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Roseland Community Learns Medicinal Herb Use at Bayer Farms

This reporting is supported by the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.   Here's KRCB's landing page for the project.  And you'll find links to KBBF's Spanish-language stories here.

Other stories in this series include:

Informe Program at KBBF Tackles Health: En Español

Roseland Elementary Confronts Food Insecurity on First Day of School

Violence Prevention Partnership Keeps Kids out of Gangs

Santa Rosa Hosts Gang Prevention Training for Parents
 
KRCB Begins Collaboration with KBBF on Roseland Health

Maria de los Angeles Quiñones stands in the medicinal herb garden at Bayer Farms. Photo Credit: Adia White

Maria de los Angeles Quiñones stands in the medicinal herb garden at Bayer Farms. (Photo: Adia White / KRCB)

October 3, 2018
On average, residents of Southwest Santa Rosa have poorer health outcomes than their neighbors in more affluent sections of the city. According to the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, a 2014 report published by the Sonoma County Department of Health Services, found that Roseland had a lower human development index than the state of Mississippi, which is ranked lowest in the nation. Human development indices are based on a number of factors including health, income and education.
 
As part of our continuing coverage of health in Roseland, KRCB’s Adia White attended a class called “Cultivating for Health” at Bayer Neighborhood Park and Gardens. She has more on how this group is taking control of their health by growing, preparing and using medicinal plants.
 

This report is part of our ongoing partnership with radio station KBBF. It is supported by a grant from the USC-Annenberg Center for Health Journalism Impact Fund.

 

[This story was originally published by KRCB.]

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