Dec 6, 2021 | Blog and Resources, Educators & Administrators
After two decades as a public school teacher and fifteen years managing school-garden programs on a local and national level, Cynthia Walters has joined the Green Umbrella staff as the Greater Cincinnati Regional Farm to School Curriculum and Green Schoolyards...
Nov 19, 2021 | Blog and Resources
39 million. That’s a big number. Especially when you recognize that it represents the number of missed in-school meals as a result of the pandemic. To look at it another way, 370 million children world-wide have missed 40% of their school meals since the second...
Jul 9, 2021 | Blog and Resources
Before the pandemic, over 30 million school children participated in federal child nutrition programs. For many children, the meals provided through these programs are the only meals the eat in a day, making them an important source of nutrition. ...
Jun 15, 2021 | Blog and Resources
The Child Nutrition Reauthorization (CNR) is a process that Congress goes through every five years to make changes the rules and programs that apply to all child nutrition programs, which include school breakfast and lunch, summer meals, meals served at child and...
May 14, 2021 | Blog and Resources
Have you heard the buzz? No, it is not our yellow and black insect friends working to make our flowers bloom. Child nutrition programs are front and center and there is a lot to talk about, and even more importantly, do! Child Nutrition...
