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Colorado Team Nutrition Makes School Wellness a Success

October 16, 2015 Ileana Alamo, Digital Media Specialist, Food and Nutrition Service

The following guest blog describes how one state education department used a USDA Team Nutrition grant to develop training to help schools implement programs that promote student wellness and to meet updated meal standards. By Heather Hauswirth, RD, Program Specialist, Office of School Nutrition...

Food and Nutrition

Organic on the World Stage: Expo Milan 2015

October 16, 2015 Anne L. Alonzo, Agricultural Marketing Service Administrator

Across the country and around the world, more people are looking for organic options at their local markets. Thanks to the remarkable growth in the number of USDA certified organic operations, which now number more than 27,800 worldwide, consumers have more choices than ever. My agency, USDA’s...

Conservation Initiatives

Investing the Tools to Learn

October 16, 2015 USDA Rural Development State Director Dave Conine

As a society we do not expect children to learn to write without paper, we do not expect them to learn to cook without access to food, and we certainly would never expect them to learn to read without books. It’s simple: in order to learn, one must have the proper tools and experiences to do so. At...

Initiatives Rural

Tales from a School Food Service Director: It's all about the Brand

October 16, 2015 Ileana Alamo, Digital Media Specialist, Food and Nutrition Service

This guest blog showcases the success story of a school food service director in an upper-class suburb of Boston. The director discusses some of the creative methods her school meal program uses to boost participation and, thereby, promote health and nutrition in their district. By Gail Koutroubas...

Food and Nutrition

Apalachicola National Forest Hosts International Fire Professionals to Share Ideas on Wildfires, Healthy Forests

December 31, 2012 Susan Blake, National Forests in Florida, U.S. Forest Service

More than 8,000 miles from home, fire management officers from Australia and New Zealand recently visited the Apalachicola National Forest in Florida to share techniques and strategies in the use of prescribed fire. “We see how the use of frequent fire intervals helps manage the different fuel types...

Health and Safety

The Thousand-Acre Woods

December 31, 2012 Jamie Johnson, NRCS Kentucky

For Harlan County, Ky. landowners Jim and Joanne Corum, conservation is a way of life. For the Corums, making the choice to enroll their land in the Conservation Stewardship Program (CSP)—one of the largest private-land conservation programs of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)...

Conservation

Secretary's Column: USDA’s Accomplishments in 2012

December 28, 2012 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

Over the course of 2012, farm families and rural communities faced a number of challenges. A record drought impacted much of the country and many were impacted by a major hurricane, flooding and severe storms. However, thanks to the resilience of rural Americans, our communities are still going...

Conservation Rural

FAS Program Helps Provide Qualified Teachers in Malawi

December 27, 2012 Kate Snipes, Agricultural Counselor, U.S. Embassy Nairobi, Kenya

School children in the rural communities of Malawi will soon have access to more qualified primary school educators, thanks in part to the Foreign Agricultural Service’s (FAS) Food for Progress (FFP) program.

Initiatives Food and Nutrition Trade

Value-Added Grants Help Minnesota Pork Farm Meet Growing Demand

December 26, 2012 Adam Czech, Minnesota USDA Public Information Officer

“We think that fresh air and sunshine are the best health guarantee.” That’s the quote you’ll see after opening a brochure from Pastures A Plenty Farm. Spend an hour with the VanDerPol family and you quickly understand that those words are much more than just a marketing slogan. It’s the family’s...

Food and Nutrition Farming Rural

No Más Hambre: Un llamado a la acción comunitaria

December 21, 2012 Roxana Barillas, Subdirectora del Centro para Organizaciones Religiosas y Comunitarias del Departamento de Agricultura de EE.UU.

La cumbre NO MAS HAMBRE celebrada recientemente en Washington DC para crear conciencia sobre el hambre en la comunidad latina reunió a líderes gubernamentales, grupos sin fines de lucro, empresas y miembros de la comunidad para hablar sobre soluciones a un problema endémico que a menudo pasa...

Spanish Food and Nutrition