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From School Garden to Lunch Tray: Veggies Star in West Salem, Wisconsin

November 25, 2011 Kathleen FioRito, USDA Food and Nutrition Service Midwest Region

When it comes to local foods, it doesn’t get much fresher than vegetables direct from a school garden. In West Salem, Wisconsin, students are not only growing their own vegetables; they’re eating them – with enthusiasm -- in their school lunches. Even more, they’re having fun planting, digging, and...

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A School and Community with Distinction

February 23, 2011 Melisa Di Tano, Food and Nutrition Service, Western Region Nutritionist

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog: When First Lady Michelle Obama addressed the School Nutrition Association last year to promote her recently launched Let’s Move! Initiative, she mentioned Anji Baumann by name. Why? Anji was the first Food Service Director in the nation whose school, Gooding...

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Illinois School Hosts Rockin’ HealthierUS School Award Celebration

February 14, 2011 Alan Shannon, USDA Food & Nutrition Service, Midwest Region

We don’t often associate rock music with school nutrition, but perhaps that’s changed after a fun-filled, rollicking event I attended at Golfview Elementary in Carpentersville, Illinois.

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First High School in Nation Receives Gold of Distinction HUSSC Award

December 15, 2010 Deputy Under Secretary Janey Thornton, FNCS

I was privileged to go to the State of Mississippi on Dec. 9, for a HealthierUS School Challenge event. Actually, I was there for three events and 11 schools received either USDA’s Gold of Distinction Awards or Gold Awards. One of the six schools that was recognized for the Gold of Distinction Award...

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