Guest Post By Andrea Northup If you walked into a D.C. school cafeteria on June 3rd2010, you may have been surprised at what you saw on students’ trays. More than 150 schools in DC featured fresh, locally-grown strawberries and salad greens as a part of their school lunches. This was part of an event called […]
Here it is, the winning entry in the national Cooking Up Change contest, high school division, a grilled mult-grain quesadilla with tepary beans prepared by a Native American team from the Tohono O’odham nation in Arizona. Tepary beans are a traditional ingredient to the Tohono O’odham people and this quesadilla wowed the judges gathered for […]
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Does President Obama’s proposed freeze on discretionary spending include federal meal programs for schools? Debra Eschmeyer, head of the National Farm-to-School Network, says now is not the time to shrink from improving the quality of school food, not when children are caught up in an obesity epidemic, not when the U.S. is spending $1 million […]
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