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University of Colorado student pushes for trayless dining

Trayless dining in university dining halls: a simple idea, but one with few case studies and fewer reliable metrics.

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“Farm to bedside” plan grows in two hospitals

St. Joseph’s Hospital in Ann Arbor, Michigan, hosts a farmers market every Wednesday in its main lobby featuring produce gown on the hospital’s 25-acre farm.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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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