hiedi anderson

On Tuesday, Heidi Anderson came down to talk to our class. She is a registered dietitian that works at wellworkds. She recieved her masters in dietitics as well as public health. She is still an RD but does not use her nutrition knowledge very much any more because she is coordinating programs. She coordinates such programs as walk for a cause and the pumpkin fest. She used to think that she was always going to work in child nutrition and food insecurity with children. But after getting her masters in public health she discovered a different route. She randomly came across the job at wellworks after moving back for a guy. She had previous experience working from the public health aspect and found out that she really liked it. She now works at well works and coordinates many programs for community health and wellness. She really enjoys coordinating these wellness programs for wellworks. She plans the programs but they also get ideas from the people in the community. They will do surveys to see what kind of programs the poeple want to do and would participate in. They also evaluate the programs by sometimes doing pre and post surveys or just a general survey to see what the people enjoyed or learned from the program. The funding comes from Ohio University and fees that people pay to use wellworks. This allows them to do these progams. She really enjoys doing what she does now and is glad that she did not end up where she planned. She highly recommended having a open mind about what you will end up doing because it can work out really well like it did for her.

Our group went to the garden on thursday. We finished weeding the entire thing and then we tilled the soil. I am glad that we finished it because now we can focus on what we are planting. This weekend Kendall and Kayla are going to the farmers market to get broccoli, spinach and kolrabi. They might get something else too. Then on saturday they should also get planted so we will actually have something in the garden finally. The weekend after that we will get the rest of the plants and plant them so we avoid the frost. I am excited to see our plants grow and see the food that will come out of the garden!