CPHP 2021 Monthly Vegetable Garden and Food Literacy Education Series Trailer

This is the trailer for the upcoming Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion (CPHP)* podcast series for 2021 for home vegetable gardeners that will also cover an array of topics related to food literacy. The series will be co-hosted by Orrin Williams, Food Systems Coordinator and soil scientist Dr. Akilah Martin. 

The primary objective of the series is to expand the number of home-based backyard gardeners. The focus of the vegetable gardening episodes will be how to use fabric grow bags as the preferred medium for gardening but we will also cover raised bed gardening as well as for those interested,  in ground gardening . 

With the in ground gardeners we will discourage them doing so unless they have embarked upon a complete testing regimen and using those test results to determine how to proceed safely. 

In Chicago and many places throughout the Rust Belt of old industrial and manufacturing cities the soils are often contaminated. Also, typically soils in cities like Chicago,  are of poor quality as well and will require a lot of work to build them up and make them suitable for growing fruits and vegetables.

The food literacy portions of the monthly episodes will cover topics such as consumer education, food safety, preservation and preparation as well as nutrition education and  basic cooking classes and demonstrations.

*CPHP is a program out of the Office of Community Engagement and Neighborhood Health Partnership (OCEAN-HP) at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC).

OCEAN-HP - https://oceanhp.uic.edu/
CPHP - https://oceanhp.uic.edu/programs/community-health/chicago-partnership-for-health-promotion/