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FoodFight

March 15, 2014

FoodFight’s mission is to revolutionize the way we eat and think about food. Using schools as a platform, FoodFight arms teachers, students and school staff with the tools and knowledge they need to make healthier choices and become role models and agents of change for their families and communities. As long time public educators, the […]

Rachael Celebrates Let’s Move’s 4th Anniversary with First Lady; Shares Proposed Updates to Nutrition Facts Labels

March 5, 2014

Rachael joined First Lady Michelle Obama and White House Chef Sam Kass in the White House kitchen to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the Let’s Move! campaign, following the First Lady’s announcement of proposed updates to the Nutrition Facts label found on more than 700,000 food products…

Budding Farmers

February 28, 2014

Inspired by her years of experience working within the local food system as a farmer, farmers’ market manager, community educator and good food activist, farmer-educator Monica Irwin founded Budding Farmers on the premise that all kids should know where their food comes from and why they should be eating healthy food. The Budding Farmers program […]

Kids’ Safe & Healthful Food Project

February 15, 2014

Over the last four decades, rates of obesity have more than quadrupled among U.S children and more than tripled among adolescents. Today, more than 23.5 million kids are overweight or obese placing them at risk for diabetes, high blood pressure and other serious chronic diseases. With recent studies showing that kids consume up to half […]

Farmers Against Hunger

January 31, 2014

Farmers Against Hunger (FAH), a program of the New Jersey Agricultural Society, was started in 1996 as a way to enable farmers throughout the state of New Jersey to contribute their extra produce to those in need. Prior to the establishment of Farmers Against Hunger, a few farmers tried to donate produce to their local […]

Announcing the 2013 Yum-o! Scholarship Winners

January 22, 2014

The FUND component of Yum-o!’s mission helps kids reach their food-related career goals by funding culinary school scholarships. Yum-o! is pleased to announce this year’s ten scholarship winners, who will each receive $2,500 scholarships to pursue their culinary education.

Kids Culinary Arts

January 15, 2014

Cooking is fascinating to children. They love the process of adding, stirring and blending ingredients together in order to see something unique develop – something special they have created. The mission of Amherst, New Hampshire-based Kids Culinary Arts is to help children learn why they should eat and how to prepare nourishing food so they […]

New York Botanical Garden Edible Academy

December 31, 2013

For nearly 100 years, The New York Botanical Garden has been a leader in garden-based education for teachers and school children from the Bronx and throughout the New York metro region, as well as the edible gardening headquarters for schools, community groups, urban farmers and home gardeners. In response to growing demand for edible gardening […]

<i>Ingredient</i> Magazine

December 15, 2013

Started in 2010, Ingredient is an indie magazine for kids that believes that kids should be curious about the world they live in and about the hows, whats, whys and whens of the food they put in their bodies. With an editorial board comprised of food writers, parents, teachers and special needs experts, the magazine […]

Fight BAC!® – The Partnership for Food Safety Education

November 30, 2013

Every year, one in six Americans gets sick from dangerous foodborne bacteria. Many of the estimated 128,000 who suffer serious illness requiring hospitalization each year are young children. The Partnership for Food Safety Education’s mission is to end illness and death from foodborne infection in the United States. This nonprofit organization brings together the public […]