Maudene Nelson, RD, CDE is a nutrition educator at the Columbia University Institute of Human Nutrition and a diabetes educator at the Naomi Berrie Diabetes Center.  She sat down with GetHealthyHarlem.org to explain why locally grown food is healthier for you and the economy!

Mary Alice Lee and Maddalena Polletta work hard to build playgrounds at New York City school yards through the Trust for Public Land (TPL), but sometimes they face difficulties during the process. In this article, they talk about some of the challenges and how they get past them.

Mary Alice Lee and Maddalena Polletta from the Trust for Public Land (TPL) work with schools throughout New York City to build new playgrounds. The process of creating the playgrounds involves the students and staff at the school as well as parents and community members in order to build the best playgrounds possible.  It takes three months to design the playground, three months for drawings and approvals, and four to six months to construct the playground.  After a year of hard work, the students from the design team, the school, and the community are able to have fun on the playgrounds! Read more below!