Because everyone deserves access to healthy, safe, and affordable food.
If you measure it, better understanding will come. At least that’s the approach Robin Schow, Research Assistant at the University of Minnesota’s Healthy Foods, Healthy Lives Institute (HFHL), is taking with HFHL’s two-year food skills assessment study. Funded by a Cargill Foundation grant, the study seeks to establish a food skills baseline to help identify and measure food skills gaps in our local communities. “Our end goal is to come away with a tool to assess food skills,” said Robin. “There’s a lot of programming out there that purport food skills lead to better health, but no one really knows …