By Mary Ann Lienhart-Cross Extension Educator, Health & Human Sciences, Purdue Extension Elkhart County GOSHEN — Fall is a great time of year to continue your healthy eating! Peppers are foods of color and they are nutrient dense foods. Now is the time and all through the fall to put more peppers in your healthy eating …read more.

By STEPHANIE FAROH MA, RD, CD Extension Educator-Health and Human Science, Purdue Extension Kosciusko County On hot and humid summer days, I always love a cool, crisp salad with lots of great vegetables on it. Lucky for us, the fourth week in July is National Salad Week and a great time to spice up our …read more.

The Elkhart County 4-H Fair is adding a culinary contest to this year’s Home & Family Arts Department Open Class contests, according to Mary Ann Lienhart Cross, extension educator. The National Garden Bureau has declared 2015 as the year of the sweet pepper. Sweet peppers are wonderful sweet vegetables that are packed with many vitamins, …read more.