Skip to main content
Skip to main content

farming


First-ever Regional Farm to School Institute Underway in the Northeast

November 23, 2015 Danielle Fleury, Farm to School Lead, Northeast Region, Food and Nutrition Service

This account was written by VT FEED Project Director, Betsy Rosenbluth and Shelburne Farms Public Relations and Marketing Director, Vera Chang. As principal of Sharon Elementary School in Sharon, Vt., Barrett Williams helps his teachers integrate farm to school pedagogy into curricula by making sure...

Food and Nutrition

Building Organic Partnerships: Sound and Sensible Certification Projects

September 05, 2014 Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator of the National Organic Program

This is the seventeenth installment of the Organic 101 series that explores different aspects of the USDA organic regulations. Making organic certification accessible, attainable, and affordable involves collaboration with many partners across the country and around the globe. To advance this work...

Conservation

Organic 101: Understanding the "Made with Organic***" Label

May 16, 2014 Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator of the National Organic Program

This is the sixteenth installment of the Organic 101 series that explores different aspects of the USDA organic regulations . Deciphering food labels and marketing claims can be a challenge for the average consumer. Companies use production and handling claims as a way to differentiate their...

Food and Nutrition

Organic 101: Ensuring Organic Integrity through Inspections

February 26, 2014 Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator of the National Organic Program

This is the fifteenth installment of the Organic 101 series that explores different aspects of the USDA organic regulations. USDA certified organic products are produced and sold around the world, many originating from over 17,700 organic operations right here in the United States. The USDA organic...

Food and Nutrition

Nebraska's FFA Youth Leaders Impressed and Impressive

August 19, 2013 Kent Politsch, Chief, FSA Public Affairs

It’s a big deal when you’ve just graduated from a small town high school in Western Nebraska to make a trip to Washington, D.C. It’s especially a big deal when you get to sit in the office of the Administrator of the Farm Service Agency while in D.C. and share your thoughts. Spencer Hartman made the...

Conservation

Organic 101: Five Steps to Organic Certification

October 10, 2012 Miles McEvoy, National Organic Program Deputy Administrator

This is the eighth installment of the Organic 101 series that explores different aspects of the USDA organic regulations. The USDA organic label is backed by a certification system that verifies farmers or handling facilities located anywhere in the world comply with the USDA Organic Regulations...

Food and Nutrition
Subscribe to farming

AskUSDA

One central entry point for you to access information and help from USDA.