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(narrator) The economy may have turned up the heat on family food budgets...
(Sound of lids dropped into empty pan)
(narrator) ...but these folks are learning...
(class leader) You're going to be getting ready some yellow squash.
(narrator) ....how to trim the grocery bill...
(Sound of chopping)
(narrator) ...and make the harvest last for months.
(Shimeka Moore) Sometimes you don't know how to take care of your produce.
Then you may let it spoil if you don't learn how to can it
or freeze it like we're learning how to do.
(narrator) United Methodist Urban Ministries of Richmond
partners with the local food bank and agricultural
extension agents, teaching families to preserve vegetables.
(class leader) We have to do something with them,
if we want to have them in the winter.
(class member 1) Squash time!
(class member 2) It smells good.
(narrator) Some of the cooking students live in or near
public housing, where access to fresh food is limited and
the average income can be less than $9,000 a year.
(Dave Cooper) Typically in a food desert, we find in
America high levels of obesity, high levels of
diabetes and other food-related disorders.
(Anjernette Bowens) I am going to take back what I learn to my community...
the Girl Scouts, the kids.
It will help them in the long run.
(narrator) Studies show that family canning saves
up to 60% over store-bought items.
(class member 3) Summer squash pickles. Yum, yum
(narrator) Plus learning these skills not only revitalizes
a lost art; it can revitalize a community.
(class member 4) I'm proud of that one...that's some prize
beans that's gonna take first place in the county fair.