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Breakfast – Making a Big Difference in Milwaukee

March 31, 2011 Tim English, Deputy Regional Administrator, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Midwest Region

There is much we adults can learn from children, and one of them is being able to appreciate the simple things. I was at the Milwaukee Sign Language School in Milwaukee for a celebration of School Breakfast Week. I was thrilled by the students’ delight as Active Apple (Milwaukee Public Schools’...

Food and Nutrition

In Energy Security, Rural America Leads the Way

March 31, 2011 Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack

This week, President Obama called on our nation to put an end – once and for all – to our dependence on foreign oil. He laid out a plan for a more secure future by producing energy here at home, and investing in efficient vehicles and buildings. You can read more about it and watch a video of the...

Energy

Hmong Farmers Extend the Chilly Massachusetts Growing Season

March 31, 2011 Diane Baedeker Petit, NRCS Massachusetts

The near-record snowfall in Massachusetts this winter did not deter farmer Pa Thao. In fact, it strengthened his resolve to make sure that nothing happened to the high tunnel that he put up last fall, so that it would be there when he’s ready to plant mustard greens and pea tendrils in the early...

Conservation