![]() Between 20, USDA has invested over $1 billion in more than 40,000 local and regional food businesses and infrastructure projects to drive job growth increase entrepreneurship and expand food access and choice. Over recent weeks, the Shaw Bijou has gradually backed down from its initial ambitions. The Shaw Bijou Gregory Vakiner and Kwame Onwuachi became friends after meeting in culinary school and soon began collaborating throughout the course of. Across the country, USDA is investing in urban and rural agriculture alike to spur local and regional food production. Shaw Bijou was an expensive tasting menu restaurant that opened at the end of 2016. Since 2009, USDA has invested more than $19 billion in Maryland through economic development initiatives, nutrition programs, conservation efforts, food and agricultural research at Maryland’s colleges and universities, and through farming and ranching activities. Diverse communities across the country are seeing results with increased access to healthy, local foods, reduced crime, and the development of new opportunities in employment and education. Urban agriculture is also bringing new, younger producers to the marketplace. By expanding access to nutritious foods and increasing awareness about the benefits of a healthy lifestyle, urban farms are making a real difference in the lives of many, while promising a brighter, healthier future for the next generation. Now just 26 years old, the New York native is about to open a restaurant in Washington D.C. Secretary Vilsack is joined by Chair of President Obama’s My Brother’s Keeper Task Force, Broderick Johnson. Today, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack unveils the new USDA Urban Agriculture Toolkit to help urban agriculture entrepreneurs begin, grow and sustain urban farming businesses. ![]() ![]() and celebrity chef Kwame Onwuachi talks about his passion for creating meals at an early age the importance of affordble nutricious food in urban areas, and how he learned about running a business, during the opening of the Frederick Douglass High School community garden in Baltimore, Md., on Friday, April 29, 2016. The Shaw Bijou restaurant owner in Washington, D.C.
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