Since discovering the Food Institute website I have spent considerable time reading through the offerings and found the following to share:

Food Institute Food as Medicine Conundrum

https://foodinstitute.com/focus/the-food-as-medicine-conundrum/

No surprise here but the Food Institute shares insight about the causes of the global Type-2 Diabetes pandemic.

The Food Institute research found that food as medicine initiatives do improve health and save household consumer dollars. The conundrum is related to the impact of food insecurity.

Find the True Cost of Food: Food as Medicine Case Study report here.

There are three new books on our bookshelf:

Grow Big In Small Spaces: The Urban Gardeners Guide to Container Gardening & Home Canning by Luke Potter.

The Pollinator Victory Garden: Win the War on Pollinator Decline by Kim Eierman

Forager’s Garden by Anna Locke

My fellow gardeners are anxious to get going so you may want to do the following in February. Videos produced by Chicago Gardener on garden tasks and planting schedule for February. The Chicago Gardener channel has videos specific to Chicago.

Also see:

MIGardener

The Gardening Channel is located in USDA Zone 7 but the information is still valuable I would wait about 3 weeks or so to adjust to our zone 6 requirements. Check out the information you should know before buying seeds.

I am excited to let you know that the March episode will include a session my co-host and co-producer soil enthusiast and scientist Dr. Akilah Martin and I did last year currently going through postproduction.

Also, I will have more details about how you may participate in the African Diaspora Collection and Collard Project collaboration we are organizing with the Urban Growers Collective, Community Food Navigator, Chicago Grows Food, Stein Learning Garden, Gardeneers, Openlands, Healthy Schools Campaign and the Chicago Partnership for Health Promotion at UIC, among others.

Contact: orrinw@uic.edu

The views, thoughts, and opinions expressed are the speaker’s own and do not represent the views, thoughts, and opinions of the University of Illinois at Chicago, the OCEAN-HP, or the CPHP. The material and information presented here are for general information purposes only. While the podcast is about food literacy, we offer no health advice and encourage our listeners to seek guidance from their healthcare providers.