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National School Lunch Week: ‘Lettuce’ Celebrate!
During National School Lunch Week, held each year in October, schools around the country celebrate all of the ways a school lunch can positively affect a child’s life, both at school and at home!

Freeze Now, Eat Later! Freezer Meal Workshop
Freezer meals provide families with the option to have a home cooked meal with minimal effort on busy days.

A Guide to Drying Foods
Fact sheet about drying foods

Preserving Pumpkin
Pumpkins are a staple for the fall season. They can often be seen used to decorate homes or for carving jack-o'-lanterns, but they’re great to eat or can for later too!

Voices For Food
Resources for Food Councils to bridge the gap between food security and healthy food choices.

Food Waste in Schools and Strategies to Reduce It
You may be wondering what can schools do to help in food waste reduction efforts? In school nutrition programs there are a variety of steps in which food loss can be controlled ranging from planning the meals to serving the food.

Easy Home-Cooked Meals in One-Pot
With changes to the schedules and day-to-day activities of our lives, we may be looking for ways to include the goodness of home-cooked meals for ourselves and our families. One-pot meals can be the answer.

Teaching Math and Science in the Kitchen: 24 Ideas
Children can learn valuable skills in the kitchen: measuring ingredients, following a recipes, and much more. Have you ever considered that these skills double as math and science skills?

Make Your Own Kitchen Cleaning Sanitizer
There are a number of sanitizing products that you can buy at the store, but an inexpensive sanitizing solution can be made at home. You will need unscented liquid chlorine bleach, water and a spray bottle.
South Dakota State 4-H Ambassadors Attend National 4-H Summit on Healthy Living and 4-H Healthy Habits Conference
March 23, 2020
Three South Dakota State 4-H Ambassadors joined other teen leaders from across the country at the 4-H Healthy Habits Conference and National 4-H Summit on Healthy Living to learn how to be advocates for promoting healthy lifestyle choices in their communities.