The beginning of a new year is often time for self-reflection and resolutions: lose weight, eat better, and spend more time with your family. But what about considering a larger commitment dedicated to service? Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. once said,

"Life's most persistent and urgent question is: 'What are...

One year ago this week, the Obama administration launched Let's Move, an initiative to solve the problem of childhood obesity within a generation. It's an ambitious -- but critically important -- goal.

In the last 30 years, the percentage of American children who are overweight or obese has...

We are preparing for the most thoroughly planned meal in America, and it's not Thanksgiving dinner. It's school lunch.

Once every five years school meals are put on the Congressional kitchen's front burner through reauthorization of the Child Nutrition Act. In the process of cooking up this legislation, school...

Can you show the Mom-in-Chief how motivated we are to pass the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act?

Back in April I attended the White House Childhood Obesity Summit on behalf of the National Farm to School Network as reported here. The purpose of the...

When President Obama established a "Presidential task force on childhood obesity" in February, Grist's Tom Laskawy wondered whether our nation's first federal food policy council had quietly sprung into being. In a food policy council, the key stakeholders of a region's food system come together...

Jamie Oliver's Food Revolution is cooking up more than home made meals from fresh ingredients. The show has already stirred up deeply seeded emotions about school food feeding systems...all before the first episode airs tonight!

Conversations and critiques over Jamie Oliver's 6-part U.S. reality TV show has created...

For years I have been saying that it doesn't take a rocket scientist to support Farm to School because of its common sense solution to serving local high quality food in schools and connecting children to where food comes from, but lo and behold, it does!

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Don't make us tighten our belts on child nutrition programs while the girth of the nation grows. The government spends $1 million per soldier in Afghanistan, yet barely spends $1 on the food in a school lunch.

When President Obama addresses the nation in his State of the Union,...

Michelle Obama, Education Secretary Arne Duncan, "Renegade Lunch Lady" Ann Cooper, USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack, and countless others have been drawing attention to a critical component of our health and educational system: lunch.

Our kids are taught the food pyramid and to eat the colors of the rainbow, but...