FoodCorps Responds to USDA Cuts to Local Food Spending
First Certified School Garden on Arizona Reservation
“I would rather have my daughter eat what you guys grow out there than the food I get off a truck,” said Georgiana Adson, Tuba City’s School Food Service Director and the mother of one of our Edible School Garden students. With that she approved our request to pursue Garden to Cafeteria certification for our … Continued
Cherokee Choices and FoodCorps North Carolina Help Cherokee Restore Healthy Food Heritage
The Cherokee come from a tradition of health and agriculture, but today Cherokee adults are twice as likely to be obese as other North Carolinians. Our local partner Cherokee Choices and it’s farm to school program are working to empower the Cherokee to take back their health.
Edible Brooklyn: FoodCorps May Grow into New York City this Fall
This fall, pending funding, we’ll be partnering with Edible Schoolyard NYC to connect New Yorkers to real food and help them grow up healthy!
C&S Wholesale Grocers Announces National Support of FoodCorps
C&S Wholesale Grocers Announces National Support of FoodCorps
Mar 17, 2015 – Commitment Will Expand Healthier School Food Programs
Service Member Tasia Yamamura Writes about Youth Empowerment and Politics of Food in Hawai’i for Food First
“Growing and eating our own food is a radical act,” asserts Tasia Yamamura. Read her piece to learn why Hawaiians growing and eating their own food is so radical.
FoodCorps Co-founder Selected for Leadership Role at The White House
FoodCorps Co-founder Selected for Leadership Role at The White House
Jan 08, 2015 – Debra Eschmeyer has been selected as Executive Director of the First Lady’s Let’s Move! initiative, and as the President’s Senior Policy Advisor on Nutrition
FoodCorps Co-founder Debra Eschmeyer Selected for Leadership Role at White House
Deb Eschmeyer, co-founder of FoodCorps, has been named by the White House as Executive Director of Let’s Move! and Senior Policy Advisor for Nutrition Policy.
Service Member Jen Urban Teaches With, Learns From Kalo [Slow Food USA]
FoodCorps Hawai’i Service Member Jen Urban knows how difficult it is to prepare meals with kids in schools, but that doesn’t stop her.
FoodCorps Service Member Brings Magic of Squash Alive in Putnam, CT [Cooking Light]
The brave taste testers of Mrs. Martel’s Kindergarten class take on a new vegetable: squash. And this Cooking Light post also includes a recipe for squash fries!
The Walmart Foundation Commits to Growing Healthy Schools
The Walmart Foundation Commits to Growing Healthy Schools
Oct 13, 2014 – A grant of $1.2 million helps FoodCorps dig deeper.