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National School Lunch Week 2011
National School Lunch Week 2011 is happening from October 10-14th! Help your school get involved to make better decisions in the lunch room and teach youth about the importance of knowing how their food gets from the farm to their … Continue reading
Support USDA Efforts to Ensure Healthy School Meals!
School lunch reform is taking over the nation one step at a time. With President Obama’s Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act signed into law in December, people are starting to realize that even Washington is beginning to understand the epidemic sweeping … Continue reading
Obama’s Healthy Food Financing Initiative
With the Let’s Move! Initiative sweeping the nation people are becoming more aware of the importance of fresh fruits and vegetables. Just recently the Obama Administration released details of an over $400 million Healthy Food Financing Initiative, which will bring … Continue reading
Community of Gardeners
Throughout Washington, D.C., people of all ages, backgrounds and nationalities are gardening side by side, growing vegetables, fruits and flowers in community gardens. Some are looking for basic sustenance, others for a way to remember their homelands, still others for … Continue reading
School Lunch Week in Review
It seems that throughout the country many schools recognized the federally declared National School Lunch Week of October 11th to the 15th, 2010. Efforts stemmed from grassroots organizations to The U.S. Department of Agriculture and of course The First Lady. It’s beginning to feel … Continue reading
National School Lunch Week
Many of you may know, as declared by congress on October 9, 1962 (Public Law 87-780), has designated the week beginning on the second Sunday in October each year as “National School Lunch Week.” Barack Obama officially endorsed this week … Continue reading