The New Jersey Department of Agriculture visited Texas Avenue School in Atlantic City to highlight a FoodCorps-led, school-wide cafeteria taste test during the 8th annual Jersey Fresh Farm to School Week, Sept. 24-28.

NEW YORK, NY – SEPTEMBER 19, 2018—Today, C&S Wholesale Grocers, the largest wholesale grocery supply company in the U.S., joins FoodCorps, a national nonprofit that connects kids to healthy food in schools, to commemorate National Hunger Action Month by announcing the winner and runners-up of the annual Victory Growers essay contest.

“We are trying to build on the good work FoodCorps has done here since 2011 and expand that to a wider geography and wider number of kids,” Norwood said. “We are very pleased and very excited to have Leah here. I think she will make contributions in other ways to the community.”

FoodCorps AmeriCorps service member Malia Demers introduces kids to the wonder of the garden. “We’re always thinking of ways to have kids slow down and observe,” Demers said. “Tasting is a good way to slow down and observe how food tastes.”

New York, NY, September 13, 2018—FoodCorps, an AmeriCorps grantee that works to connect kids to healthy food in schools, announced today that Zeke Smith will join its Executive Team to lead FoodCorps’ nationwide service program as the Vice President of Programs.

The Urban School Food Alliance, a coalition of the nation’s 11 largest urban school districts, and FoodCorps, an AmeriCorps grantee organization that focuses on building healthy school food environments, announced this week a partnership between the two nonprofits. The formal agreement aims to impact the quality of meals in school cafeterias across the nation with the goal of improving student health and academic performance.

While continuing to work independently on day-to-day operations, as partners, both groups will collaborate on initiatives to further increase food quality in school meals and improve student health and academic performance across 11 of the largest school districts in the country.

In this new video, you’ll hear from both kids and adults in FoodCorps partner schools in California, Georgia, and New York about how FoodCorps service members has helped transform their cafeterias and classrooms.

Food is so plentiful for so many in the United States that it’s easy to take for granted, and difficult to get the message across of the importance of reducing waste. As with most lessons worth learning, the earlier the message can be put across the better.

“It’s good for shade, sitting with friends and talking or play games. Or you can sit by yourself and write something personal in your diary,” said eight-year-old Gabby while talking about her experiences in the River Garden at Seaton Elementary School.