At Salvation Farms in Vermont, Executive Director Theresa Snow, a long-time colleague and co-author of our forthcoming publication Beyond Bread: Healthy Food Sourcing in Emergency Food Programs, is helping to pilot an unusual collaboration between a prison work camp and local farms in order to get more fresh food to people in need. Theresa sent along the story this week,

Farmers' markets are exploding in popularity all around the country

Even as one in six Americans is food insecure, diet-related illness are skyrocketing. Today's kids are expected to be the first generation to have a shorter lifespan than their parents, and preventable diet-related disease is fast becoming the top source of healthcare spending. For the health of our economy, health care system, and the future of the nation, it's critical

This week, our friends at the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and their allies are commemorating Wendy's annual Founder’s Week (November 11-17) – but with a bit of a twist from how the pigtailed fast food chain is celebrating the week itself. Wendy’s remains the last major US fast food chain still holding out from joining the groundbreaking Fair Food Program, which guarantees human rights and a fair wage to farmworkers in Florida’s tomato industry. “As Wendy’s