Kids & Food
Stories and discussions about about the feeding and food education of children, including kid and family-friendly recipes. We include:
* Featured articles that may or may not include one of our recipes
* Tidbits and relevant newsbits
Sol Food Mobile Farm Days 25-35: New England
Greetings from New England! Here on the Sol Food bus, we are enjoying beautiful, cool northern weather as we travel between farms and discover new areas of our country. Since we left our garden build in Philadelphia we have spent time in Trenton, NJ; New Haven, CT; Belfast and Harborside, ME; Moose Creek, NH; Johnson [...]
Sol Food Mobile Farm Days 18-25: Pennsylvania
Here at Sol Food Mobile Farm, we have just completed our last major garden build on the east coast in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania! Our next garden build will be in Chicago. For our five days in Philly, our bus was parked on an empty lot in the neighborhood of Kensington (2009 East York Street to be [...]
Sol Food Mobile Farm Days 16-17: Maryland
Cheers from the bus crew! We are here in Baltimore finishing up a great week of work here in the city. For the past six days, we have been introduced to the community at the Jewish Museum of Maryland, have volunteered at Kayam Farms, visited the Visionary Art Museum, and helped develop a local community [...]
Sol Food Mobile Farm Days 11-15: Maryland
Greetings from Baltimore, MD! Summer weather is in full tilt here and we are having a great (and extremely hot) trip so far. We have met wonderful people, had incredible food, seen inspiring agriculture projects and gotten our hands dirty in the garden all week. So far during our tour we have traveled from the [...]
Sol Food Mobile Farm Days 8-10: Virginia to Maryland
On June 30, our bus is stopped in Bethesda, Maryland for the DC Central Market. This Saturday farmers market is an awesome stop for anyone who finds themselves in the local area and is in need of tons of fresh produce, local chocolate and even homemade cupcakes. We had an eventful morning of bus tours [...]
Sol Food Mobile Farm Days 5-7: North Carolina
Greetings from the Green River Preserve summer camp in Cedar Mountain, NC! We are having a wonderful trip so far and growing as a team more and more every day. Today we will be working with the GRP farm interns to lead what camp calls a “Group Learning Project”. Group Learning Projects, or GLPs, are [...]
Sol Food Mobile Farm Days 1-4: North Carolina
Greetings from the road! Here at Sol Food Mobile Farm we are just finishing up our first week of much anticipated first week of farm tours and expos around North Carolina. For the next six months, we will be traveling around the country building community gardens and visiting local farms and markets. We will be [...]
Zompping for Food and Planet Standards & Indicators
We have successfully piloted Zompping for Food and Planet to the delight of children and adults alike in DC and NC. We are also excited for Sol Food Mobile Farm’s national tour that brings the curriculum around the U.S.! During their tour, they will be getting feedback from participants to help refine and improve the curriculum. [...]
Energy Independent Sol Food Mobile Farm Durham Send-Off with LoYo
Can you believe that Sol Food Mobile Farm is going to hit the road in TWO days? The intrepid team: Dylan, Eliza, Ellen, and Reid (our heroes) have been hard at work, and oh my, oh my, the bus is looking amazing!!
Low-Salt Diet = Hypertension?: Olive and Thyme Farinata
Recently, the Nytimes published an article about the ongoing debate surrounding the health benefits of a low-salt diet, particularly as it relates to reducing the risk of hypertension and cardiovascular disease. Contrary to popular belief, this op-ed piece argues that there is little strong evidence to support the long (and steadfast) belief that a that [...]
