[](https://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-00028&segmentID=6)
### [Hospital Farming For Better Health](https://loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=18-P13-00028&segmentID=6)
**NPR | 7/13/18**
### [Boston Medical Center's Rooftop Farm Providing Fresh Produce To Patients, Community](https://whdh.com/news/boston-medical-centers-rooftop-farm-providing-fresh-produce-to-patients-community/)
**7 News Boston | 6/26/18**
### [Cooking Classes Aim To Restore Health After Addiction](https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/massachusetts/articles/2018-04-01/cooking-classes-aim-to-restore-health-after-addiction)
**U.S. News & World Report | 4/1/18**
### [As Diet-Related Illnesses Surge, a New Kind of Pharmacy Dispenses Fruit and Vegetables](https://www.motherjones.com/food/2017/12/pharmacy-fruit-and-vegetables-prescriptions-preventative-food-pantry-san-francisco-boston/)
**Mother Jones | November 2017**
### [Not A Fan Of Hospital Food? Hospitals Are Working To Change That By Growing Their Own Produce](https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/10/31/not-fan-hospital-food-hospitals-working-change-growing-their-own-produce/816187001/)
USA Today | 10/31/17
## Teaching Kitchen News Archive
- [A Farm in the Sky](http://www.bu.edu/today/2017/rooftop-farm-at-boston-medical-center/)
- [Devin McCourty is cooking, even if the Patriots are not](https://www.bostonglobe.com/lifestyle/names/2017/09/13/devin-mccourty-cooking-even-patriots-are-not/UfBFdrxUp5LrzqIpqUrvCN/story.html)
- [A growing trend in employee wellness]()
- [Eat, Grow, Learn (PDF)]()
- [Boston Medical Center rooftop farm]()
- [A ton of produce: Photos of BMC's brand new rooftop garden](https://www.bizjournals.com/boston/news/2017/07/18/a-ton-of-produce-photos-of-bmcs-brand-new-rooftop.html)
- [With a New Rooftop Farm, Nutrition Is BMC's Highest Priority](http://www.bostonmagazine.com/health/blog/2017/07/13/bmc-rooftop-farm/)
- [Boston Medical Center urban farm serving up veggies to patients](http://www.fox25boston.com/news/boston-medical-center-urban-farm-serving-up-veggies-to-patients/592437633)
- [When the Prescription Is a Recipe](https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/09/well/family/when-the-prescription-is-a-recipe.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170810&nlid=56398678&tntemail0=y)
**Award Recipient at Food and Nutrition Convention and Exposition for the Academy of Food and Nutrition (AND) - October 2016**
- In recognition as the winner of the AND Council on Future Practice's "Innovations in Dietetics Practice"
[Boston Medical Center 2012 James W. Varnum Award Recipient](https://patch.com/massachusetts/southend/an--dartmouth-hitchcock-names-boston-medical-center-a00920e6dcb)
- BMC's Food Pantry and Teaching Kitchen is the proud recipient of the 2012 James W. Varnum National Quality Health Care Award, established by the Trustees of Dartmouth-Hitchcock to recognize an outstanding national leader in health care quality improvement initiatives.
## Preventive Food Pantry News Archive
[Boston Medical Center 2012 James W. Varnum Award Recipient](https://www.boston.com/uncategorized/noprimarytagmatch/2012/11/19/boston-medical-centers-pantry-by-prescription-program-recognized-with-national-award)
BMC's Food Pantry and Teaching Kitchen is the proud recipient of the 2012 James W. Varnum National Quality Health Care Award, established by the Trustees of Dartmouth-Hitchcock to recognize an outstanding national leader in health care quality improvement initiatives.
## Rooftop Farm News Archive
- [Urban Oasis High atop a hospital Power Plant](/news/news-release-archives/2017/08/08/urban-oasis-high-atop-hospital-power-plant)
- [Boston Medical Center Grows First Hospital-Based Rooftop Farm in Massachusetts](/news/press-releases/2017/07/13/boston-medical-center-grows-first-hospital-based-rooftop-farm)
- [John Stoddard and Lindsay Allen of Higher Ground Farm on the Journey from Idealism to Practicality on a Rooftop Farm](http://www.farmertofarmerpodcast.com/episodes/higherground)
### Podcast: A Rooftop Garden at a Medical Center?
### The Teaching Kitchen
- 2012 James W. Varnum "National Quality Health Care Award" (both pantry and kitchen)
- 2014 Certificate of Appreciation from the Boston Health Care for the Homeless Program
- 2016 Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics' Council on Future Practice's award for "Innovations in Dietetics Practice"
### Rooftop Farm
- Becker's Hospital Review has named BMC one of the 50 greenest hospitals in America
- Practice Greenhealth in 2018: the Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award, the highest honor Practice Greenhealth bestows on hospitals
- Practice Greenhealth in 2017: the Top 25 Environmental Excellence Award, the highest honor Practice Greenhealth bestows on hospitals
- Greening the OR Recognition Award
- Circle of Excellence award in the energy category.