fbpx

Get Healthy De Soto

…having a long-lasting positive impact on the health and safety of the De Soto community by encouraging healthy lifestyle choices, through programs promoting physical activity, healthy nutrition, community involvement, and disease and injury prevention.

DFM Blood Drive

Donor Eligibility

Schedule A Time

The market will be hosting a blood drive on Saturday, August 22nd. We’ve partnered with St. Andrew’s and the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center to hold the drive from 9-12 in the fellowship hall.

The Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center provides donor and blood services to Mercy Hospital Jefferson just down the road. The blood donations won’t just go to the hospital though, and we’re excited to be hosting our first blood drive with a regional agency that serves much of the greater St. Louis area.

From the Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center website:

Mississippi Valley Regional Blood Center is the exclusive provider of blood products and services to 88 hospitals in Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin. The Blood Center is based in Davenport, Iowa, where MVRBC’s testing, processing and primary distribution center handles more than 250,000 units of blood components each year. MVRBC is a not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization.
MVRBC collects blood at 19 fixed site donor centers and at more than 4,000 mobile blood drives held each year. The population of the Blood Center’s service region exceeds 4-million residents and donors give more than 180,000 donations each year.

Blood donations are used to treat many illnesses, not just the car crash victims that come to mind first. In fact, blood transfusions are given for a host of different illnesses, including kidney disease, cancer, pernicious anemia, and hemophilia, and is commonly needed after surgeries.

Please consider donating on August 22nd!

Donor Eligibility

Schedule A Time

National Eat Your Vegetables Day

Today is National Eat Your Vegetables Day! Since June is National Fresh Fruit and Vegetables Month, it only makes sense to celebrate these fine, healthy foods.

Enjoy vegetables as part of a meal or as a snack. For more information about nutritional content of various vegetables, check out this chart from the FDA. Just imagine! If you had a leaf lettuce salad with cauliflower, you’d have met your Vitamin A and Vitamin C recommendations for the day. Not to mention the other minerals that are contained in vegetables that help promote healthy skin and hair and can boost your immune system.

It is recommended by the USDA Dietary Guidelines for Americans, to consume 3 to 5 servings of vegetables per day. For most vegetables, one serving is 1/2 to 1 cup and can be eaten either raw or cooked.

So here’s to shopping at the DeSoto Farmers’ Market and healthy eating on National Eat Your Vegetables Day!

Adopt-a-Highway Clean-Up Scheduled

Saturday, May 9th is a clean-up day for the market’s Adopt-a-Highway stretch. It will begin at 1:00 PM and everyone is invited to help.

The market adopted the stretch on Highway 110 just east of town a couple of years ago, but Missouri’s Adopt-a-Highway program has been around since the late ’80s. Per MoDOT’s website, there are currently more than 4,700 groups and 47,000 volunteers in the program making Missouri’s roadsides cleaner and more attractive.

So, what do we do with our adopted road? Adopters have the option to clean up litter, mow, beautify through landscaping, or plant native grasses and flowers. We clean up litter. The litter picked up through this program statewide allows MoDOT to direct its resources to other necessary tasks.

The weather is supposed to be warm, but there’s a potential for rain; about 40%. Be sure to check our Facebook page for any updates in case of inclement weather. If you’d like more information about adopting a highway, click on the photo above.

 

Coming to the Market!

This Saturday, May 9th will bring something different to the market. Amber Henry will be cooking brats & hamburgers. Sides will also be available. If you’re looking to get a breakfast brat, you’ll need to wait until 9 AM because that’s when they’ll begin selling them.

Update about Lotions

Lotions, lip balms, bath salts, etc. may now be sold at the Farmer’s Markets in Jefferson County as long as the following criteria are met:

  1. Contact Nancy Radoch with the Jefferson County Health Department ([email protected]) first for initial approval before they can sell their products at the markets.
  2. Each vendor must also contact Julie Vosilus, her information is below, regarding the product(s) to be sold. Julie will review the product ingredients. During the review time, that vendor may sell the products. No medical nor therapeutic claims may be made on the products. Each product the vendor sells must contain a complete ingredient label.
  3. Once Julie has reviewed the vendor’s products, she will determine if anything more should be done.
  4. Each vendor must email Nancy Radoch a complete list of the types of products they will be selling including all ingredients.

Contact Information

Julie N. Vosilus
State Liason
U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Kansas City District Office
8050 Marshall Drive, Suite 205
Lenexa, KS 66214
Office Phone 913-495-5134
Fax 913-495-5115

News

Contact

[email protected]

Mailing Address

520 N. Main Rd.
DeSoto, MO 63020