Last month, Ricardo Kairios, FCHS Educator/Assistant Professor, taught a food safety and healthy food pantry cooking demonstration for families at the HomeFront Family Campus in Ewing. During this lesson, Ricardo worked with participants to cook three healthy recipes highlighting the latest produce provided at the HomeFront food pantry locations. Produce featured in this month’s pantry […]
During March, Ricardo Kairios, FCHS Educator/Assistant Professor, collaborated with the Lawrence Township Senior Center to provide a Saving Money While Shopping and Healthy Eating series. Each lesson featured a recipe incorporating the five food groups from the USDA’s MyPlate and highlighted the various ways to include colorful fruits and vegetables in your meals and snacks. […]
During the months of February and March, Mercer County 4-H has been hosting a series of Coding classes for youth after school. The teens meet after school once a week to explore the intersection of STEM and ethics following the 4-H curriculum developed by the University of California Extension. The series has already covered topics […]
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention estimates 48 million individuals get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized and 3,000 die from foodborne diseases each year in the United States. Outbreaks are regularly associated with fresh fruits and vegetables, and farmers need to implement risk prevention strategies to grow quality produce. New Jersey farms growing vegetables had […]
Spring is on its way, according to the daffodils in bloom on the side of our building and the garlic starting to sprout up in front! Our annual garden symposium on March 16th sold out, and we received lots of positive feedback about our lineup of speakers. We also had our first garden visit at the two locations of the Boys […]
