EPISODE 2: Feeding the Football Team in Burke County, GA
Release Date: 12/17/2024
EPISODE 5: Empowering Communities: The Inter-Faith Food Shuttle’s Innovative Fight Against Hunger in North Carolina
The Charlie Cart Podcast
In North Carolina, one in five children is at risk of hunger. To fight the root causes of hunger, the team at the Inter-faith Food Shuttle runs a dizzying number of programs. In their whole- community approach, they use the Charlie Cart to teach specialized classes for the blind, for families, and for formerly incarcerated people to cook and launch a career in food and nutrition. Learn more about Interfaith Food Shuttle: //www.foodshuttle.org/
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EPISODE 4: Food is Medicine: In the heart of D.C. pediatricians make institutional strides
The Charlie Cart Podcast
We talk to a team of people working at the heart of the food is medicine movement. And we’ll learn how Children’s National Hospital in Washington DC developed FLIP RX, a program that delivers fresh produce to patients’ homes. Pediatrician, Dr. Kofi Essel, developed that program after being tasked with identifying food insecure families at the hospital.
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EPISODE 3: Providing Free Meals for All in Maine
The Charlie Cart Podcast
Featuring Jeanne Riley, Windham-Raymond Food Service Director, Anna Korson of Full Plates Full Potential and Ryan Parker of FoodCorps When the pandemic upended school routines, the federal government began funding school meal programs nationwide, in effect making meals free for every child. After federal funding was revoked in 2022, advocates in states across the nation fought to pass legislation that would continue universal free meal programs, ensuring kids had access to nutritious meals, and helping end lunch room shame. Food Service Director for Windham-Raymond Jeanne Reilly teams up with...
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EPISODE 2: Feeding the Football Team in Burke County, GA
The Charlie Cart Podcast
Featuring Donna Martin, former Director of Nutrition for Burke County Schools and Michelle Obama The former Director of Nutrition for Burke County schools shares an incredible story about how the school nutrition program helped send their football team to the Georgia state championships! And describes what happens when First Lady Michelle Obama pops by to help you plant your edible schoolyard!
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EPISODE 1: Building Food Sovereignty on the Rosebud Reservation, S.D.
The Charlie Cart Podcast
Featuring Foster Cournoyer Hogan, Matte Wilson & James Beard Award-winning Chef Sean Sherman Meet two Lakota cousins deep into food education who are working in different ways to help heal and embolden the next generation of Siċaŋġu Lakota children on the reservation they grew up on. Plus hear James Beard Award-winning chef and native food expert, Sean Sherman, talk about his vision for the future.
info_outlineFeaturing Donna Martin, former Director of Nutrition for Burke County Schools and Michelle Obama
The former Director of Nutrition for Burke County schools shares an incredible story about how the school nutrition program helped send their football team to the Georgia state championships! And describes what happens when First Lady Michelle Obama pops by to help you plant your edible schoolyard!