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Univ. of Hawaii heading towards plastic-free campus

 Dec. 18, 2014

Less than a month after a student group organized its first plastic-free week, its petition to ban single-use plastic water bottles has more than 800 signatures.

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DIY farm market

 Dec. 16, 2014

There’s no space for us to invite local farmers to do a farmers market. So we had our produce company bring in local produce.

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USDA funds more local sourcing by schools…

Dec. 04, 2014

The department is providing $5 million for 82 projects aiming to foster connections between school cafeterias and local farmers.

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... Including a $100K initiative in Vermont

Dec. 04, 2014

The funds will expand farm-to-school programs throughout the state.

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Locavore feast

Dec. 03, 2014

We hosted a Farm to Table dinner in a greenhouse at The Seed Farm for 150 students and guests from five colleges and a hospital in the Lehigh Valley, Pa., area.

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Push for fresher food brings rodent problem to San Francisco schools

Dec. 01, 2014

The San Francisco Unified School District's new fresh-food program has been giving schools a stomachache, as a lack of refrigerators has put the brakes on plans to expand the program.

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School finds composting to be worth the mess

Dec. 01, 2014

The mess is a small price to pay for a program that officials hope will keep thousands of pounds of food waste away from the landfill, and instill in children lifelong habits.

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Binghamton students rally against campus foodservice

Nov. 24, 2014

With Sodexo’s contract up at the end of the year, students rallied in the Glenn G. Bartle Library entrance hall.

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Pretty and practical herb displays

Nov. 21, 2014

We grow herbs in decorative containers indoors. We place the containers in retail or servery locations where customers can see the herbs being used in display cooking stations.

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California college to open “food forest”

Nov. 20, 2014

Merced College’s Los Banos campus on Friday held a dedication and groundbreaking ceremony for its Food Forest, a garden area that will be arranged with fruit-bearing trees, berry bushes and herbs along the area between the campus parking lots and the Los Banos Creek.

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