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Jars of home canned pickled vegetables
Dreaming of a pantry stocked with home canned produce? Make sure you follow the proper techniques with the correct equipment and research-tested recipes. Photo by: Tamara Harding/stock.adobe.com
May 20, 2025

Are you planning to can fruits and vegetables this year? Don’t just wing it. Planning and preparation are important first steps.

A woman puts nonperishable food on pantry shelves.
May 16, 2025

MISSISSIPPI STATE, Miss. -- A pilot program designed to increase food pantries’ capacity to provide health-related foods and services recently completed its initial classes.

A woman stands at the kitchen sink.
Washing your hands correctly helps prevent food-borne illness and stop the spread of colds, flu and other germs.
May 14, 2025

Handwashing can help prevent you and others from getting sick, but be sure you are washing the right way!

Success Stories

A man wearing a suit stands beside a desk with a banner listing “Welcome to the Tunica Health & Wellness Hub.”
Volume 10 Number 1

You don’t have to have diabetes to benefit from the principles of the Dining with Diabetes (DWD) program.

Three women standing in front of a MyPlate banner.
Volume 10 Number 1

Dining with Diabetes covers healthy eating, physical activity, disease monitoring, medication compliance, and risk reduction, and the course empowers participants by giving them access to nutrition knowledge and resources for food preparation. Classes include research-based education, cooking demonstrations, and healthy recipe tasting. These tools can help people make positive changes by planning menus, counting carbohydrates, controlling portions, and reading labels.

A woman, wearing a red T-shirt listing Rosemary’s Daycare on it, smiles while sitting on a bench with many small children sitting beside her, also smiling.
Volume 9 Number 3

The StoryWalk and colorful word art now installed in downtown Belzoni are giving Rosemary Williams a new opportunity for the children she cares for at Rosemary’s Daycare and Learning Center.

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