This Visionary is Helping Hospitals Take Food Seriously
Marydale DeBor loves her job. The pixie-sized woman, with a short crop of gray hair and funky glasses, runs Fresh Advantage, a consulting firm that helps hospitals and medical schools integrate...
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The Food Science Lab is Teaching Students to Grow Food in a Chicago High School
Carl Schurz High School isn’t technically located in a “food desert,” but it might as well be. Nine out of 10 students attending this Chicago high school come from low-income households, where highly...
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The Detroit Food Academy Makes Teens Food Industry Ready
Nineteen-year-old Hassan Amaleki is on the fast track to a successful career in the food industry. By the time he graduated from high school in 2015, Amaleki had worked for a thriving food business,...
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Devon Gibson: Sprouting a Commitment to Food and Community
“When I was in the second or third grade, we went to the outdoor education center, which was like an old farm,” Gibson recalls. “They had farm animals they shipped in only when kids came in.” But they...
View ArticleDoes Your Food Define You? Sophie Egan Thinks So.
In her new book, Devoured: From Chicken Wings to Kale—How What We Eat Defines Who We Are, Sophie Egan invites readers to take a hard look at the American food psyche. The food writer and a program...
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A Striking Number of College Students are Food Insecure. Can Campus Farms Help?
It’s a bright, windy, late spring morning after a week of torrential rain, and the crops at the Kingsborough Community College (KCC) Urban Farm at the southern end of Brooklyn are flourishing. Beets...
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Building Herds and Improving Lives in the Deep South
Starting a herd of cattle is expensive, no matter where you live. The price of cattle has gone up and down over the past few years, but in the current market a landowner can look at between $8,500 and...
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Leopold Center Avoids Shut-Down, but its Future Remains Uncertain
[Update: On Saturday, May 13, Iowa governor Terry Branstad vetoed a line-item in the state’s budget bill that would immediately close the Leopold Center. However, because no state funds have been...
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Top Chef Judge Gail Simmons on Food, Farming, and Building Community
Local Roots NYC is a for-profit Farm Share program that started in 2011 to build community and strong connections between New Yorkers and local farmers. Now serving 750 households in 22 neighborhoods,...
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Slow Food Nations: Seeking ‘Good, Clean, and Fair’ Food for All
Speaking to a crowd already overheating at 10 a.m. in the intense July sun, school gardens pioneer and doyenne of the good food world Alice Waters reminded an audience of about 500 people how much...
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The Cooking Class Bringing Better Health to the U.S-Mexico Border
Olivewood Gardens and Learning Center catches most people by surprise. The large, idyllic, white Craftsman home sits atop a hill, standing out from the small, suburban ranch homes that surround it in...
View ArticleThis Visionary is Helping Hospitals Take Food Seriously
Marydale DeBor loves her job. The pixie-sized woman, with a short crop of gray hair and funky glasses, runs Fresh Advantage, a consulting firm that helps hospitals and medical schools integrate...
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