{"id":471,"date":"2021-08-04T14:24:38","date_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:24:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/?p=471"},"modified":"2021-08-04T14:24:38","modified_gmt":"2021-08-04T21:24:38","slug":"learning-the-local-food-system-in-klamath-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/2021\/08\/04\/learning-the-local-food-system-in-klamath-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning the local food system in Klamath County"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hi all! <\/span>I\u2019m Brady Monteith, reaching out from sunny Klamath Falls. I\u2019m on a bit of a different schedule down here at the OSU Extension office in Klamath County, and I\u2019m quickly approaching the end of my time here before I pack up and head down to Arizona. It\u2019s been an eventful 12 weeks, and I\u2019m so grateful for all the learning opportunities I\u2019ve had.<\/p>\n

My main project this summer has been Double Up Food Bucks at our local farmer\u2019s market. We worked with the market coordinator and our local vendors to create programs that encourage more people to use their SNAP-Ed benefits for local produce. Each week, we had a different \u201cFeatured Food\u201d that we tried to line up with what was in season. At our booth we would have various Extension Food Hero resources such as recipes and informational handouts about our Featured Food. We put together a market tour, which was essentially a short scavenger hunt with some sample questions that encouraged shoppers to explore the market and communicate with local growers. We also collected information and put together profiles on our local vendors, still with the hope that we can help shoppers get to know the people who grow their food.<\/p>\n

Another project I\u2019ve been working on is the delivery of the Cooking Matters class, both in-person and virtually. The last three weeks I\u2019ve been helping Paolina Mulleneix, Extension\u2019s Farm to School outreach program coordinator in Klamath County, deliver the Cooking Matters for Families class virtually. We\u2019ve had about five families join in Zoom each week and we all cook a meal together. Just this last week, we taught the Cooking Matters For Teens class in-person out in Chiloquin. On the first day of class only two kids showed up, but the last day we had seven. We spent an hour with the kids each day, talking to them about how to eat healthy and be safe in the kitchen. By the end of each day the kids went home with a delicious meal they had prepared themselves.<\/p>\n

This internship has been incredibly insightful and has allowed me to see nearly every aspect of our local food system. Over the last couple weeks, I\u2019ve been meeting with people who play a part in our food system, from growers to policy writers.\u00a0 The experiences I\u2019ve had have been so valuable, and I can\u2019t wait to see how I will be able to apply them in my future studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi all! I\u2019m Brady Monteith, reaching out from sunny Klamath Falls. I\u2019m on a bit of a different schedule down here at the OSU Extension office in Klamath County, and I\u2019m quickly approaching the end of my time here before I pack up and head down to Arizona. It\u2019s been an eventful 12 weeks, and… Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11435,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,88,21,69],"tags":[89,99,90,24],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-family-and-community-health","category-klamath-county","category-snap-ed","category-southern-oregon","tag-brady-monteith","tag-food-hero","tag-klamath-county","tag-snap-ed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11435"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":477,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/extintern\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}