“How we produce our food currently contributes to greenhouse gas emissions, but food production can become a climate solution,” says Lindsay Ganong, MS, RDN, LN, Montana Dietetic Internship Assistant Director, Graduate Coordinator & Instructor.
Lindsay grew up in Eau Claire and Hudson, Wisconsin. She then trained in Nutrition at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota, where she met farmers, did a local food internship, and sold at the farmer’s markets and worked at the college’s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) for two seasons.
Lindsay’s interest in sustainable nutrition landed her in Montana for the Montana Dietetic Internship, which was one of the first in the country to have a Sustainable Food Systems concentration. After a year of work in a rural hospital in Baker City, OR, Lindsay returned to MSU to complete the MS in Sustainable Food Systems, where she studied values-based decision-making for diverse, midsized farms in the Northern Great Plains. She then work for MSU Extension’s Nutrition Education Programs, overseeing nutrition educators in 19 counties and 5 reservations working towards policy, systems and environmental changes to support access to healthy food and physical activity choices in Montana’s lowest income communities. With a desire to lead food environment improvements for a smaller community, she served 2 years as a Food Service Director at Polson School District where the team worked really hard to transition to “scratch” cooking. She spent 2 years as Co-Executive Director of AERO (Alternative Energy and Resource Organization), a grassroots, statewide, nonprofit organization that cultivates sustainability by engaging community stakeholders and weaving networks that build lasting partnerships in the climate smart, sustainable agriculture and local food system sphere, creating spaces where leaders and inspired community models flourish. Much of her work at AERO was to develop supportive networks for community food systems to grow, including a revitalization of the Abundant Montana local food directory.
Lindsay grew up in Eau Claire and Hudson, Wisconsin. She then trained in Nutrition at the College of St. Benedict in Minnesota, where she met farmers, did a local food internship, and sold at the farmer’s markets and worked at the college’s CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) for two seasons.
Lindsay’s interest in sustainable nutrition landed her in Montana for the Montana Dietetic Internship, which was one of the first in the country to have a Sustainable Food Systems concentration. After a year of work in a rural hospital in Baker City, OR, Lindsay returned to MSU to complete the MS in Sustainable Food Systems, where she studied values-based decision-making for diverse, midsized farms in the Northern Great Plains. She then work for MSU Extension’s Nutrition Education Programs, overseeing nutrition educators in 19 counties and 5 reservations working towards policy, systems and environmental changes to support access to healthy food and physical activity choices in Montana’s lowest income communities. With a desire to lead food environment improvements for a smaller community, she served 2 years as a Food Service Director at Polson School District where the team worked really hard to transition to “scratch” cooking. She spent 2 years as Co-Executive Director of AERO (Alternative Energy and Resource Organization), a grassroots, statewide, nonprofit organization that cultivates sustainability by engaging community stakeholders and weaving networks that build lasting partnerships in the climate smart, sustainable agriculture and local food system sphere, creating spaces where leaders and inspired community models flourish. Much of her work at AERO was to develop supportive networks for community food systems to grow, including a revitalization of the Abundant Montana local food directory.
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