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Welcome to the Skillet, where we share stories about the power of food in schools. Read on for more about our work.

FoodCorps alum Becca Sanchez poses with other members and alumni at a cafeteria event.
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Lunch Today, Leaders Tomorrow: 15 Years of FoodCorps

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An illustration representing highlights in 15 years of school food policy, including free school meals legislation, farm to school progress, and colorful trays of school food.
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Policy Spotlight: 15 Years That Shaped School Meals

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Signage welcoming visitors to The Peoples' Farm in Arizona, dedicated to revitalizing Native foodways; photos of the three authors of the piece along the right side.

“Farm to school has become a means for the reclamation of Native American identi

Stories, 15th anniversary

From the Archive: Farm to School in Native Communities (2015)

Photos of Stacy Dean, Maya Feller, and Jeffrey W. Ubben, the newest members of the FoodCorps Board of Directors.

We’re thrilled to welcome these industry leaders to FoodCorps.

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FoodCorps Welcomes Three New Board Members

The FoodCorps logo on a two-toned golden background. The Skillet is FoodCorps' hub for news, stories, Kindred updates, and resources.

FoodCorps will support school nutrition work in the Houston Independent School District.

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FoodCorps Announces Partnership in Houston, Texas

A collage of images from the FoodCorps archive illustrating Casey Haggerty's essay about hunger during snow days at her schools in Petoskey, Michigan.

A 2019 story from Michigan about when hunger hits hardest.

Stories, 15th anniversary

From the Archive: Snow Days, Hungry Days (2019)

An illustration representing highlights in 15 years of school food policy, including free school meals legislation, farm to school progress, and colorful trays of school food.

15 years of progress, challenges, and advocacy in school food policy.

Stories, 15th anniversary

Policy Spotlight: 15 Years That Shaped School Meals

The FoodCorps logo on a two-toned golden background. The Skillet is FoodCorps' hub for news, stories, Kindred updates, and resources.

The program will invest millions in school food improvements.

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FoodCorps Encouraged by USDA and HHS ‘Harvest to Hallways’ Initiative

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3 Ways School Food Is Evolving
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3 Ways School Food Is Evolving

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Hannah Moore, FoodCorps member in Maine, talks to students at a lunch room table

From the school cafeteria to national recognition, Hannah embodies what it means

June 19, 2026

When President Obama Calls Your Name: Meet Hannah Moore, FoodCorps Member

Honoring Juneteenth Through Food, Joy, and Reflection

FoodCorps staff share what Juneteenth means to them.

June 10, 2026

Honoring Juneteenth Through Food, Joy, and Reflection

An overhead photo of a child with dark hair and a plaid shirt sitting at a lunch table and scooping meat into a taco shell. SNAP helps make sure kids can afford school meals.

How this public health program affects us all.

August 06, 2026

SNAP 101: What to Know About SNAP

A student selects options from a school meals salad bar

A complex process with a simple bottom line: well-fed kids who are ready to lear

June 03, 2026

How Are School Meals Funded?

Curt Ellis in academic regalia delivers a commencement address from a podium featuring the Tufts University plaque.

"Food sits at the place where learning and doing meet." Curt Ellis's commencement

June 02, 2026

Called to a Life of Nourishment: A Commencement Address

Two students hold small lettuce plants in soil in their hands, connecting food in school to the environment

The way we teach matters as much as the way we feed.

April 22, 2026

3 Ways Food in School Helps the Environment

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Check out FoodCorps’ resources to bring food education and nourishing meals to your community. Find more resources using the Type filter (“Resources”) at the top of this page.

De’Ondre’s Strawberries
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De’Ondre’s Strawberries

Fairview Elementary can be a tough place to be a kid. Tucked away behind Main Street in High Point, North Carolina—ranked first in the nation for food insecurity—it’s a place where families learn to survive by holding on tightly to what they have. Amidst the vacant lots and abandoned furniture factories, Fairview’s school garden stands &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/deondres-strawberries/">Continued</a>

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The Beet: Jerusha’s got it.

What you are doing is amazing&#8230; Who are you? Jerusha Klemperer What do you do? I am the Communications Director for FoodCorps. Where are you from? I am from New York City, less than a quarter mile away from FoodCorps headquarters. What was your favorite meal growing up? My favorite meal was a version of &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/the-beet-jerushas-got-it/">Continued</a>

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The Color of Food

This spring Natasha Bowens, an urban farmer and the blogger behind Brown Girl Farming and the multimedia project The Color of Food, published a travelogue, of sorts, that chronicles her time spent driving across the country talking to farmers of color. The book is extraordinary. In giving voice to these practitioners, it ends up giving &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/the-color-of-food/">Continued</a>

Growing Community: Looking back on two years of FoodCorps service in Kalispell
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Growing Community: Looking back on two years of FoodCorps service in Kalispell

This year in Kalispell it seemed the calendar turned straight from winter to summer. The early thaw lifted a thick blanket of snow from our school gardens and left them bursting with green garlic shoots in what felt like a matter of days. This early summer has been a bit of a mixed blessing; it &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/growing-community-looking-back-on-two-years-of-foodcorps-service-in-kalispell/">Continued</a>

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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 &hellip; <a href="https://foodcorps.org/first-certified-school-garden-on-arizona-reservation/">Continued</a>