1. Improving Availability of Mechanisms for Purchasing Food
From Farms in Communities By: Evan Fritz, Jamie Keil, and Anna
Bohanon
2. Overview & Summary Overview of the Problem Healthy
Eating Nutrition Obesity Proposed Solution and Plan Farm to School
Program Producer Relations School Community Gardens
3. Background & Need Statement of Need Wisconsin Study
Illinois Study Nicholson Study 2013 Further Research Additional
Funding Research Reports Grant Projects
4. Title and Specification of Topic Target Population Youth in
Schools K-6th Grade Behavior Targeted Healthy Eating Nutrition
Education Setting Targeted Elementary Schools United Community
School Middle Schools Ames Middle School
5. Socioecological Model
6. Overall Concept Childhood Obesity Increase fruits and
vegetable consumption Decrease convenient fatty foods Locally grown
foods with less preservatives
7. Logic Model
8. Research Design Longitudinal Design Pre-implementation
evaluation Post-implementation evaluation
10. Analyses To conceptually evaluate the program: 1. Take
readings of how many servings of fruits and vegetables students are
consuming before the garden was made available to the school 2.
Take readings of how many servings are consumed by students after
the garden is made available Readings will be taken through
anonymous surveys showing the rate of fruit and vegetable
consumption Program will be evaluated and recorded each year
Evaluation will carry out for span of five years to see the change
in students fruit and vegetable consumption.
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