food insecurity – Healthy Food Choices in Schools

February 18, 2021February 18, 2021

Local Partnerships Address Food Insecurity

Every fall, from the beginning of October through the Thanksgiving holiday, Extension offices across the Florida Panhandle and Big Bend region ask the community to help them collect unopened jars of peanut butter in the annual Peanut Butter Challenge. In …

June 12, 2019June 13, 2019

Backpack Giving for Healthier Living

Backpack & apple

In the United States, hunger and food insecurity continue to be a persistent problem – 41.2 million people lived in food-insecure households in 2016, 6.5 million of which were children. Defined as the limited or uncertain availability of nutritionally adequate …