The First Bite: Encouraging Eaters with Autism Spectrum Disorder
Creative lessons can encourage all kinds of learners to try nourishing foods.
NEW Food Education in the Classroom Microcredential for K-5 educators! Next session: Sept.7-Oct. 18.
Creative lessons can encourage all kinds of learners to try nourishing foods.
First Lady Michelle Obama, a group of FoodCorps founders and service members, and children from D.C. public schools came together to help plant the White House Kitchen Garden on April 2nd.
FoodCorps to Join First Lady Michelle Obama at Sixth Annual White House Kitchen Garden Planting
Mar 31, 2014 – FoodCorps has been selected to join First Lady Michelle Obama at the 6th Annual White House Garden planting.
FOODCORPS LAUNCHES CORPORATE COUNCIL
Mar 06, 2014 – FoodCorps Unites Industry Leaders to Champion Healthy School Food Environments
Wai?anae, Hawai’i is a place of abundant natural beauty—and home to some of the highest rates of diabetes and cardiovascular disease in the state. In an effort to help community members reconnect to the land and reclaim their health, FoodCorps service members like Tasia Yamamura are teaching young people how to grow and prepare real, healthy foods. This is Tasia’s story.
“Education is the gateway to food for so many of us, and Lauren is no exception. Lauren describes the alienation that so many of us feel when we attempt to make a difference in our own diets, by ourselves, and we couldn’t agree more that every individual needs a ‘tribe’ to support them, and the food movement as a whole.”
FoodCorps is out with it’s first BuzzFeed list. Kids say the darndest things about food. Here’s some of the things they say to service members around the nation.
Back when the yellow tamaracks and aspens gave Western Montana a shocking amount of fall color, FoodCorps members from around the state convened at the jubilant DIY get-together that is the annual conference for the Alternative Energy Resources Organization, or AERO. There, sometime between the pie contest and the square dance, Demetrius Fassas of Ennis, … Continued
Written by James Tolleson, service member in Greenwood On December 2, 2013, a group of farmers, food service staff, educators, community organizers and others gathered in Pearl, Mississippi, for the 2nd Annual Mississippi Farm To Cafeteria Conference, hosted by the Mississippi Food Policy Council. After the conference, I caught up with Rose Tate, a Mississippi Delta-Native and … Continued
New Mexico Service Member Tae-Young Nam has been working to increase kids’ connection to food, putting smiles on the faces of the kids, their families, and himself.