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Raymore Peculiar Achieves Salad Bar Success with "Rainbow Days"

September 16, 2014 Wendy Moraskie, USDA Food and Nutrition Service

The following guest blog is part of our Cafeteria Stories series, highlighting the efforts of hard working school nutrition professionals who are dedicated to making the healthy choice the easy choice at schools across the country. We thank them for sharing their stories! By Wendy Moraskie, USDA...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

USDA Plant Experts Help Cemetery Tame Slope with Native Grasses

September 15, 2014 Emily Murray, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Missouri

Pristine landscaping covers the 355 acres of Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery in St. Louis. On a day where caretakers dutifully trim the grass and care for the about 200,000 headstones marking the final resting place of veterans and their families, three plant specialists with the USDA’s Natural...

Conservation

NRCS Assistance Helps Local Food Pantry Provide Year-Round Produce for Low-Income Families

September 03, 2014 Charlie Rahm, NRCS Missouri

For the past several years, USDA has been making a concerted effort to increase consumer awareness of food origins. That’s an easy task in Greenview, Missouri, where patrons of the Share the Harvest Food Pantry need only look in the parking lot to see where their fresh produce comes from...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

"The Last Frontier" is on the Cutting Edge of On-Farm Technology

August 21, 2014 Sue Benz, Alaska State Statistician, National Agricultural Statistics Service

The Census of Agriculture is the most complete account of U.S. farms and ranches and the people who operate them. Every Thursday USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service will highlight new Census data and the power of the information to shape the future of American agriculture. Alaska may be...

Energy Conservation Technology

Chinese High Tunnel Part of Innovation at Missouri Teaching Farm

August 12, 2014 Charlie Rahm, Natural Resources Conservation Service, Missouri

You can get just about anything you want at Millsap Farms, including an education about market farming. Curtis Millsap estimates that he, his family and a crew of interns feed about 200 families on 2.5 acres of his 20-acre farm near Springfield, Mo. While another seven acres of the farm sometimes...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

Thousands of Reasons to Celebrate National Farmers Market Week

August 04, 2014 Anne L. Alonzo, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator

The 15 th Annual National Farmers Market Week is off to a great start! Farmers markets connect and unite people living in urban and rural environments, provide access to fresh, healthy and delicious foods, and—best of all—put a face to the farmers and ranchers who produce their wonderful wares. We...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Delivering Along the Food Value Chain

July 10, 2014 Arthur Neal, Deputy Administrator, AMS Transportation & Marketing Program

A recent trip back home to Louisiana sparked memories of a simpler time when old trucks full of fresh produce rumbled down dusty roads to deliver goods to the local market. The 2012 Census of Agriculture tells us that 50,000 farmers and ranchers nationwide are now selling to local retailers and that...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Missouri Makes Summer Meals Work!

July 08, 2014 Audrey Rowe, USDA Food and Nutrition Service Administrator

This spring I had the opportunity to visit several summer feeding sites to witness the efforts of local organizations and states agencies so instrumental in the success of USDA’s Summer Food Service Program. I had the chance to join our essential partners during summer meals kick-off events...

Food and Nutrition

USDA Rural Development Housing Programs: The Faces Behind the Numbers

June 17, 2014 Tony Hernandez, USDA Administrator for Rural Housing Programs

As part of USDA’s ongoing celebration of National Homeownership Month, I visited several communities bordering Illinois and Missouri last week to meet some of the people whose lives have been changed with homeownership. Joe and Heather Sumner had been renters in Highland, IL, who needed more space...

Rural

Looking Back While Preparing to Move Forward with Summer Meals

June 04, 2014 Kevin Concannon, Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition, and Consumer Services

This week is National Summer Food Service Program Kickoff Week, an important time to emphasize USDA’s commitment to ensure children and teens have access to safe, nutritious meals when school lets out. Through the Summer Food Service Program, federal assistance is provided for state agencies and non...

Food and Nutrition
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