Board of Commissioners Meeting
The Board of Commissioners Meeting is underway. You can watch live on FGTV. Click here to view the meeting agenda.
The Board of Commissioners Meeting is underway. You can watch live on FGTV. Click here to view the meeting agenda.
Fulton County Cooperative Extension provides a Family and Consumer Sciences (FACS) agent who can teach residents about topics that affect their family, food, and house. FACS Agents focus on clients' economic and social well-being through programs that help people extend their income, cook and eat nutritiously, and make important buying decisions. Participants will learn about the relationship between food and health, safe food handling and storage, safe home food preservation and economical food selection and preparation.
Group classes or workshops include:
Fulton County Cooperative Extension provides free nutrition education classes to SNAP eligible families in Georgia.
The Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program is nationally known as EFNEP. EFNEP is a federally funded program. EFNEP has been helping parents learn how to feed their children healthier meals and snacks for more than 40 years. EFNEP works with agencies who serve families with children and those who are pregnant. A series of 6 EFNEP nutrition education sessions are provided on improving dietary needs to reduce the risk of chronic diseases (e.g., childhood/adult obesity, hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes); menu planning; stretching your food dollars; food safety to prevent food borne illness; recipe demonstrations, and incorporating physical activity on a daily basis.
The Fulton Fresh Mobile Market was created to educate residents living in communities designated as “food deserts” on the importance of fresh and in-season produce. Every week of the program, attendees will participate in a UGA Extension nutrition education program and then be provided with a free bag of in-season produce from our mobile market.
The mobile farmer's market typically runs for about 10 weeks during the summer months.