About ONIE

Choose Homemade Healthy Living Project: Tailored Nutrition Education Materials

We host a library of 250+ quick, healthy, and delicious recipes. We also print our recipes in our annual nutrition calendar and distribute recipe cards to schools and other organizations across the state.

Choose Homemade Digital Outreach

We develop online videos, blogs, social media posts, and other print materials describing quick, simple tips for living healthy, posted on our Facebook and Instagram. We also host seasonal campaigns to support changing social norms and increasing home meal preparation.

Tasty Text

Texting program to increase vegetable consumption at dinnertime meals.

MyPlate Cooking Classes

We conduct cooking classes and demonstrations, highlighting the importance of eating a well-balanced diet.

Indigenous Foods at Early Child Education (ECE) Centers

In partnership with Chickasaw Nation and other tribal affiliates ONIE will launch a new project to develop recipes promoting North American Indigenous foods for the ECE environment. Recipes will be developed to meet the ECE meal patterns including recipes for breakfast, lunch/supper, and snack. Recipes will be economical, scalable, include ingredients that can be easily sourced, and palatable for young children.

Western Oklahoma Wellness

In partnership with OFMQ and Southwestern Oklahoma State University, we will serve Beckham, Greer, Kiowa, Roger Mills, and Washita Counties to promote diabetes prevention with clinical providers and their community.

Let’s Get Moving

Every year ONIE hosts events to promote being physically active as free family fun, encouraging all to participate. Events have been held in Lawton, Midwest City, and Cordell.

Farmers Market Harvest Highlight

Partnering with OSU Extension CNEP program, we promote in-season produce for local farmers markets with a live market tour and a cooking demonstration.

Increase EBT Access to Local Food

We assist farmers markets in the process of accepting SNAP benefits, providing support such as standardized signage and recipes, and helping those markets grow so that all Oklahomans have greater access to fresh produce.

OKFresh

In partnership with Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality (OFMQ), we are piloting a clinic referral initiative to provide a food incentive program at participating farmers markets to individuals the clinic identifies as food insecure.

Oklahoma Local Agriculture Collaborative

The Oklahoma Local Agriculture Collaborative was established to strengthen and grow the capacity of Oklahoma’s local agriculture. OLAC serves to unite partner agencies with agriculture entrepreneurs to recognize and represent the needs of local agribusiness. It’s completely free to join OLAC!

Our goal is to grow the capacity of Oklahoma’s local agriculture by establishing a membership network for producers & direct-to-consumer markets. Gain access to local agriculture resources, events, and mentorship opportunities when you sign up to be an OLAC member.

Oklahoma Local Agriculture Summit

ONIE co-hosts the annual summit with Oklahoma Department of Agriculture Food and Forestry to provide innovative practices, resources, and networking opportunities for Oklahoma’s local food system.

EBT Innovations

Working with OKDHS, ONIE will help modernize the EBT system at farmers markets and local food access sites. Additionally, efforts are being made to automate the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program Application.