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Fresh From the Farm: Massachusetts Tomatoes Take Center Stage

September 20, 2010 James Arena-DeRosa, Northeast Regional Administrator for USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service

Recently tomato farmers from across the Bay State converged on Boston City Hall Plaza seeking top tomato bragging rights at the 26 th Annual Tomato Festival. I joined a panel of food writers, chefs, cookbook authors, grocers, and state officials as we readied our score sheets.

Food and Nutrition Farming

Vice President Releases a Report Highlighting USDA and Other Recovery Act Projects that are Changing America

September 20, 2010 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

If you want more proof that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act has produced major economic improvement in America, check out the report issued Friday by Vice President Biden. It highlights some of the most innovative Recovery Act projects undertaken across America and I’m proud to say that a...

Initiatives Technology

USDA Receives Advisory Council on Historic Preservation Award

September 17, 2010 Deidra L.McGee, USDA Forest Service Office of Communication

The Forest Service played an integral role with USDA and DOI being selected as recipients of the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation (ACHP) Award for Federal Preserve America Accomplishment. On Sept. 16, both Departments were recognized at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. for their outstanding...

Forestry

USDA Rural Development Puerto Rico Joins With NRCS to Feed Families

September 17, 2010 Miguel A. Ramírez, USDA Puerto Rico Public Affairs Coordinator

We recently marked the final day of Feds Feed Families Campaign. José Otero-García, USDA Rural Development State Director for Puerto Rico, led the efforts of the Campaign that included the help from our sister Agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). We collected 500 pounds of food...

Conservation Rural

Little Colorado Medical Center in Arizona Will Provide Improved Medical Services and Create Jobs

September 17, 2010 Dianna Jennings, Arizona USDA Public Information Coordinator

In the 14 th century the Hisat’sinom people, ancestors of the Hopis, found themselves on the sandy slopes of a rich flood plain while on their migration north. This beautiful location in the Little Colorado River Valley was so compelling that the people stayed and established a community they called...

Rural

USDA Recovery Act Grant Helps Establish a Telepharmacy to Help Seniors, Town Residents, in Minnesota

September 17, 2010 Adam Czech, USDA Minnesota Public Affairs Specialist

For most of its 130-year existence, the city of Adrian, Minn., has had the services of a hometown pharmacist. That is, until the local pharmacy was forced to close in 2008.

Initiatives Rural

“Through My Eyes”-A Missouri Community Gets a New Hospital With USDA and Recovery Act Funding Support

September 16, 2010 Janie Dunning, Missouri State Director, USDA Rural Development

I am winding through rural roads in extreme northwest Missouri, away from any large city, in the middle of the country, basically out in the middle of nowhere as some would say, and I am thinking about the investment Rural Development is making; thinking about the amount of money we have provided to...

Initiatives Rural

USDA Utah Rural Development Participates in Consultation with Tribes

September 16, 2010 Donna Birk, USDA Rural Development-Utah

USDA Rural Development officials joined Greg Bell, Lieutenant Governor of the State of Utah recently at the 2010 Native American Summit held in Ogden. This historic gathering provided an opportunity to meet with Utah’s tribal Leaders, and explore the means available for USDA to become a more...

Rural Technology

The Recovery Act in Your Community: Using Terraces to Reduce Erosion and Improve Water Quality

September 16, 2010 Stephanie McLain, District Conservationist, NRCS Minnesota

Jim Joens remembers planting crops on the Minnesota farm where he grew up as early as 1973, when he was 14 years old. Even then he knew that farming was what he wanted to be doing, and he’s been doing it ever since.

Initiatives Conservation

The Recovery Act in Your Community: Protecting Farmland & Houses

September 15, 2010 Rey Adame, New Mexico NRCS

Prop Canyon Dam was built in 1960 in the village of Bluewater, New Mexico by USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), the Lava Soil and Water Conservation District (SWCD) and the Bluewater Toltec Irrigation District. The earthen structure was erected to protect crops, residents and...

Initiatives Conservation
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