The USU Extension Office is excited to be hosting a summer full of activities for their Create Better Health Program. Ambassador and Healthy Living Educator, Heather Cloward stopped by Castle Country Radio to talk about their June activities.
“Right on June 2, I’m actually starting a Yoga in the Park for kids, that’s going to go three times for the month of June. Then we are going to go over to Captain Create in the Park as well. So what that is, it’s like this little character who helps kids learn how to eat healthy, and teaches them the USDA recommendations for My Plate and stuff like that. Plus, we do physical activities and we make healthy snacks, a lot of normal everyday fundamentals,” explained Cloward. The dates that Yoga in the Park for Kids will be offered is June 2, June 16 and June 30. Captain Create in the Park will be offered June 3 and July 8. There will be a Yoga in the Park for Teens and Adults on June 8, June 15 and June 29. All events will begin at 1:00 pm at Washington Park in Price.
The only event that will be held at the USU Extension Office Classroom is the Think Inside the Box event which will be held on June 14 for teens at 3:00 pm and on June 30 for adults at 6:00 pm. “What I want to do is I want to try a lesson of cooking out of a microwave really. So if you think about it kids or teenagers or even college students you know they have to come up with creative ideas to come up with healthy meals. They don’t have a lot of access to cooking or maybe they just don’t want to or they just don’t know how to cook. So I want to come up with some healthy, creative, meals that they can cook easily right out of a box,” stated Cloward. This will be based off the Create Better Health curriculum and following the USDA recommendations.
“All of my classes, everything that I do, I offer for free for the community. Create Better Health what we are is the nutritional education component of SNAP-Ed which is better known as food stamps. So we provide services for the lower income families, however, we are open to everybody,” said Cloward. Other resources that the program offers are budgeting, meal planning, tips on staying physically fit and that’s just naming a few of their services they provide. If you would like to learn more about the Create Better Health Program visit their Facebook page.
The program is also currently seeking donations for a community garden. “So seeds, just anything that anybody might want to be willing to donate. It’s going to be a completely different spin, not a community garden that you have ever seen before. So it’s going to have components of some things the kids are going to do from our local community. It’s going to have nutritional education right there on the garden site. It’s going to have recipes and all different kinds of fun stuff. That’s going to be at the Trinity Food Pantry,” explained Cloward. Anyone who wishes to make a donation towards the community garden project can take their donations to the USU Extension Office at 751 East 100 North in Price.
To register for any of the Create Better Health events visit Eventbite.com or you can contact Cloward at (435) 636-3236 or by email at heather.cloward@usu.edu