Making Free School Meals a Reality in New Mexico
Inside the push by lawmakers and organizers to nourish New Mexico’s kids.
Sharing Indigenous Cooking Traditions in New Mexico
Teaching food traditions through Magia de Maíz.
Lights Out, Bellies Full
Tara McDaniel writes about the scramble to teach, feed, and support kids during a rare schoolwide blackout.
How Farm to School is Connecting Michigan Kids to Healthy Food
In Michigan, service members, local farmers, legislators and a school chef are teaming up to get kids excited about healthy, local foods.
Report: How Schools Have Worked Together to Feed Kids During COVID-19
We wanted to learn how school communities are keeping kids fed during these challenging times. Here are the mid-year findings.
How Camden City School District is Persevering Through the Pandemic to Provide Nutrition Education to Students
Students at Camden City School District in Camden, N.J. continue to learn about healthy eating at home, despite the pandemic.
How FoodCorps Helps Kids Across the Nation Develop Healthy Eating Habits
Erica Curry, Director of Education at FoodCorps, talks with The Beet about how to encourage healthy eating at home while schools are shut down.
How to Get Kids to Eat Their Vegetables in the Lunch Room
In 2009, Curt Ellis co-founded FoodCorps to provide young people with a platform to impact the U.S. food system—starting with schools.
RDN Spotlight: Morgan McGhee, MPH, RD
Morgan McGhee, FoodCorps’ Director of School Nutrition Leadership, was recently featured on the Diversify Dietetics blog. Check out a snippet from her interview.
Snow Days
“For every snow day after, any residual, childhood excitement I felt at the prospect of a day off was tempered by a twisting feeling in my gut for the kids who would not get a decent meal that day.”