Farm to School

WATCH: Teaching Kids About Where Their Food Comes From

Daniel Klein | Posted 04.29.2012

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Daniel Klein

In this week's episode we visit a school garden and take a class on radishes with Ashley Rouse of Georgia Organics. Kids are in a lot of our videos - ...

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USDA Says Farm-To-School Programs Are 'Snowballing' Across Country

AP | By STEVE KARNOWSKI | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Farm to School Lunch, Public School Food, Usda School Lunches, School Lunch, Farm to School, School Cafeteria Food, School Lunches, Food News

MINNEAPOLIS -- The popularity of farm-to-school programs that put locally grown food on cafeteria trays has exploded in recent years – so much s...

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The One True Dead Food & Dining Trend

Food & Wine | Posted 08.03.2011

Read More: Food Trends, Farm to Table, Locavore Movement, Farm to Cafeteria, Dead Food Trends, Frank Bruni, Farm to School, Locavore, Food News

[T]here is a ubiquitous phrase that we're very ready to say good-bye to: farm-to-everything. (Credit to Frank Bruni, the New York Times's newest Op-Ed...

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WATCH: A Farm To Table Summer Camp

Daniel Klein | Posted 06.13.2011

Read More: Daniel Klein, Youth Farm, Farm to School, Local Food, Kids, Sustainable Food, Perennial Plate, Learning, Recipe, Food News
Daniel Klein

Youth farm isn't your typical summer camp playing basketball or swimming, instead, these kids learn how to garden, cook (and of course play games). I...

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Happy Anniversary Let's Move! FoodCorps Recruiting First Class of Service Members

Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Let's Move, School Garden, Americorps, Farm to School, Childhood Obesity, School Lunch, Foodcorps, Food News
Debra Eschmeyer

This week, FoodCorps, a brand new and much anticipated national service organization, opens applications for its first class of service members.

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Stick a Fork in It: Pass The Child Nutrition Act

Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Thanksgiving, Farm to School, Food Politics, School Lunches, Child Nutrition Act, Healthy Kids, Healthy Hunger-Free Kids Act, Childrens-Nutrition, Food News
Debra Eschmeyer

While the resulting stuffed turkey that is the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids' Act, is not perfect, it's pretty darn good.

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Dinner in the Desert

Sarah Newman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Whole Foods Market, Salad Bars, Whole Foods, Grist, Corn, Ed Bruske, Farmers Markets, Washington DC, Malnutrition, Congress, Tom Philpott, Will Allen, Obesity, Farm to School, Child Nutrition Reauthorization, Soy, School Lunch, Childhood Obesity, Undernutrition, Food Deserts, Junk Food, Artisanal, Soda, Washington Post, Ann Cooper, Food News
Sarah Newman

We all bear the consequences if these children don't eat.

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Let's Move Child Nutrition

Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Debra Eschmeyer

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

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Jamie Oliver: Stirring Up a Food Fight

Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Debra Eschmeyer

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!

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It Takes a Rocket Scientist?

Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Debra Eschmeyer

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 h...

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State of the Union's School Lunch: Nutrition as National Defense and Fiscal Health

Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: School Food, Lunch Reform, Farm to School, State of the Union, Child Nutrition Act, Healthy Living News
Debra Eschmeyer

We, the voting public, need to find our voice and let our elected officials know that child nutrition in general -- and the National School Lunch Program in particular -- is a priority.

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Why I Go Slow, or Why Kids Should Care About Food

Jerusha Klemperer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Chickens, Asparagus, Nutrition, Football, Cooking, Farmers Markets, Pesto, Farm-to-School, Green News
Jerusha Klemperer

Is it possible to get someone to care about food? To put time into learning how to cook? And are the reasons a kid should care about food any different from why an adult should care about food?

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FarmsReach.com: Local Produce Site Connects Restaurants, Schools To Farms

npr.org | Morning Edition | Posted 05.25.2011

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With the popularity of locally grown vegetables soaring, a new Web site hopes to make it easier for chefs to find farmers in their area and have produ...

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Transforming the Tray: What Kids Eat Means Something

Debra Eschmeyer | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ann-Cooper, One Tray, Whole Foods, Farm-to-School, Parent Earth, Obama School Speech, School Lunch, Green News
Debra Eschmeyer

The Child Nutrition Act, which expires Sept. 30, determines what more than 30 million children eat at school five days a week, 180 days a year, making school meals a critical entry point for improving children's health.

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Feeding Kids (Real) Food

Wesley Epplin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Lynn Peemoeller, Slow Food, School Food FOCUS, School Lunch Talk, Time for Lunch, Child Nutrition Act, Mary Ellen Caron, Eat-In, Slow Food USA, Slow Food Chicago, Farm to School, Daley Plaza, Josh Viertel, Chicago News
Wesley Epplin

Giving our kids healthy fresh foods at school stands to set an example of how to form lasting eating habits that can truly have a positive impact on their health.

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Montana Food Efforts a Good Model for Hard Times

Rose Hayden-Smith | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Good Food, Montana Food Corps, Local Food Systems, Farm to Cafeteria, Food, Farm-to-School, Tom Vilsack Agriculture Secretary, Great Depression, Ecotrust, Oregon, Portland Oregon, Green News
Rose Hayden-Smith

Local food systems -- including farm-to-institution programs -- can mean real money for local farmers, local food processors and local/state economies.

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Farm-To-School Programs: Growing a Healthier America

Isabel Cowles | Posted 05.25.2011

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Isabel Cowles

Food needs a piece of that seven billion dollar pie. For fortunate Americans, food is as much a source of entertainment as it is nourishment. Yet desp...

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