Celebrity chefs, including Tom Collichio, descended on Capitol Hill this week to testify about the roughly 70 billion pounds of food wasted annually in the United States. They will join experts and advocates before the House Agriculture Committee, which is holding its first...
healthy food - Let�s reconnect�June is National fruit and vegetable month. - SIBEJO
Put winter doldrums to rest and reconnect this month with freshness. It�s at your fingertips this month with local farmers markets and roadside stands. Meander around a market and see what looks good to you and take in the abundance of fresh food your local farmers have...
healthy food - Gouverneur Famers Market opens tommorow, June 2 - SIBEJO
The Gouverneur Farmers Market opens on Thursday, June 2, on the Village Green in Gouverneur. The market will be open from 9:00 to 2:00 every Thursday until October.The Canton Farmers Market is open from 9:00 AM to 2:00 PM every Tuesday and Friday until October.The Potsdam Farmers...
healthy food - Summer intern starts - SIBEJO
Greetings! My name is Amanda Korb, a rising Junior at St. Lawrence University studying Environmental Studies and English with a minor in Outdoor Studies. I am ecstatic to be interning for GardenShare this summer for ten weeks!Hailing from a rural town, one mimicking those similar...
healthy food - MODERNIZING SNAP BENEFITS - SIBEJO
SNAP benefit levels are �based on increasingly outdated assumptions, including unreasonable expectations about households� availability of time to prepare food, and need to be modernized,� a new paper explains. It calls for a 20% benefit increase in the short term and more...
healthy food - SNAP fraud by state employees denies people benefits - SIBEJO
New Mexico is supposed to grant people in dire financial situations expedited SNAP benefits within seven days, rather than the 30 it takes to process regular applications. But thousands of New Mexico residents may have been cheated out of those benefits, according to new allegations...
healthy food - The Impact of Minimum Wage Increases on Agriculture - SIBEJO
This is such a complicated issue and I have not waded into it yet as a result. I found this piece on Local Harvest and thought it addressed the issues involved quite well and so just wanted to point GardenShare friends to it.Gloria++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++LocalHarvest...
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