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Summer flew by and I’ve just completed my final week of work. I spent my week tying up loose ends and making sure I saw all my projects to completion. For my educator spotlight ...
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I started this week by attending a FMNP program training that was targeted towards nutrition educators like myself. The training covered everything on the Farmers Market Nutrition Program, including what it was, who is ...
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This week I only had one market, which was Trumansburg, so I dedicated more time to my educator interview project and designing a couple “Produce Spotlight” posters. Trumansburg market was just as lively as ...
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This week was busy with new markets and recipes. I spent the beginning of this week working on the CCE Educator Spotlight Series, cleaning up the transcripts I had made from the interviews and ...
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After conducting the Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) Educator Spotlight interviews, I was left with a lot of content to comb through and had to decide what I wanted to highlight on the educator page. ...
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I started off this week by interviewing another FMNP educator, Mo Tidball, who I had worked with at the Ovid farmers market a couple of weeks prior. Mo has been providing FMNP education for ...
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Some people say, “Experience is the best teacher,” and while I agree to a certain extent, I know that there are a lot of lessons and wisdom that can be obtained through the prior ...
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This week was dedicated to meeting and observing some talented CCE educators who do great work. On Tuesday, I went to the Lima Farmers Market in Lima, NY where I met and shadowed Lucille ...
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Learning and understanding the fundamentals to any undertaking is essential. It sets the solid foundation from which everything else is built upon and establishes a framework that explains the “why” to every decision and ...
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