Cam! Those stories and more in U-S-D-A Week In Review. From the People’s Gardens to

the people that need food. The Feds Feed Families campaign is sharing the harvest from U-S-D-A

People’s Gardens and donations by U-S-D-A employees from farmers markets to help those

in need. The food collected in Washington will go to the D-C Central Kitchen. They prepare

the food. They have a culinary job training program and the food is prepared and it goes

out to after school programs or other programs in the city that need fresh food options.

There are over twenty one hundred People’s Gardens across the U-S and around the world.

Since 2009 community members participating in the People’s Garden initiative have donated

over three point one million pounds of food through the People’s Garden Initiative Share

Your Harvest Campaign. All produce grown in People’s Gardens is required to be donated

to programs in the local community. It’s packing lunch for school time again. U-S-D-A’s

Food Safety and Inspection Service wants you to know some simple ways to keep the kids’

packed lunches safe from food borne illness. One way is to pack the lunch with a cold source.

One of those can easily just be the bottle of water or juice pack that if you just freeze

it overnight that can be a cold source and then we still do recommend a second cold source

that is an insulated cooler block. And those lunches should be packed in insulated bags.

A lunch that has perishable foods actually will not be safe by lunchtime if it’s packed

just in a brown paper bag. So those insulated bags are really your friend. Some other tips:

put a packaged sanitizing wipe in with the lunch and leave lunch items in the refrigerator

overnight. Want to see live Alaska salmon but just can’t make it up there? Then the

U-S Forest Service Salmon Cam is for you. The Salmon Cam broadcasts live from Crooked

Creek in the Chugach National Forest. To see the action go to You-Tube and search Crooked

Creek Information site. The best viewing times are between eight thirty a-m and one thirty

a-m Eastern Time. And in this week’s Photo of the Week, children eating school meals.

Nutritious school meals can help keep students healthy and ready to learn. For more about

school meals check out the U-S-D-A blog. For more photos go to the U-S-D-A Flickr site.

That’s all for U-S-D-A Week In Review. Follow, tweet, and stay informed at U-S-D-A dot-gov.