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Building a home, a community, friendships…and values with USDA RD Self-Help Program

July 05, 2012 Dianna Jennings, special projects coordinator, Arizona Rural Development State Office

“Even decades from now, after we die, our son will remember what we did to give him a home,” said Moises Fonseca in the comfortable living room of his new home. His six-year old son, also named Moises, smiled shyly at his dad.

USDA Results Food and Nutrition Rural

“Ask Karen” Tweets to Reduce Foodborne Illness at Fourth of July Barbecues

July 03, 2012 Catherine Cochran, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety and Inspection Service

USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service started its Fourth of July “party” a little early this year, hosting a bilingual Twitter party on June 28 to answer its tweeps’ food safety questions in advance of any gatherings they are hosting. “ Ask Karen,” FSIS’ virtual food safety representative, and...

Health and Safety Food and Nutrition

Celebrate the Red, White, Blue and Orange

July 02, 2012 Lawrence Hawkins, APHIS Public Affairs Specialist, Sacramento, CA

Keep the lemonade flowing this Fourth of July! The stars and stripes and fireworks would not be the same without citrus--iced tea with lemon, key lime pie, lemon chiffon cake, fish with lemon, orange sorbet, lemon-garlic chicken and avocado lime salsa. And, as the temperatures rise, kids across...

Conservation Health and Safety Food and Nutrition

Top Reasons to Shop at a Farmers Market

July 02, 2012 Joyce Hornick, Dietetic Intern and Wendy Wasserman Communications Specialist, USDA

Why shop at a Farmers Market? Access to fresh, locally grown foods, for starters. That may be one of the best reasons, but there are many more. Farmers markets have fruits and vegetables at the peak of the growing season. This means produce is at its freshest and tastes the best. The food is...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Four Food Safety Tips for the Fourth! How to Protect Your Family from a Surprising July 4th Danger

July 02, 2012 Elisabeth Hagen, USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety

Across the country, the Fourth of July celebration always centers on close friends and family and great food, usually from a barbeque. My family and I will be enjoying sun, sand, and a cookout at the beach this year . As parents, my husband and I take great care near the ocean — carefully explaining...

Health and Safety Food and Nutrition

Organic 101: Role of the National Organic Standards Board

June 28, 2012 Miles McEvoy, National Organic Program Deputy Administrator

This is the sixth installment of the Organic 101 series that explores different aspects of the USDA organic regulations. The National Organic Standards Board (NOSB) is made up of dedicated public volunteers appointed by the Secretary of Agriculture. It advises the National Organic Program (NOP), a...

Food and Nutrition

Nominate an Anti-Hunger Champion working at Home or Abroad

June 26, 2012 Norah Deluhery, Acting Director, USDA Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Hunger is not an abstract idea. It is a reality affecting the lives of millions of Americans every single day. And it hits our children particularly hard, with over 16 million kids in our country experiencing food insecurity each year. Internationally, nearly 1 billion people across the globe will...

Health and Safety Food and Nutrition Trade

Celebrating All Things Dairy for National Dairy Month

June 26, 2012 Dana Coale, AMS Dairy Programs Deputy Administrator

During June, we often celebrate many things: National Homeownership Month, the end of the school year and graduations, Father’s Day, and being able to watch our favorite teams duke it on the baseball diamond. But at USDA we have another favorite June celebration – National Dairy Month.

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Sazón y Salud: Goya apoya al programa nutricional MiPlato

June 25, 2012 Jessica Larson, USDA Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Goya, la compañía hispana de comida más grande en los Estados Unidos, es parte de la campaña de la Primera Dama Michelle Obama ¡A Moverse! (Let’s Move!) la cual está enfocada en motivar a los padres de familia a tener una vida saludable para ellos y sus familias. Al asociarse con el nuevo ícono...

Spanish Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Being All You Can Bean with Goya

June 25, 2012 Jessica Larson, USDA Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships

Goya, the largest Hispanic-owned food company in the United States, is part of the First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move! movement to empower parents to make healthy choices for themselves and their families. It is partnering with USDA’s new icon, MyPlate/MiPlato, that reminds consumers to build...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

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