Eat Smart, Move More…SC is proud to announce the debut of Homegrown: South Carolina’s Guide to Starting or Enhancing Your Community’s Farmers’ Market.

This manual covers the basics of Farmers’ Market planning, management, funding, location, vendors and operations. It addresses specific details like legal, liability, food safety and government issues as well as marketing/communication, economic development, community involvement and special events. There are sections for key contacts and a list of additional resources for even more information, tips for media involvement and market branding.

The kit is available here for immediate download ….. or for a free copy to be mailed to you, contact Mary Kay Face at marykay@eatsmartmovemoresc.org

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South Carolina Healthy Options is an on line inventory of physical activity facilities in South Carolina.With this site, you can search a database of healthy activities based on your age and location within the state. Just choose the type of activity you are interested in, and see all the places you can find the activity in your county.

Click here to visit the website.You can also add an option to the database by visiting this link.

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The SC Breastfeeding Resource guide is a statewide, community-specific breastfeeding resource guide developed and disseminated by the South Carolina Breastfeeding Coalition. Resources are categorized by geographic area and type of service including but not limited to lactation consultants, hospital lactation services, community services, support groups, pump rental station. National resources and links have also been complied for the Guide. The Resource Guide has information pertinent to health professionals and also for the general public.

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A successful Safe Routes to School program integrates health, fitness, traffic relief, environmental awareness and safety under one program. It is an opportunity to work closely with your school, community and local government to create a healthy lifestyle for children and a safer, cleaner environment for everyone. This Safe Routes to School Strategies Manual is designed to give a school ideas on how to implement the five key components of Safe Routes to School - Encouragment, Education, Engineering, Enforcement and Evaluation.

Click here to download the guide.

For more information on Safe Routes to School, please visit the Department of Transportation’s Safe Routes to School program

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Walk to School Day is the first important step in changing your school’s environment to make it safer for students to walk and bike to school on a regular basis. Its main goal is to raise the awareness of this important issue. Additional goals of Walk to School Day are to:

• Encourage adults to teach children safe pedestrian behaviors
• Have adults help children identify and practice safe routes to school
• Create and/or raise awareness of how walkable a community is (or isn’t) and where improvements are needed
• Remind everyone of the tremendous health benefits of regular, daily walking
• Share valuable time with local community leaders, parents and children

Click here to visit South Carolina’s Walk to School headquarters.