We love our partners, and want to share with our community more about the great work they do. Meet Care and Share Food Bank for Southern Colorado! Our partners at Care and Share, located in Colorado Springs, are one of Nourish’s main Cooking Matters satellite partners, implementing food skills education programming in their community to […]
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The vast majority of Nourish Colorado’s WIC and Older Adult produce program has been funded by a Local Food Purchase Assistance Cooperative Agreement grant run through the Colorado Department of Human Services from the USDA for the past two seasons. With funding in jeopardy for 2025, see examples of how Nourish and partners across the state have put LFPA
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Partners, If you’re following along, you’ve read about our Local Food Program (LFP) updates and impact (and if not, you can catch up here and here). This is the situation we’re in: funding for the Local Food Program remains uncertain. Healthy School Meals for All’s effort to provide access to free, nutritious school meals for all students in Colorado public
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We love our partners, and want to share with our community more about the great work they do. Meet Campo School District! Our partners at Campo School District, located in southeast Colorado, prioritize procuring and serving local products in their school meal programs and engaging their students through hands-on, experiential learning via culinary- and agricultural-related
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Dear Partners, As summer unfolds, we are excited to share the latest news and achievements from our dedicated team efforts to build a more equitable food system in this issue of Dig In! This issue covers a season that has been filled with impactful events, innovative programs, and collaborations that are driving change in our community. From
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If you caught our last post about the Local Food Program (LFP) (and if you didn’t, catch up on our blog here), you know that the future of a statewide LFP as part of Healthy School Meals for All (HSMA) is uncertain, despite the core components of LFP being what voters valued the most –
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Today, we are focusing on what ended up being one of our top priorities in the 2024 legislative session – the protection and maintenance of the state’s Local Food Program (LFP) as a core aspect of Healthy School Meals for All (HSMA). Status of the Local Food Program As you likely have heard, the cost for implementing
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Dear Partners, As we embrace the sunny days and blossoming of spring (with the occasional winter storm!), we’re excited to present the latest issue of Dig In! In this edition, we are thrilled to share some exciting updates about the latest healthy eating initiatives happening right here in Colorado! From the launch of the innovative SNAP Produce
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Dear Partners, The weather brought about a swift end to the harvest at the end of October. To our valued farm partners, we hope you harvested what you could, that your nourishing foods made it to market, and that you may find some time to decompress soon. Interestingly, advocacy for progressive food and farm legislation
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