Programs aim to get rural North Dakotans moving, eating healthier
Youth campers make tortillas and pizza dough from scratch at a North Dakota 4H Camp last year in Washburn. Camp participants also took part in a Healthy Camp Challenge where all children received pedometers to track their daily step total while in camp. Photo provided by NDSU Extension.
Raised beds ready for planting at the Towner Community Garden. If selected for a grant as part of the Rural Health Transformation Program, the garden could double the number of beds and other improvements. Photo provided by Gina McKee.
Participants gather water for a 4H group working at a community garden in Williston last year. As part of North Dakota’s program for using federal Rural Health Transformation Program funding, community gardens like this could see expansions and improvements. Photo provided by NDSU.
Programs aim to get rural North Dakotans moving, eating healthier
Federal grants set to flow to community gardens, activity programs
By Michael Standaert, North Dakota News Cooperative Chronic disease and metabolic dysfunction affect large numbers of North Dakotans.
Several new programs coming soon to rural areas aim to reverse that by getting people moving and making healthy, whole foods more accessible.
“What I want people to know is that moving is the most impor…
