Students from across the country happily braved colder than average temperatures last week to participate in the annual White House Kitchen Garden planting.
Posts Categorized: Farms & Gardening
Feeding the Hungry Through Art
Artists are busy creating denim-inspired art to showcase at our 10th annual Blue Jeans Ball.
Add a Little Season(ing)
The quality of produce in the grocery store is just as much a reminder of winter as the current frigid temperatures.
Virginia is for [Fresh Produce] Lovers
The food bank recently brought on the Waterpenny Farm in Sperryville, VA to help provide fresh produce to our NOVA partners.
Breaking Ground Together
The Capital Area Food Bank recently broke ground on our Urban Demonstration Garden, a space that provides a hands-on, learning laboratory for food growing education.
Madisson’s Garden Benefits Capital Area Food Bank
As she was completing her junior year at Maryland’s Bethesda Chevy Chase High School, Madisson Tully began exploring ideas for a summer project that would involve her family and friends and benefit the community.
You Grow NOVA!
Our NOVA branch has recently planted a garden of beautiful native plants with the help of Healthy Eating Educator Abbie Steiner, other staff and volunteers.
Climate Craziness and What Can Be Done
Welcome to a food climate where wheat prices have climbed 37.6 percent since early June, and global food prices have risen 6.2 percent since last year.
Growing Hope
The Capital Area Food Bank has brought together Anacostia youth for the past five summers through the Garden Club at Children of Mine Center.
Climate Craziness: 2012 As a Food Game Changer
With the 2012 drought and increasing craziness in national climate patterns we may experience shifting food supplies that in turn will affect the food bank’s operations and our clients.