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National FFA Officers Meet with Secretary Vilsack

January 17, 2014 Wayne Maloney, USDA Office of Communications

“We are excited by the challenges you presented to us,” said FFA National Secretary Mitch Bayer at the conclusion of a half-hour meeting of National FFA officers with Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack at the USDA Whitten Building earlier this week. In his meeting with the officers, the Secretary...

USDA Results Conservation Food and Nutrition

Secretary's Column: Fighting Rural Poverty in Appalachia and the Delta Region

January 17, 2014 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Cross posted from the Huffington Post: Rural America faces a unique set of challenges when it comes to combating poverty in our towns and communities. Too often, rural people and places are hard to reach or otherwise underserved—but not forgotten. I believe that USDA and its partners have the tools...

USDA Results Conservation Food and Nutrition Rural

Reinvent Your Holiday Stuffing With MyPlate - MyPlate Holiday Makeover Week 3

December 02, 2013 Melissa Ciampo, Nutritionist, Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion

The MyPlate Team continues to share “Makeover Monday” recipes each week on the USDA blog and the MyPlate Facebook page through January 6 th. Looking back, my fondest childhood memories took place during the holidays. I remember the smell of food cooking from the oven, the sound of the football game...

Food and Nutrition

High Tunnel Gives Kentucky Farmers Advantage with Berries and Other Produce

November 05, 2013 Christy Morgan, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Kentucky

Similar to the old adage, when Chris Adams married the wife, he married the family – and the family farm. Lucky for him, he loves farming and enjoys working with his in-laws to manage the 4,000-acre farm of soybeans, wheat and corn. Now it’s his full-time job, working with his brother-in-law to...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

Saluting our Veterans and their Service to America

August 08, 2013 Thomas Fern, Kentucky State Director for USDA Rural Development

Parade formations, 21-gun salutes, solemn flag presentations are all an important part of the duties carried out by our nation’s veterans and their organizations as they help us remember the fallen and show support for our current members of America’s military forces. Each have engrained in their...

Rural

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Help Feed Kids During the Summer

August 07, 2013 Don Arnette, Regional Administrator, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Southeast Region

Although about 21 million children nationwide receive free and reduced-priced meals through our National School Lunch Program, only about 3.5 million meals are served through the Summer Food Service Program (SFSP) on a typical day. Closing this gap and ensuring that disadvantaged children do not go...

Food and Nutrition

Making a House a Home - A Labor of Love

June 28, 2013 Wayne Maloney, Communications Coordinator, USDA Office of Communications

June is Homeownership Month. Today we are sharing a first person account of a 76-year old Kentucky resident who used USDA’s home loan program to purchase her first home. She submitted this account through the USDA Rural Development Kentucky State Office and we are sharing it so that others who are...

Rural

The 'Dream of Homeownership' is More than a Cliché for a Kentucky Family

June 10, 2013 Thomas Fern, state director for USDA Rural Development in Kentucky

Imagine for a moment you are a child surrounded by kind strangers – trailers coming and going with large pieces of structure, big cranes lifting and moving objects, women and men pounding nails into wood, saws ripping through timbers and groups of people working together to upright walls that will...

Rural

New Center Improves Lives of Kentucky Seniors, Creates Jobs

May 30, 2013 Thomas Fern, USDA Rural Development Kentucky State Director

Recently, I spoke at the grand opening of the Daisy Hill Assisted Living facility in Versailles, Ky. In visiting this facility, I reflected on the future of this and other facilities and their importance as we anticipate the droves of baby boomers seeking to maintain a quality of life as they...

Rural

Green House® Model Comes to Kentucky

May 09, 2013 Thomas Fern, USDA Rural Development State Director, Kentucky

During my 12 years as state director for USDA Rural Development in Kentucky, I have had the privilege of breaking ground on many projects; from water and sewer infrastructure, to business development, to housing complexes and community-based projects. All have been notable and important projects for...

Rural
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