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USDA Grants to Help Farmers, Entrepreneurs and Retailers Market Local Foods

October 02, 2015 Arthur Neal, Agricultural Marketing Service Transportation and Marketing Program Deputy Administrator

Thanks to a recent grant from USDA, the Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade, and Consumer Protection is now in better position to help get locally grown potatoes, carrots, apples, broccoli, and cheese onto school lunch plates. In Wisconsin, and across the nation, there is a strong interest to...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Service, Partnership Key to Summer Meals Success

October 02, 2015 Tony Craddock, Jr., Program Analyst, Food and Nutrition Service

The following guest blog highlights the partnership between USDA and the Corporation for National and Community Service, which leverages the service-oriented energy of AmeriCorps summer associates to expand and enhance USDA summer meal sites for children in low-income communities. USDA summer meals...

Food and Nutrition

In Conversation with #WomeninAg: Onelisa Garza

October 02, 2015 Rachael Dubinsky, Office of Communications

To wrap up our Women’s Week blog series, we hear from Onelisa Garza, a current college senior at Texas A&M University, Kingsville who was raised in the small town of Linn, Texas. Onelisa has been very active in organizations like 4-H and FFA her whole life and has held many leadership positions...

Conservation Initiatives