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Despite drought, San Diego Unified grows local sourcing program

 By Katie Fanuko on May 13, 2015

San Diego Unified School District’s produce procurer discusses the importance of communication and staying nimble while overseeing the district’s local sourcing initiative.

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Campus eliminates virtually all waste from dining halls

 May 12, 2015

Binghampton University students and Sodexo employees have incorporated policies including food donation and composting to ensure little food goes to waste.

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High school partners with nonprofit to reduce school’s waste

May 12, 2015

The LifeCycle Innovation Project is a three-phase process that takes food waste from lunches and turns it into high-quality compost for use in Lower Richland High School’s greenhouse.

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Meet the 2015 Silver Plate winners

May 11, 2015

From spearheading tough renovations to championing wellness programs that resonate, these non-commercial operators’ feats and passion make them best in class.

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School farm teaches students real-life agricultural practices

May 11, 2015

The Farm at The Grove School in Redlands, California, has fields, livestock, outbuildings and a farmers market that students tend to.

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Meet 2015 Silver Plate winner Nona Golledge

May 11, 2015

Asked to name her greatest achievement, Nona Golledge singles out guiding Kansas University Dining through a university-mandated merger of the residential dining and retail-catering departments.

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High school feeds students with healthy greenhouse food

May 08, 2015

Students at one Kentucky high school are happy about the two greenhouses on campus, but are more excited about where the foods end up.

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Students save 483 pounds of food waste in one week

May 07, 2015

Students in a Chicago suburb found they could save nearly 500 pounds of cafeteria food waste from landfills by sorting and taking it to a composting site.

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Juice to reduce vegetable waste

May 07, 2015

We use a juice machine to juice vegetable trim waste.

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Florida-area elementary school plants its own food garden

May 06, 2015

Third graders attending Kelsey Pharr Elementary have turned a grass field into several thousand square feet of all kinds of fruit and vegetables.

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