[POP Collect 2025] Field to Table
Care Continuum
POP Collect
National Healthcare Group
10 October 2025
1. Address children’s needs by improving their knowledge and attitudes towards vegetables. F2T seeks to empower children to become 'producers' where they learn how to grow edibles and prepare nutritious dishes from their own.
Year Submitted: 2025
Published Date: 10 October 2025
Tags: Care Continuum, Preventive Care, Patient Education, Health Promotion
About this Content
Aims
1. Address children’s needs by improving their knowledge and attitudes towards vegetables.
2. Strengthen home environment by equipping children with the skills to advocate for themselves and influence their family towards healthy dietary habits.
3. Improve the total well-being of children.
Background
Children growing up in low SES environments are more likely to start with poorer inherited maternal-child health, limited access to fresh, nutritious whole foods, and increased exposure to stressors and unhealthy lifestyle habits due to poverty and unstable environments resulting in poor health trajectories.
Methods
Field to Table (F2T) is a program for children to build a positive relationship with vegetables. Activities include planting vegetables, hands-on cooking, field trips to community gardens/supermarkets, and celebration events.
Results
In pre-post surveys, F2T participants have shown significant improvements in willingness to try unfamiliar food, self-efficacy to ask family to buy vegetables, and confidence in buying groceries to prepare a meal.
Conclusion
F2T seeks to empower children to become 'producers' where they learn how to grow edibles and prepare nutritious dishes from their own harvest.
Lessons Learnt
1. Power of group: Promotes encouragement and leadership (especially in mixed age groups).
2. Importance of family involvement: Engaging parents, who are main decision makers on food, on nutrition.
3. Customisation of F2T by facilitators: Curation of activities and ownership of the program.
Keywords
nutrition, dietary habits, children, community, education
Innovators' Details
Innovators' Details
Healthcare Cluster(s) | National Healthcare Group |
Organization(s) Involved | National Healthcare Group |
Platform(s) | POP Collect |
Healthcare Professional Group(s) | Community Care, Allied Health |
Applicable Specialty or Discipline | Nutrition ＆ Dietetics |
Project Lead(s) | Ng Wan Zhyi |
Project Member(s) | Et al. |
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Ng Wan Zhyi - wan_zhyi_ng@nhg.com.sg