Initiative
Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health (FRESH)
Background
The Food Resource Equity and Sustainability for Health (FRESH) project began in 2016 and is in partnership with Osage Nation. This five-year project supports the vision of the Osage Nation to work towards its self-determined food sovereignty goals.
Details
This intervention included installing edible garden plots at tribal elementary schools, adopting farm-to-school menus, and implementing a preschool healthy eating and gardening curriculum and healthy eating and food sovereignty parent curriculum.
As the only evaluation of a multi-component, multi-level gardening intervention with Native American families, this study contributes much-needed evidence on the efficacy of gardens in improving the food environment and health of rural Indigenous families.
Funding Information
Sponsor: National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities
Grant Number: R01MD011266
Principal Investigator: Dr. Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, DrPH, MPH
