There certainly hasn’t been a lack of policy discussion or federal funding to attempt to get kids eating healthy. Countless employees at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, land grant universities, and state and local agencies have been tasked with supporting healthy eating. Yet here in rural black Georgia communities, it isn’t uncommon to find kids with no understanding of proper nutrition. What is going wrong?
Healthy eating education efforts are rarely framed in the context of the traditions and culture of the rural black south.
Kelvin Graddick and his nieces at his family's Hamilton, GA farm.