OCFS seeks to increase the availability of local foods in child nutrition programs, promote hands-on learning activities such as gardening, farm visits, and culinary classes, and encourage the integration of food related education into regular, standards-based curriculum to help children make lifelong healthy eating choices.
This Geographic Preference fact sheet reviews the topic of geographic preference and how it can be used to purchase local foods.
This fact sheet provides an overview of the amount of fiber that has been available for consumption between 2000 and 2005 and the level of contribution by grains to fiber in the U.S. food supply.
The SNAP Nutrition Education and Obesity Prevention Grant Program Interim Rule was published in the Federal Register on April 5, 2013
Time line of the Food Stamp Program (FSP) to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)