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¡Si Por Favor! We’ll Take Another Serving of Spanish Chickpea Stew

May 27, 2011 Cordelia Fox, Public Affairs Director, USDA Food and Nutrition Service, Western Region

Cross posted from the Let's Move! blog. The bay area of California is home to some celebrity chefs but it is the lesser known student chefs at Skyline High School that are making the bulbs flash and the critics swoon. Well before the official judging team arrived at Skyline High School in Oakland...

Initiatives Food and Nutrition

Regional Collaboration Uses Local Food Systems to Expand Rural-Urban Partnership

December 28, 2010 Bill Menner, USDA Rural Development State Director in Iowa

A regional initiative in Southwest Iowa originally intended to train farmers on local-food production has evolved into a rural-urban partnership that touches a poverty-stricken community. I joined USDA Rural Development Acting Deputy Under Secretary Doug O’Brien in Oakland, Iowa, recently to meet...

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