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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

Celebrating National Gardening Month with Healthy Gardens, Healthy Youth Programs

April 08, 2011 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Soon after moving into the White House, the First Lady along with local elementary school children planted The Kitchen Garden at the White House, the first garden of its kind on White House grounds since Eleanor Roosevelt's Victory Garden during World War II. Weeks earlier, I celebrated the 200th...

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