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Helping Minnesotans make healthy choices
Individuals, families, schools, and communities benefit from making smart food choices, promoting active lifestyles, and building environments that support healthy habits. Our programs and resources include hands-on nutrition education classes, promotion of healthy school environments, and continuing education for community professionals. More
What We Do
Simply Good Eating
Classes that help people make healthy food choices while stretching food dollars and be more active.
Cooking Matters® Minnesota
Hands-on, cooking-based nutrition education programs that help low-income families prepare healthy meals.
Minnesota Food and Nutrition Network
Collaboration between agencies focused on nutrition and physical activity programs for low-income Minnesotans.
Hear about us from the ECHO program?
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Farm to School
Connecting schools with local food producers and resources to benefit youth, farmers, and communities.
School Foodservice Training and Resources
Practical trainings and tools from the Great Trays™ Partnership and more.
Features
Nutrition programs recognized
Extension is among the state's top three leaders in building access to healthy foods. More
Food Access Summit
Registration is now open for the Food Access Summit 2013, Aug. 13-15th in Duluth, MN!
Save food this summer
School out and kids at home? We've got 3 ways for you to shrink your grocery bill. More
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