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Each summer we run a four-week program that focuses on adding a wider variety of fruits and vegetables to employees’ diets.

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Lawmakers propose new dairy standards nutrition law

Milk consumption is falling in schools, according to a recent National Dairy Council report, and a new bill is designed to do something about it.

Concerns that students living in the area are food insecure has prompted staff to plant a garden that will provide food to Livermore Elementary School’s pantry.

The Urban School Food Alliance describes the move as a major boost in sustainability.

Keyes Elementary School teachers in Texas have filed a grievance over the program with concerns that they will lose valuable instructional time to eating.

Cafeteria workers say they cannot afford to live in Austin on the hourly wages they are paid and petitioned the school board to increase wages to $21 an hour.

The government has responded to social-media criticisms of the federal school lunch program championed by Michelle Obama.

Under the new contract, part-time cafeteria employees employed by the Philadelphia School District would get an increase in pay, going from $10.88 to a $12.67 hourly wage.

The government has responded to social-media criticisms of the federal school lunch program championed by Michelle Obama.

A 200-foot vertical greenhouse proposed by a University of Kentucky student created buzz at a town hall meeting, as a Kentucky community seeks to draw visitors in the wake of a natural disaster.

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