including brochures, activity books, crayons, Snack Food slide, etc. Objective 4: to prepared culturally relevant community education materials including 12 brochures (3 each year) and monthly e-newsletters. A monthly e-newsletter/newsletter was established and three brochures were developed on topics such as food safety, square foot gardening and container gardening. This newsletter was distributed to all Headstart children and their families. The e-newsletter was also sent through e-mail and placed on the college's website. PARTICIPANTS: In order to accomplish the above objectives, 10 students were hired to work with the various activities throughout the summer. This included basic hands-on gardening in the student garden at Anishinabe (10 students), Conservation Day Camp (150 youth), Youth Leadership Project (10 students), TMCC Academic Readiness Summer Camp (35 students), and "Talking Circles". There are several programs and funding streams at Anishinabe Learning, Cultural and Wellness Center. These various programs and projects assist in supporting each other in order to offer the programs needed by the community. Further, support from other county and state agencies assist in providing additional resources. An example of one of these partnerships is one with North Dakota State University (NDSU) which provides expertise in the areas of soil science, natural resource management and other related subjects. Although these activities are not funded by this project they are made available to the participants of this project to lend more depth to the subject of gardening, nutrition and family health and wellness. Many of the participants from this project have also attended other workshops at the Center. This makes the Center an excellent location for not only reaching but exceeding the objectives of this project. TARGET AUDIENCES: The focus area of the project is Native American families with children residing within the boundaries of Rolette County. The project will specifically work with 10 families in year two on gardening, nutrition education and food preservation with an opportunity for additional families to benefit through outreach to Head Start children and their families. PROJECT MODIFICATIONS: Not relevant to this project.
Impacts
Over 35 families, this year alone, attended workshops in Gardening Basics, Native American Gardening, food preservation, food safety and weed and pest control. In addition to the participation of the Headstart families, over 70 other families applied for services to have tilling done and assistance in establishing gardens. Seeds and seedlings were distributed during the month of May although with the very prolific seasonal rains, most gardens were not planted until the middle of June. Several gardens had crop failures due to rotting of seeds in the ground due to excessive rain. Although this gardening year did not have a good beginning, families continued to show support for gardening by attending several garden-related workshops, including two sessions of "Intro to Basic Home Gardening", "Intro to Native American Gardening", "Raised Bed Container Gardening", "Traditional Stories about Plants", and a "Traditional Plant Walk". In prior years, a student garden was planted. This year was no exception; however, raised beds were used due to the extremely wet season. This student garden served as a demonstration site for the participants of the project. After speaking with NDSU Rolette County Extension Agent Karen Armstrong, it has become apparent that gardening on the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation has become popular with the locals. According to Armstrong she has noticed that within the last five years more and more students (greater than 50%) in the local schools are reporting having a garden at their homes and eating more fresh vegetables. These students are also active participants in their gardens and have reported family members preserving garden produce for later use. The popularity of the garden program has become so great that we are getting more applications than we can serve. Annually the program is able to till approximately 100-130 gardens per year depending on the weather conditions however, we recieve close to 150-160 applications for assitance each year. With only one tractor and trailer, we are unable to provide more service to our area. As more community members become aware of our services we get more interest and requests.
Publications
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