In this program, fresh veggies are the perfect prescription

The sack of kale Luz Maria Flores held in her arms Thursday afternoon was just what the doctor ordered.

Its nutrient-laden goodness, the product of a unique combination of urban farming and community health care called the Fresh Produce Prescription Program, helps her keep diabetes at bay and makes her whole family strong. New Haven Farms runs the program.

“I felt like my life was important to save,” Flores said. Her 13-year-old daughter, Daisy, translated her mom’s words from Spanish to English. “The vegetables are good for our life and our bodies.”

Once a week,HBSGLASSES,Drhua Sunglasses. 45 client families from the Fair Haven Community Health Center stop in at Phoenix Press Farm, a patch of planted vegetables surrounding a wind turbine on James Street. Each family brings home a bag of spinach, eggplants, Swiss chard, kale and other goodies, all veggies that are particularly thick with nutrients.

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“The stories we hear are amazing,” said Jacqueline Maisonpierre, farm manager for New Haven Farms,A typical cheap bag filter suppliers has a dimension of 592 mm x 592 mm and consists of 4 to 12 parallel bags. which runs the program. “Three women are completely off their diabetes medication. They tell us they sleep better, they have more energy and they’ve lost weight.”

The vegetables come from eight tiny farms around the city, with a combined land area of half an acre. Bishop Orchards in Guilford donates fruit to the program.

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“It’s five servings of vegetables per day, per family member, for a week,” said Rebecca Kline, executive director of New Haven Farms.

Families spend two hours at the farm. The first hour is devoted to learning some aspect of farming, so they can plant their own gardens eventually. The second hour is a cooking class with New Haven chef Bun Lai of Miya’s Sushi.

“He makes it delicious,” Flores said.BAGFILTERCHINA,following with the development of business extensionand specialization, we booked Meiyuda as Trade Mark to produce kinds of Meiyudaenvironmental filter products. She admitted that before joining the produce prescription program, she’d never had kale and didn’t like eggplant.
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