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The U.S. Senate passed a historic Farm Bill Thursday, paving the way for an important fight in the House to preserve measures for conservation, local food economies, and healthy food for families and school children....
The Farm Bill is worth watching if you care about investing in local food and farm jobs, the environment, family-scale agriculture, and healthy, local food for schools, kids, and families....
The Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment is enforcing a new policy that threatens the livelihoods of small farms raising heritage breeds of pigs that are popular with chefs and others buying in local food markets....
New "10 cents" project advocates for an additional dime to be spent on each student's meal in local schools. ...
Menu offered Farm to School, a ‘dime’ campaign, reading to kids...
Privatizing cafeterias could hamper food buying, preparation, innovation...
Summit sees signs of success for nascent local food economy...
Programs also boost local farms, change children’s tastes...
Businesses, farm markets, agencies help families buy fresh, healthy fare...
Grand Vision group builds local economy with region’s bounty...
Cafeteria’s local food pleases students, parents, teachers, and bean counters...
Betti Wiggins, operations manager for food service in Detroit Public Schools, is determined to serve more Michigan-grown fresh fruits and vegetables to the 52,000 kids she feeds at lunchtime each day....
I just spent five days in Phoenix, Ariz., with 650 farmers, researchers, health professionals, young people, and community advocates from across the country who are working on new markets for farms, economic development for communities, and healthy diets ...
Michigan is set to hear from some of the leading innovators of farm to school programs in the country during the Taking Root: National Farm to Cafeteria Conference in Detroit in May. And that’s not all....
