The scene was familiar: families talked while stirring sauces and chopping vegetables, but instead of being in their respective homes, the cooks were in a middle-school classroom learning to cook healthy meals. 

Who said tacos can’t be healthy? Families were encouraged to try healthy, new ways of cooking at a taco night at the Columbia Falls Junior High.

The USDA recently issued a Request for Applications (RFA) for the second round of funding for the Food and Agriculture Service Learning Program (FASLP). Applications are due by June 4, 2019.

Arizona service member Brooke Kahl and cafeteria staff coordinated “Try Day,” a new initiative at her school where students taste new, healthy foods every month and vote on whether to include them on the school’s menu.

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro visited Paige Petit’s school in Middletown, Connecticut. Together, they led a black bean and corn salsa taste test with the students.

Second-graders at Boland Elementary School in Springfield, Massachusetts learned how to grow their own food with FoodCorps Service Member Kali Ransom.

FoodCorps service member Kali Ransom was awarded a national grant that funded the build-out of Boland Elementary School’s new school garden!

Sweetgreen co-founder Nathaniel Ru shares how the partnership with FoodCorps to reimagine school cafeterias aligns with sweetgreen’s mission to inspire healthier communities by connecting people to real food.

A group of states, led by New York, filed a lawsuit against the USDA’s rollbacks of school nutrition standards. FoodCorps’ Co-Founder and Chief Strategist, Cecily Upton, contributed a supportive statement for the New York Attorney General’s press release.

FoodCorps and Sweetgreen announced a strategic partnership to reimagine the school cafeteria experience. Sweetgreen has pledged $1 million for the development of this initiative over the next two years.