In the News
In the News
- Avoidable food waste in U.S. represents nearly 29 percent of annual production
- 14 emissions cuts would save money, prevent premature deaths, increase crop yields -- and prevent climate change, scientists say
- Aggressive plan to pipe water to thirsty Las Vegas from rural aquifers stirs conflict Southern Nevada Water Authority (SNWA), proposes to draw water from five faraway basins, including the Snake Valley, which straddles the Utah border. The multibillion-dollar project would help supply 2 million residents of the sprawling Las Vegas area, bu
- Vegetable Gardens Are Booming in a Fallow Economy
- Schools Restore Fresh Cooking to the Cafeteria
- Michigan Schools to Buy Local for School Lunches Pilot Program to Boost Michigan Economy and Provide Kids Fresher Produce
- Adam Putnam Ready to Deliver Farm-Fresh Florida Food to Schoolchildren The Agriculture Commissioner promises local produce to school cafeterias across the state, thanks to the Healthy Schools for Healthy Lives Act
- Ye Olde Kitchen Garden - The New York Times Colonial-era vegetables have all but disappeared from our gardens and dinner plates
- Philadelphia schools close kitchens at 26 elementary and middle schools, affecting 16,681 mostly poor children - Inquirer Philadelphia closes school kitchens
- Opinion: America’s current system of food production is profoundly undemocratic, one more sign of how the few now rule the many - and it's harming American farmers, workers and consumers - WaPo
- In table-to-farm movement, companies help restaurants deal with food waste by composting it - Business Week In table-to-farm movement, companies help restaurants deal with food waste by composting it - Business Week
- Are school meal items from Chartwells, Sodexo, Aramark influenced by big rebates from food giants? - Chicago Tribune
- In LAUSD classes, students couldn't say where honey comes from, but begged for information on avoiding diabetes, writes Jamie Oliver - The Wall Street Journal. Jamie Oliver writes about the hourlong civics class and the food quiz the students couldn't answer.
- The garden’s simplest measuring tools: Your hand, a stride, a rake; WaPo The garden’s simplest measuring tools: Your hand, a stride, a rake; The Washington Post
- Seeds of knowledge: Littlebrook Elementary students plant peas and learn other garden- and food-based lessons - Princeton Packet
- Using simple placement techniques in school cafeteria increases children's purchases of salads, fruits, vegetables: Boston Globe
- School lunches in New York began a radical transformation a few years back, with Department of Education’s decision to think of them as food rather than as a government service. - NYT
- In New Orleans, educational venture and commercial urban farm flourishes in wrecked neighborhood; students grow $2,500 of produce weekly which they sell at farmers' market, restaurants - NYT
- Opinion: Extra 6 cents won't help school districts deliver better food for lunch; feds can't burden schools with making up the difference or allow them to wiggle out of restrictions - SF Chronicle
- Trinity Episcopal Church, Terra Momo Restaurants plan One Table Café, a dinner series with pay-what-you-can honor system - Princeton Packet
- Opinion: Obesity epidemic requires common sense - return P.E. to schools, offer better food in school cafeterias, end some subsidies, reward wellness in employer health plans, and eat more homemade dinners with our families - Washington Times
- Opinion: As parents, educators, nutritionists and marketers, we have to imbue our children with love of fruits, vegetables - the most beneficial food for growing bodies - WSJ
- New school lunch rules would cut sodium, limit starches, ban most trans fats, require lowfat milk, increase whole grains, add more fruits, vegetables, limit calories - WP
- Diverting funds from food stamps to child nutrition and to states looking to retain teachers negates increase provided by 2009 economic stimulus plan - CNN
- At charter school near Chicago, parking lot is becoming classroom-sized greenhouse, green-roofed chicken coop, and school's kitchen garden - The Atlantic
- Food is new front in cultural war - WP
- Riverside Elementary garden - "shocking in its bounty" - part of Farm to School Network - Trenton Times
- New scrappiness takes root around food, one that relies on community - NYT
- Italian school lunches go organic, low-cost, local - GlobalPost
- Michelle Obama asks Congress to join obesity fight - The New York Times
- Cook County Jail garden grows produce for Charlie Trotter's, cuts recidivism rates for inmates - Chicago Tribune
- Rise - and fall - of school gardens in New York - Huffington Post Rise - and fall - of school gardens in New York - Huffington Post
- USDA to award $1 million in grants to high-poverty schools for starting community gardens - USA Today
- School lessons on basic cooking skills get left behind - LA Times
- Edible gardens a low-budget perk for employees at cash-strapped companies – NYTimes Here at the world headquarters of PepsiCo, the masterminds behind $60 billion worth of Mountain Dew, Cheetos and Rice-A-Roni roam polished hallways. But a five-minute walk away is the organic corporate vegetable garden, where spreadsheets and performance
- Wal-Mart Gives $2 Billion to Fight Hunger – NYTimes The Wal-Mart Corporation announced plans Wednesday to contribute $2 billion in cash and food to the nation’s food banks, one of the largest corporate gifts on record...
- Chesapeake Bay settlement has EPA agreeing to enforce pollution reduction goals – Washington Post The Environmental Protection Agency will be legally bound to clean the soiled waters of the Chesapeake Bay after reaching an agreement Tuesday to enforce tough new standards for pollution reduction...
- Dow-funded study warns of dioxin in local food – Michigan Messenger A Dow Chemical-funded study conducted by researchers at the University of Michigan has found that consumption of food grown in the dioxin-contaminated Tittabawassee floodplain resulted in a toxic burden in the bodies of some local residents...