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See First Hand How Partnerships Impact Children

March 16, 2011 Karen Twitty, Deputy Regional Administrator, USDA FNS Southwest Region

Celebrations always seem bigger in Texas. And the one on February 25, at Brawner Intermediate School in Granbury, Texas, was no exception. The event recognized the school’s invaluable partnership with dairy farmers, the Fuel Up to Play 60 program and USDA, who teamed to make an unprecedented pledge...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Training the Next Generation of Top Chefs

February 07, 2011 Edna Primrose, Office of Job Corps, Department of Labor

Last fall I was honored to participate in the Job Corp’s Top Chef Competition held on at the Department of Agriculture (USDA). I must say it was one of the most delicious assignments I’ve ever had! The competition, inspired by Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food, was a huge success. Over 20 Food...

Food and Nutrition Farming Initiatives

Winning the Future: Fuel Up to Fight Obesity

February 04, 2011 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: Today I had the honor of joining some of our nation’s principal thought-leaders at the site of Super Bowl XLV in Dallas, Texas, to sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) that outlines an unprecedented private-public partnership committed to child health and...

Initiatives

Regional Collaboration Uses Local Food Systems to Expand Rural-Urban Partnership

December 28, 2010 Bill Menner, USDA Rural Development State Director in Iowa

A regional initiative in Southwest Iowa originally intended to train farmers on local-food production has evolved into a rural-urban partnership that touches a poverty-stricken community. I joined USDA Rural Development Acting Deputy Under Secretary Doug O’Brien in Oakland, Iowa, recently to meet...

Rural

This Friday: Harvest Festival at USDA

October 27, 2010 Annie Ceccarini, Outreach and Education Coordinator, The People’s Garden Initiative

Please join us for music, food, games and other merriment at USDA’s Harvest Festival this Friday, October 29 th, from 10 am to 2 pm in the People’s Garden and Farmers Market at USDA Headquarters on the corner of Jefferson Drive and 12 Street, SW in Washington, DC.

Initiatives

“A Personal Impact to Climate Change”: Preserving the Northwoods Landscape for Future Generations

October 21, 2010 Leslie Brandt, Northern Research Station, Institute of Applied Carbon Science

Every summer since I was four years old, I’ve been returning to a small glacial lake in Northern Wisconsin where my family had summer cottages. As a child, I’d spend all day swimming in the lake that was darkened by the tannins secreted by the surrounding hemlock trees. The lake was often so cold...

Conservation Research and Science

The Tailored Approach to Youth and Science

October 06, 2010 Donald T. Floyd, Jr, President of National 4-H Council

For the third year in a row, hundreds of thousands of youth throughout the country are gathering today to celebrate 4-H National Youth Science Day (NYSD) by simultaneously conducting the National Science Experiment.

Research and Science

Woodsy Owl Helps Kickoff Local School Recycling Program

February 07, 2011 Jessica Wade; US Forest Service Sustainable Operations

Woodsy Owl and Forest Service staff members visited Braddock Elementary School in Fairfax County, Virginia on Friday, Jan. 14 to kickoff the school-wide Recycling Program. Forest Service employees were part of a K-2 nd grade assembly that focused on educating students about the four R’s—reduce...

Initiatives Forestry

SOS on Turkey Day – My Turkey Isn’t Ready, What Do I Do Now?

November 26, 2019 Chrystal Okonta, MSPH, CHES, Technical Information Specialist

On Thanksgiving, sometimes mistakes happen that make your turkey day a turkey don’t. What should you do if the turkey isn’t ready in time? Here are some ways to save the day.

Health and Safety

Century Old Hospital Vital to Saving Lives Builds Upon its Legacy with Expansion

March 27, 2023 Jane Asselta, New Jersey State Director for Rural Development

Saving lives is all in a day’s work at Deborah Heart and Lung Center in Browns Mills, New Jersey. In over 100 years of operation, the hospital estimates it has healed 2.3 million patients from every corner of the US and 87 countries around the world.

Rural