Family and Consumer Education Contacts
Mallory Stanford-Jackson
Food Insecurity and Hunger
(845) 677-8223 x149
L. Schmidt
Youth Community Educator
(845) 677-8223 x122
Family and Consumer Education Events
FSNEP Event
Date: 9/10, (rain or shine)
Title: Open Garden Day
Time: 11:00 AM - 3:00 PM
Location: Farm and Home Center, 2715 Route 44, Millbrook
Come and join us for FREE tours of our gardens and FREE food and drink. Learn tips from our Master Gardener volunteers, get recipes from our Nutrition Educators and much more! Garden tours at 11 AM and 1 PM. Click here to view flyer.
Family Survival Series Workshops
- Date: September 14
Title: Making Ends Meet
Date: September 21
Title: Eating Healthy on Any Budget
Date: September 28
Title: Credit and Debt Management
Date: October 5
Title: The Balancing Act
Time: 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Location: Grinnell Library, 2642 East Main Street, Wappingers Falls. Please call 845-297-3428 to register. Click for more information.
Financial Management Workshops
Making Ends Meet - Teaching you how to develop and use a houshold spending budget. Participants will receive a free money management kit.
Credit and Debt Management - How to use credit wisely, pay down debt and obtain a credit report. Participants receive free credit management tools.
$ave Energy, $ave Dollars - Learn about low-cost and no-cost ways to save energy and reduce your energy bills. Also learn about programs that can help you afford energy-efficiency improvements with subsidies, low-interest loans, or free services to qualifying households. Participants receive a kit of energy saving items.
These Empower Workshops are scheduled for September and October!!!
Food, Nutrition and Wellness
Welcome to the homepage for the Food, Nutrition and Wellness (FNW) Programs of Cornell Cooperative Extension Dutchess County!
About us…
Through community-based programs, we provide useful and accurate food, nutrition and wellness information to the residents of Dutchess County with a focus on individual and community food security.
We accomplish this through education programs for families, youth, individuals, professionals and communities, as well as through the facilitation of systems and environmental change in various settings.
We are also known as the Nutrition Information Program (or NIP, for short) by the various families and communities in Dutchess County.
For information about our programs and efforts, or for general information on food, nutrition and wellness, click on the appropriate links below.
Food, Nutrition and Wellness Programs - our adult, family, youth and community projects and partners
FNW Information and Recipes - our quarterly news update and recipe selection plus a link to our archives
FNW Links - links to helpful sources of food, nutrition and wellness information as well as to our partnering organizations
FNW Success and Stories - FNW staff share stories straight from the front line
FNW Enrollment and Referral - contacting us and PDF versions of our Enrollment Request and Interagency Referral forms to download and print (available in English & Spanish)
Nutrition education at the grocery store…