That Pop-Up Restaurant: Innovation in a Summer Feeding Program

Objective: That Pop-Up Restaurant Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) was a federally reimbursed program that first served healthy meals to families in a rural Kansas community during the summer of 2017. The program aimed to empower communities to address child hunger by reducing stigma concerning food assistance and providing high-quality, nutritious meals to families. This pilot was developed to increase low utilization rates of summer feeding programs. Methods: An ecological approach was implemented to engage students and families. Program innovations included an open menu ordering format with paid adult meals and proper food storage while maintaining USDA’s nutritional requirements. Additionally, the menu options exceeded fruit and vegetable requirements. Results: On average, 9.6% of youth who participated in the free and reduced-price lunch programs participated daily in summer nutrition during the 2016-2017 school year (FRAC, 2019). Comparatively, That Pop-Up Restaurant’s pilot had over 25% of eligible youth participate in the program one or more times. Conclusions: That Pop-Up Restaurant summer food service program showed promising results for the target population and program developers aim to replicate the program in various communities.

Influence of the summer feeding by carbohydrates on catalase activity in honey bees

The nutritional composition of rations determines the strength of honey bee families. Feeding with various carbohydrate solutions is widely used in beekeeping. The form of carbohydrate intake in insects can adversely affect their health, leading to redox imbalances. Catalase activity (CAT) is a marker of oxidative stress. It was investigated the catalase activity in foraging bees Apis mellifera during their summer feeding with carbohydrates in the field after grass flowering. The research was perfomed on a private apiary in Chernivtsi region with the local bees (hybrids of Carpathian, Ukrainian steppe and Caucasian breeds). 32 bee colonies, eight experimental groups, were fed various carbohydrates for four days. These are 30 % and 60 % sugar solution, a mixture of honey and 60 % sugar solution (2: 3), without feeding, 30 % glucose and fructose solutions, a mixture of 15 % glucose and fructose solutions (1: 1), a mixture of 30 % fructose solutions glucose (1: 1). Then all bees were fed with 30 % sugar solution. CAT activity was determined in the head, thorax and abdomen of bees by Aebi method with modifications. The highest CAT activity was detected when using 30 % sugar solution for insect feeding. While doubling the sugar concentration and adding honey to the sugar syrup reduced the activity of this enzyme in all bee tagmas. Feeding the colonies with 30 % solutions of glucose or fructose also decreased CAT activity. The cessation of additional feeding decreased the CAT activity in abdomen tissues. It should be noted that the 60 % concentration of sugar, which results equimolar amount of monosaccharides by hydrolysis, differently affects the CAT activity in the tissues of the head and thorax. Decrease of CAT activity is observed on a diet with disaccharide, and this activity does not change on a diet with an equimolar mixture of monosaccharides. At the same time, two fold reducing the sugars concentration (30 % sugar compared to 15 % glucose + 15 % fructose) has the opposite effect – a decrease of enzyme activity in head tissues on an equimolar mixture of monosaccharides and no changes in thorax tissues. Conclusions. It was shown that feeding bee colonies in the period of cessation of the main honey plants flowering with 30 % sugar solution increased the CAT activity in foraging bees. Feeding with 30 % solutions of monosaccharides (glucose, fructose) and 60 % solution of sugar led to decrease of enzyme activity in all studied tagmata (head, thorax, abdomen) of bees. The tagmaspecific responce to various types of a carbohydrate diet in bees was found: in the abdominal tissues of all experimental groups there was a decrease of catalase activity compared to feeding with 30 % sugar solution (preparatory stage), while in the tissues of the thorax and head CAT activity depended on the type of carbohydrate diet. It was demonstrated that the form of carbohydrate intake (disaccharide or equimolar mixture of monosaccharides) affects the CAT activity in the tissues of the head and thorax of insects.

Movements of juvenile and sub-adult striped bass Morone saxatilis in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada

Juvenile striped bass (age-1) of distinct genetic ancestry were re-discovered in the Saint John River, New Brunswick in 2014 after a 35 yr hiatus of recognition. These juveniles were determined to be highly genetically divergent from all possible source populations, hypothesized to be of Saint John River ancestry, and thus considered evidence of the continued existence of the native stock. Successful recruitment of strong year classes of striped bass within the Saint John River, however, appears to be infrequent. We acoustically tagged and tracked juvenile and sub-adult striped bass (n = 37; age 2-4) in the Saint John River in both 2015 and 2016, and identified summer feeding and overwintering habitats that established an in-river residency. Following decades of poor or no recruitment of the native striped bass stock, it is now imperative that managers quickly include monitoring of juvenile and sub-adult striped bass and protection of their habitats in the conservation and recovery efforts for Saint John River striped bass.

Development and implementation of scientifically based technology of treatment of parasitoses of horses herd keeping in conditions of Yakutia

The article presents the regularities of the epizootic process of parasitosis of horses with herd content of horses in Yakutia. In the long process of tebenevka reduction of fatness of horses can lead to the disruption of their normal functioning, deteriorates the ability of tebenevka, reduced immunity, observed in mares abortion. The authors point out that in the best case, stallions can lose up to 10-12% over the winter, and mares up to 20-22% of the weight gained by them after summer feeding, to prevent the strong impact of cold factors of tebenevka on the body of animals, a scientifically based technology of complex therapy, with the organization of feeding, is recommended. The authors confirm that the factor providing intensive contamination of pastures by eggs and invasive larvae of helminths is the crowded content providing powerful growth of extensiveness and intensity of invasion in all livestock of horses lack of planned preventive and therapeutic deworming.

The fatty acid composition of sheep's milk of an autochthonous breed

The study included a total of 127 sheep milk samples from two different areas (Livno and Travnik) in summer feeding period (July, August and September). Fatty acids in milk were determined by gas chromatography (GC). The animals were marked with the appropriate number of ear tags on the basis of which we always took samples from the same animals through different periods. Fatty acids in milk were determined by gas chromatography and the following fatty acids composition: butyric acid, caproic acid, caprylic acid, capric acid, stearic acid, oleic acid, linoleic acid, arachidonic acid, eicosapentaenoic acid, docosahexaenoic acid, rumenic acid. The fatty acid content of sheep's milk in this study showed a tendency of variation, both within and between sampling areas, and characterized by its relatively high content of saturated fatty acid (SFA) during the period of harvest.