On Thursday, the highlight of the class for me was watching the video on a farmers' market intervention for people living in a city in South Carolina. This was interesting for me because my program for the agency assignment is the WIC and Senior Farmers' Market Nutrition Program. It was great to see people in the community working alongside health professionals to organize a program that provided local, fresh produce to people in the community. I thought it was genius to locate the market next to the clinic, and that people visiting the clinic received vouchers for free produce--it couldn't be made more convenient for people to get high quality produce!
Some of the footage they showed in the video led me to believe that business wasn't always booming, which made me think that there is still room for improvement in this program. Perhaps they will move to the next stage of the policy cycle and evaluate what they can do with the farmers' market program in their city to get more people to attend?
good job on the blogs this week. I enjoyed reading them.
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