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People's Garden Initiative Launches New Website to Celebrate National Garden Month

March 28, 2016 Annie Ceccarini, Program Manager, The People's Garden Initiative and USDA Farmers Market

Spring has sprung and April is National Garden Month! It’s time to pick up your trowel and get gardening. USDA launched the new People’s Garden website that provides tools and resources gardeners can use to start or expand a home, school or community garden. Unveiled during today’s annual Easter Egg...

Food and Nutrition Farming Initiatives

Unlocking the Toolkit for Stronger Local Food Systems

March 24, 2016 Ken Keck, AMS Local Food Research and Development Division Director

Every community wants to support initiatives that promote economic growth and create new jobs, but sometimes it can be hard to decide on the best way to accomplish these goals. Now there is a new resource to help communities make the economic case for investments in local food. Today, Secretary Tom...

Food and Nutrition Farming

Organic Sound and Sensible Initiative: Spanish Resources

March 17, 2016 Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator of the National Organic Program

The Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) National Organic Program (NOP) works every day to ensure that products with the USDA organic seal meet consistent, uniform standards. In addition to its rigorous certification process and oversight to protect the integrity of the organic seal, the program...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming

Iniciativa Orgánica Sound and Sensible: Recursos en Español

March 17, 2016 Miles McEvoy, Deputy Administrator of the National Organic Program

El Programa Nacional Orgánico (NOP, por sus siglas en inglés) del Servicio de Comercialización Agrícola (AMS, por sus siglas en inglés) trabaja todos los días para asegurar que los productos con el sello USDA Organic cumplan con estándares consistentes y uniformes. Además de su riguroso proceso de...

Conservation Food and Nutrition Farming