Lessons from across America for Farm to School Month
From 2015 to 2020, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation partnered with five state coalitions – Georgia, Iowa, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin – to ...
Education
Rhea Williams-Bishop: Farm to early care programs are wins for Mississippi. Let’s keep growing them.
Rhea Williams-Bishop, director of Mississippi and New Orleans programs at the W.K. Kellogg Foundation, believes that the richness of Mississippi’s soil should be ...
Food Systems
Advancing racial equity through farm to early care and education in Pennsylvania
Young gardeners using hoes to get the soil ready for planting at A Mother’s Touch Center for Child Development in Sharon, PA. Photo ...
Food Systems
Building community-based, equitable food systems in North Carolina through farm to early care and education
With a nationally recognized early childhood system through its Smart Start public-private partnership, North Carolina provides fertile ground for developing a robust farm ...
Food Systems
Community-driven advocacy grows farm to early care and education in Iowa
Two young girls build a snack with their moms inside the classroom in Oelwein, IA. Photo courtesy of Northeast Iowa Food & Fitness ...
Equitable food access through farm to early care and education in Wisconsin
Wisconsin is full of agricultural abundance, with more than 300 farmers’ markets and 900 school and educational community gardens. The state is known ...
Food Systems
Farm to early care and education advances community nutrition in Georgia
Both a program and a movement, farm to early care and education connects young children to local food and healthy eating through growing, ...
Food Systems
Hurricane Katrina ten years later: A powerful message from a survivor
Sherry Thomas' resilient spirit inspires New Orleans natives who came back home after Hurricane Katrina to rebuild their lives and their communities.
