HEALTHY EATING – Erie County Health Department

CREATING HEALTHY COMMUNITIES – HEALTHY EATING

The Creating Healthy Communities program seeks to increase access to healthy and affordable foods through changes to policies, systems, and environments across Erie County. Our nutrition programming follows current recommendations set forth by the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans.

Community Gardens

Grow Well Community Garden

Grow Well Community Garden – ECHD’s Grow Well Community Garden is located at our Main Campus and provides supplemental fruit, vegetables and herbs to WIC participants, patients at the Erie County Community Health Center, residents at the Erie County Detox and Becky’s House Recovery Housing Center.

For more information about the Grow Well Community Garden please contact:

Angelina Cambarare, CHES
Assistant Epidemiologist/Public Relations Specialist
Erie County Health Department
acambarare@echdohio.org
(419) 626-5623, Ext. 5143

Hancock Street Community Garden

The Hancock Street Community Garden is a 10-bed community garden located at 914 Hancock Street in Sandusky, Ohio. In partnership with the OSU Extension Master Gardener Program, CHC assists with garden maintenance, programming, and advertisement. Additionally, CHC has partnered with the Erie County Board of Developmental Disabilities and Erie CORE to form the “Erie County Grow Getters” club, who participate in garden-based educational activities twice a month.

Strawberry Image Garden Building Image Garden Sign

Live Well

What Is It?

To help combat food insecurity in Erie County, the Erie County Health Department has partnered with OHgo to create pop-up food pantries providing pantry items and fresh produce to those in need. To ensure participants are familiar with the foods they are receiving, nutrition education and recipes are provided at each pop-up, as well. During the pop-up pantries, local community organizations have been welcomed to provide resources for those participating. Some of these organizations have included WIC, Head Start, Help Me Grow, Cribs for Kids and many more. If you are interested in having a table at an upcoming event, please reach out to the program coordinator.

Locations:

Erie County Department of Job and Family Services – 4^th Tuesday of each month from 11am-12pm at the Erie County Department of Job and Family Services located at 221 W. Parish St., Sandusky, OH 44870.

Kelleys Island – Last Friday of each month from 11am-12pm at the Erie County Community Health Center located at 117 Addison St., Kelleys Island, OH 43438

Contact:

Angelina Cambarare, CHES
Assistant Epidemiologist/Public Relations Specialist
Erie County Health Department
acambarare@echdohio.org
(419) 626-5623, Ext. 5143