Stories

ASAP works with a number of Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) programs in the region to highlight local food education for their clients. Lori Bradley at Henderson County WIC explains how her staff demonstrates farm to early childhood education in action. 

As part of our Growing Minds @ University project, the Growing Minds team is a preceptor to Dietetic Interns during their community rotation. This fall  Maddie from Lenoir-Rhyne University worked with us to provide local food and farm to school activities to our community. As part of her time with us she compiled some of her favorite fall recipes using local produce. 

As part of our farm to school work in Burke County, Emily Towery, a kindergarten teacher at Hillcrest Elementary, shares this story about the day Freedom High Ag students came to work in the Hillcrest school garden with the kindergarten students:

We are thrilled to announce that our own Emily Jackson, ASAP’s Growing Minds Farm to School Program Director, is one of 40 selected applicants as a Culture of Health Leader, a program co-led by the National Collaborative for Health Equity and CommonHealth ACTION with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

Read about how ASAP’s Growing Minds Dietetic Intern, Katti Carroll, is getting students in Burke County excited about local fruits and vegetables!