Unique In-school Garden and Nutrition Intervention Improves Vegetable Preference and Food Literacy in Two Independently Conducted Evaluations (P16-040-19)

摘要

ObjectivesIn 2016, Big Green (BG), a youth wellness and school garden organization, and Common Threads (CT), a health and wellness nutrition education organization, co-created Garden Bites (GB), a garden-based nutrition and health curriculum for PreK-8th students.GB is a fifteen lesson, school-based program featuring nutrition education, hands-on snack preparation, and outdoor garden activities. In 2018, CT evaluated GB independently from BG who supplemented the program with additional gardening activities (EGI). The purpose of the evaluation was to assess Big Green and Common Threads’ shared organizational impact areas: increasing knowledge and preference for fruits and vegetables and food literacy (nutritional skills and knowledge).