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Walking for the Health of It (or Let’s Move! Federal Employees)

May 07, 2012 Terri Romine-Ortega, USDA Food and Nutrition Service Southwest Region public affairs specialist

Dallas is home to a number of regional offices of federal agencies where we are all busy working to accomplish our various missions. Sometimes we get the opportunity to reach across departmental lines and work with our peers in other agencies. Recently, some of us walked right out of our office...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

FNS Celebrates USDA’s 150 Years of Service

May 04, 2012 Amanda D. Browne, Public Affairs, Food and Nutrition Service

Happy Birthday USDA!! We are 150 years strong, serving as federal department bettering the lives of the American people. For over 40 years USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) has served as the federal agency in USDA that administers the Nation's domestic nutrition assistance programs. Our 15...

Food and Nutrition

Bringing Nutrition Assistance to Hispanic Communities Across the Nation

May 03, 2012 Christina Martinez, Emerson National Hunger Fellow, USDA Center for Faith-Based and Neighborhood Partnerships

This week, the Center for Faith Based and Neighborhood Partnerships hosted a webinar in Spanish to launch our exciting new La Mesa Completa Tool Kit. The e-tool was made for Spanish-speaking faith and community leaders to learn about the various ways in which they can partner with USDA to ensure...

Food and Nutrition

School Enrollment in Cambodian Province Increases 70 Percent with USDA Support

May 02, 2012 Linda Habenstreit, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) partners with a variety of non-profit groups, cooperatives and international organizations to promote food security in developing countries around the world. The following guest blog highlights the successful partnership between FAS and International Relief...

Food and Nutrition Trade

Grillin’ and Chillin’ for National Barbecue Month

May 02, 2012 Michael T. Jarvis, AMS Public Affairs Director

April showers have passed and barbecues are in full bloom. Perfect weather and longer days make the month of May the perfect time to celebrate National Barbecue Month. Whether you think barbecuing requires gas or charcoal, or that ribs should only be parboiled, or if you insist that asparagus must...

Food and Nutrition Health and Safety

25,000 Senegalese Schoolchildren to Benefit from USDA-Supported Project

May 01, 2012 Linda Habenstreit, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Foreign Agricultural Service

USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) partners with a variety of non-profit groups, cooperatives and international organizations to promote food security in developing countries around the world. The following guest blog highlights the successful partnership between FAS and Counterpart...

Food and Nutrition Trade

USDA Offers Funding to Support School Nutrition

April 27, 2012 Janey Thornton, Deputy Under Secretary, USDA Food, Nutrition and Consumer Service

6 cent rule is a linchpin to schools adopting new meal standards that will improve kids’ meal choices in the cafeteria. USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has issued an important piece of the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act of 2010 – the 6 cent interim final rule – to give schools and communities the...

Food and Nutrition

Secretary's Column: A Farm, Food and Jobs Bill This Year

April 27, 2012 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Last week, the Senate Agriculture Committee took a first look at a proposed version of the Farm Bill – or, as I call it – the farm, food and jobs bill. This is an important first step in the process to write the legislation and get it passed into law. Farmers, ranchers, and the men and women who...

USDA Results Food and Nutrition Health and Safety Research and Science Trade

Healthy Gardens, Healthy Youth School Pilot Program: Training Teachers Coast to Coast

April 26, 2012 Duke Storen, Director Food and Nutrition Service Office of Strategic Initiatives, Partnerships, and Outreach

A classroom floor becomes a garden as 2 nd graders at Hiawatha Elementary in Webster, Iowa decide which of their favorite fruits and vegetables will be planted in their school garden. Gathered in anticipation around a rectangle that represents the actual size of the garden bed, their teacher...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Organic 101: The Lifecycle of Organic Food Production

April 26, 2012 Miles McEvoy, National Organic Program Deputy Administrator

This is the fifth installment of the Organic 101 series that explores different aspects of the USDA organic regulations. Through defined farming practices, organic principles promote ecological balance, foster the cycling of resources, and conserve biodiversity. To understand what that means when it...

Food and Nutrition

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