Wednesday, May 27 2009 @ 08:27 PM MST
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The Chapman Garden Exchange project, part of
Monday, May 18 2009 @ 07:42 PM MST
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Greetings,
Monday, May 11 2009 @ 06:04 PM MST
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We are pleased to announce that our Community Garden Exchange project
Friday, May 08 2009 @ 04:48 PM MST
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Carol Polland, graduating nurse from California State University School of Nursing (BSN Program), talkes about her volunteer work at the cChaos public health forums and farmers markets. She has been giving free blood pressure readings at our weekly events in both Oroville 's Southside Neighborhood and Chico's Chapmantown neighborhood. Both areas are low income and ethnically diverse. Today is her last volunteer day before she graduates. She talks a little about her experience here. Ashley McGuire was another student from the group who attended several of the events taking blood pressure. And on the last day Steven Robinson manned the table.
Nursing students Carol Pollard & Ashley McGuire from California State University, Chico and Opt for Fit Kids are working together to promote health awareness within the community. Free blood pressure readings along with basic health information and tips on prevention and treatment of hypertension (High Blood Pressure) are available. Times are 
Our mission is to facilitate, improve and maintain healthy lifestyles by increasing access to fresh fruits, vegetables, seeds and nuts, and opportunities for physical activities and using the consumer safe food shopping environments created by certified farmers markets to develop grassroots community leadership to maximize human health.
We work collaboratively with schools & community service organizations to do outreach, research, raise funds, and deliver health services (including WIC and Food Stamp EBT of Certified Farmers Markets) by providing for their public health service integration into the consumer-safe food delivery environments created by farm&garden to table food and information exchange forums such as farmers markets.
