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Year: 2014

Sweetgreen Selects FoodCorps as its Official Charity Partner

1% of All Sales Made Through sweetgreen Rewards App to Benefit FoodCorps; sweetgreen to join FoodCorps Corporate Council. May 01, 2014 – As part of its mission to educate children about healthy eating and nutrition, sweetgreen, the much-loved collection of organic, farm-to-table salad shops, has selected FoodCorps as its official charity partner. FoodCorps is a … Continued

The First Bite: Encouraging Eaters with Autism Spectrum Disorder

There’s nothing more satisfying than hearing a student proclaim, “This is DELICIOUS,” with a mouth dyed bright pink from a beet smoothie, or watching them devour the roots and the greens of a raw baby turnip without being prompted. As a FoodCorps Service Member at Magnolia Speech School, a specialized school for children with communication … Continued

Yes! Magazine: Service Member Tasia Yamamura on Wai?anae Youth Garden & Her Love of Breadfruit

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.

Good Food Jobs Features NJ Service Member Lauren Nixon

“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.”

Farm to School: Served Up Three Different Ways

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