Healthy Kids Healthy Communities

Last week, a press conference was held at the farm to announce that the Health Department of Knoxville is a recipient of the Healthy Kids Healthy Communities Robert Woods Johnson Foundation grant. At the press conference, Mayor Ragsdale, Stephanie Welch, and Mark Jones spoke about the plan of action for decreasing childhood obesity. With the $360,000, the Heath Department plans to fight childhood obesity in the neighborhoods of Lonsdale, Inskip and Mascot. The approach is to create better access to healthy food and to create safer environments where children can play. Currently in Knox County, four out of every ten children are obese.

Stephanie Welch cited our farm as the kind of work that she’d like to see spread throughout Knoxville. We are so proud to be the leading example to our community, and we hope that with our work and with this new grant initiative Knoxville will be a healthier community.

We played in the snow, too!

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