Spring Break Nutrition

Over the past week Junior  Rangers & Farm Stand interns are on spring break. We had time to come in early to the conservancy and start different activities. For example, yesterday we went to the urban farm on Court Street. We planted beans, peas and lettuce.  We also built trellises for the beans and peas to grow up.

After the farm work, we watched a movie called Forks Over Knives. That movie was based on healthy living. It explained how you can end or reverse diseases just by eating a whole foods diet.We saw how many people switched to a plant based diet and it reversed diseases without the use of medication or technology such as chemotherapy and radiation.

Today we learned about the super foods such as fish, tomatoes, pumpkin, nuts, yogurt, etc. Each member of the NYLP (Newark Youth Leadership Project) created their own posters based on their assigned super fruit. We learned many things we never knew of and at the same time we had fun.