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Active Living by Design Helps Get Communities Moving

November 21, 2011 Max Finberg, Director, Faith Based and Community Initiatives

Three community supporters of Let’s Move are moving towards healthier lives. Inspired by First Lady Michelle Obama’s Let’s Move Faith and Communities initiative, these communities are leading the way in creative solutions to health issues through mobile grocery markets, convenient bicycle...

Food and Nutrition Initiatives

Grant Makes Big Difference In Tribe’s Quest To Bring Nutritious Traditional Foods Back To The People

November 21, 2011 Dianna Jenning, Rural Development Special Projects Coordinator, Arizona

The Apache people were hunters and gatherers. Their food offered much variety…wild herbs, fruit, berries, wild game and pinto beans. They also relied on hunting, mainly wild turkeys, rabbits, deer, bears, and buffalo. Once settled into villages, they began to grow their own food, primarily corn and...

Rural

Disfrute los Días Festivos: Prepare Comidas Inocuas y Saludables

November 21, 2011 Dra. Janey Thornton, subsecretaria comisionada de Alimentos, Nutrición y Servicio al Consumidor del USDA.

Serie especial para los días festivos- 4to blog de 5 ¿Está buscando una sabrosa receta con vegetales que pueda incluir en su menú para la comida festiva? La Dra. Hagen y yo con gusto podemos ayudarle! Les proveemos recetas para comidas festivas, de bajo costo, con consejos sencillos para un manejo...

Spanish Food and Nutrition Health and Safety

Enjoy the Holidays: Preparing Healthy and Safe Meals!

November 21, 2011 Dr. Elisabeth Hagen, USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety and Inspection Service and Dr. Janey Thornton, USDA Deputy Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services,

Special holiday series – Blog 4 of 5 Looking for a tasty vegetable for your holiday menu? USDA Under Secretary for Food Safety and I are happy to help! We are providing low-cost holiday recipes with simple food safety tips to help you prepare healthy and safe holiday meals. So far we’ve posted...

Food and Nutrition Health and Safety

Florida Ranchers Help the Everglades. Coral Reefs and Lake Okeechobee

November 21, 2011 Gail Hendricks, NRCS, Florida

Over 100 years ago, public agencies and private landowners began to transform central and south Florida. Then an extensive system of water management implemented in the 1930s and 1940s, including irrigation, flood control, canals and other structures, interrupted historic water flows to Lake...

Conservation

Tracking Turkey Traffic in New Hampshire

November 21, 2011 Jim Barrett, APHIS Public Affairs, Riverdale, MD

USDA wildlife biologists in New Hampshire have been hard at work keeping wild turkeys out of harm’s way.

Animals Plants

Tweet with Us before You Gobble! Join USDA for a Thanksgiving Food Safety Twitter Chat

November 21, 2011 Catherine Cochran, Public Affairs Specialist, Food Safety and Inspection Service

Tomorrow, November 22, celebrity chef Ingrid Hoffman (known for her show, Simply Delicioso) will be joining USDA’s Meat and Poultry Hotline and a Food and Drug Administration food safety advisor to ease concerns for anyone hosting a Thanksgiving meal. Still haven’t bought your turkey and wondering...

Health and Safety

Key Partnerships Help Fewer Kids Go Hungry in Arkansas

November 21, 2011 Bill Ludwig, regional administrator, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Southwest Region

I was privileged to be part of a recent celebration in Little Rock, Arkansas. Arkansas Governor Mike Beebe hosted a press conference with Share Our Strength and the Arkansas Hunger Relief Alliance to announce the achievements of the first year of their state-wide campaign to end childhood hunger...

Food and Nutrition