FoodCorps Iowa

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FoodCorps Iowa team members at the National Farm to Cafeteria Conference, June 2016.

foodcorps-iowa-logoFoodCorps is a national service program that connects kids to healthy food in school.

They are a team of AmeriCorps leaders who serve in high-need schools to make sure students learn what healthy food is, fall in love with it, and eat it every day. They focus their service on

  • delivering hands-on lessons in gardening, cooking, and tasting healthy food;
  • improving school meals; and
  • encouraging a school-wide culture of health.

In Iowa, Iowa State University Extension and Outreach acts as the State Partner for FoodCorps Iowa, overseeing FoodCorps programs across the state and helping recruit, select, and evaluate service members and programs.

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Nathan Spalding

Nathan Spalding is program coordinator for FoodCorps Iowa. Chelsea Krist is FoodCorps Iowa’s state partner, providing support and guidance to the program coordinator and service members statewide on behalf of FFED.

If you would like to know more about the great work FoodCorps Iowa service members are doing, check out the FoodCorps Iowa field reports at this link, and its Facebook page at this link. Also, check out some of our FoodCorps blog posts below.

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