Morris Healthy Eating What if... ...the rates of obesity and nutrition-related diseases were dropping instead of escalating? ...a colorful, delicious array of fruits and vegetables were easily accessible every day? ...nutrient-dense foods were as affordable
Get Involved! • Join the Student Organic Gardening Club to plan, plant, care for, and harvest the campus gardens.
as high-calorie, highly processed foods? ...the healthy choice were the easy choice?
• Join Foodlumms to learn more about our food system and to work toward more local, fair, ecologically sound, and humane food for everyone. • Volunteer to help tend and harvest the Native American Garden.
Morris Healthy Eating is working to make fresh fruits and vegetables and other healthy foods more available and accessible on the University of Minnesota, Morris campus, in Morris, and in Stevens County.
• Sign up for healthy cooking classes in the MORRIS COOKS! series starting September 12.
Established in 2009, the initiative links leaders from our food, healthcare, and educational systems with partnering organizations, agencies, and businesses to make the healthy choice the easy choice in our community.
• Take part in the Local Foods Farmers Market and Feast on campus September 24. • Attend the Native American Traditional Foods Community Meal September 30. • Find Morris Healthy Eating on Facebook, and stay in touch!
Morris Area Farmers Market Mondays and Thursdays 3 p.m.– 6 p.m. through September
Visit morris.umn.edu/healthyeating or call 320-589-6075 for more information.
East Side Park, E. 7th St and Colorado Ave, Morris www.morrisareafarmersmarket.com
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