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School Nutrition Professionals – Our Everyday Heroes

May 02, 2014 Dr. Janey Thornton, Deputy Under Secretary, USDA Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services

As the school year begins to wind down, let’s take time to acknowledge the unsung heroes in our nation’s school cafeterias. School nutrition employees contribute greatly to a child’s short- and long-term health and academic success, but their contributions often go without recognition. Today is...

Food and Nutrition

Students Reduce Erosion on the Hoosier National Forest

September 25, 2013 Judi Perez, Hoosier National Forest, U.S. Forest Service

Streams will flow more freely and bees will have a new home on the Hoosier National Forest, thanks to the work of six young women from central Indiana. The women -- recent high school graduates from Bloomington High School North and South, a high school senior from Bedford, Ind., and an Indiana...

Forestry

Building Swap Financed by USDA Supports Arts, Education Goals

July 31, 2013 Kathy Beisner, Acting USDA Rural Development Delaware/Maryland State Director

Sussex County, Delaware’s only charter school, the former Sussex Academy of Arts & Sciences middle school, is being re-named “ Sussex Academy” as it expands to include a high school. But unlike most expansion projects, the academy is swapping its old building for an existing building that meets its...

Rural

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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