When 64,000 U.S. students had access to fruits and vegetables in the USDA’s Fruit and Vegetables Pilot Program, amazing things started to happen.
Models for Change: Lessons for Creating Healthy Active Communities The Active Living Research (ALR) Program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation stimulates and supports research on factors and policies that influence physical activity. Eleven case studies are described in this report.
Coalition for Activity and Nutrition to Defeat Obesity in Fort Collins, CO
Coalition on Children and Weight and San Diego County Childhood Obesity Initiative are working to reduce the prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in San Diego County.
Click here for their call to action.
Slow Food Nation is a subsidiary non-profit of Slow Food USA and part of the international Slow Food movement. It was created to organize the first-ever American collaborative gathering to unite the growing sustainable food movement and introduce thousands of people to food that is good, clean and fair.
Learn more about their curricula and project at The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) section on Nutrition Education-Gardening with Children includes information about gardening with children and has links to many sites about how to start gardens in schools or child care centers.
Kidsgarden features stories about successful garden programs, grants, classroom activities and more.