Recent News and Highlights
MPS is rolling out new salad bars to school lunchrooms! Learn more about serving delicious, healthy food by watching this video.
If Susan Roberson, Richmond Public Schools Nutrition director, gets her way, students in the city's schools will be seeing healthier more nutritious fresh fruits and vegetables on their lunch trays.
Our brand new Growing Minds video premiered on the big screen at our Farm to School Institute at the North Carolina Center for Health and Wellness at UNC Asheville.
It was a celebration of locally grown food as kids around the state took part in "Virginia Farm-to-School Week." School cafeterias throughout the state were featuring locally grown tomatoes, grass-fed beef, sweet potatoes and apples, said the Food Hub'...
School officials and Alaska farmers are raving about a program that's putting substantial state money toward school meals for the first time, saying the $3 million grant has improved student diets across the state and given challenged growers a reliable market. School...
As part of the Northeast Iowa Food and Fitness Initiative, students at Crestwood High School attended a training at the Dairy Center in Calmar, IA to enable them to teach younger students in their district about eating healthy. More than 60 high school students are...
Children and teens in states with strong laws restricting the sale of unhealthy snack foods and beverages in school gained less weight over a three-year period than those living in states with no such policies, according to a study published online today in the journal...
Cafeteria Man is a story of positive movement that shows what's possible in our nation's schools. It’s about the aspiration of activists and citizens coming together to change the way kids eat at school. It’s about overhauling a dysfunctional...
Fresh salad greens being grown at the Willmar Community Greenhouse located on the MinnWest Campus are now being served to students at the Willmar High School.
As winter turns to spring during March, kids in Wood County schools are digging into the fruits of one of Wisconsin's most bountiful fall harvests: cranberries. More than half of the entire world's supply of cranberries comes from Wisconsin, and Wood County...
The local foods movement in the United States has grown by leaps and bounds over the last decade, but still represents a small portion of the overall food system. How can local food systems continue to grow and remain sustainable? Every five years, Congress revisits...
More Minnesota students are finding locally grown foods as they peruse the choices in the cafeteria lunch line, thanks to the Farm to School program from the Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy (IATP). When IATP started the Farm to School program in...
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