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Guatemalan Girl Reaps Benefits of USDA’s Food for Education Program

May 17, 2011 Katie Gorscak, Public Affairs Specialist, Foreign Agricultural Service

The USDA McGovern-Dole Food for Education Program is working to make a difference in Central America. Guatemala has one of the highest rates of stunting in the world due to chronic malnutrition. More than 90 percent of families live on less than $2 a day and as a result, the majority of children are...

Food and Nutrition Trade

The Competition Gets Prickly as Judges Head to Minnesota

May 17, 2011 Aaron Lavallee, Office of Communications, USDA

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: I can’t tell you if there are 10,000 lakes in Minnesota, but I can tell you that there is one creative group of students the South Education Center Alternative (SECA) in Richfield, Minn. Richfield was the next stop in the First Lady’s Recipes for Healthy Kids...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Aloha! Mount Lebanon Elementary School

May 16, 2011 Aaron Lavallee, Office of Communications, USDA

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: You don’t have to go to Hawaii to get a taste of the islands. In fact the students at Mount Lebanon Elementary School in Pendleton, S.C. were cooking up what can only be described as a paradise for the taste buds in First Lady Michelle Obama’s Recipes for...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

What’s for lunch? How about a Roasted Fish Crispy Slaw Wrap?

May 13, 2011 Jack Currie, Public Affairs Specialist, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: It was off to the Sunshine State for our team of judges in the First Lady’s Recipes for Healthy Kids contest where they joined students at Orlando’s Liberty Middle School. The competition to date has been intense as kids cooked up some delectable dishes...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

AMS to Host an Introduction to PACA Webinar -- In Spanish

May 12, 2011 Kimberly Coy, AMS Fruit and Vegetable Programs Marketing Specialist

The USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) is excited about one of our upcoming webinars. To date, AMS Fruit and Vegetable Programs has delivered nearly ten free online webinars for fruit and vegetable growers, handlers, and distributors of all sized operations. The webinars have been a big...

Food and Nutrition

California Chef Helps Schools Go for Gold!

May 12, 2011 Allen Ng, USDA Food and Nutrition Service Western Regional Administrator

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: Chef Billy Reid, manager of child nutrition services at Salida Union School District, is an advocate of the Chefs Move to Schools initiative. Chef Reid has been using his expertise to make sure students in his District eat meals that are both healthy and tasty...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Supporting the Next Generation of Agriculture

May 12, 2011 David A.

All universities engage in research and teaching, but the nation’s more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities, have a third critical mission—extension. “Extension” means “reaching out,” and—along with teaching and research—land-grant institutions extend their resources, solving public needs...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition Farming

Supporting the Next Generation of Agriculture

May 12, 2011 David Aten

All universities engage in research and teaching, but the nation’s more than 100 land-grant colleges and universities, have a third critical mission—extension. “Extension” means “reaching out,” and—along with teaching and research—land-grant institutions extend their resources, solving public needs...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Michigan Chef Embraces First Lady’s “Chefs Move to Schools” Initiative

May 11, 2011 Kathleen FioRito, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Midwest Region

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: In March 2011, USDA Special Nutrition Programs Regional Director Julie Mikkelson and I met Chef Paul Penney at a HealthierUS School Challenge (HUSSC) award celebration in Canton, Michigan. Chef Paul, a volunteer with the First Lady’s Chefs Move to Schools...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

People’s Garden Opens in Gwacheon National Science Museum in Korea

May 10, 2011 Katie Gorscak, Public Affairs Specialist, Foreign Agricultural Service

You may remember when USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack announced last June that People's Garden’s existed in all 50 states, two U.S. territories, and three foreign countries. Since then, People’s Gardens are cropping up at Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS) posts throughout the world.

Food and Nutrition Trade Initiatives

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