Fund Connects Minority Farmers to Charities Serving the Hungry Carter Jones Minneapolis / St. Paul Business Journal Farmers who operate small and mid-size farms that produce fruits and vegetables are sitting on crops that are ready to harvest, but have nowhere to sell them as farmers markets, schools, corporate cafeterias [...]
School lunch as we know it is over. But for school nutrition directors, the lessons keep coming. Jessica Fu The Counter They overhaul their operations on the fly. They feed families now, too. And they’re reinventing lunch programs for the coming year with fewer workers, untold variables, and multimillion-dollar budget [...]
Solidarity Message from the Twin Cities Good Food Purchasing Program Coalition "You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time." - Angela Y. Davis Dear friends, These past few weeks have been a time of great [...]
Want to Sell Produce to Schools? Know These Tips Tom Karst The Packer Students may be a captive audience at lunch time, but school foodservice officials say they want options and ideas from produce marketers to present fruits and vegetables to kids in an attractive way. Dayle Hayes, president of [...]
The Next Wave for Good Food Pete Huff Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy Every day of the school year, more than 80,000 meals are served in the cafeterias of the Minneapolis and St. Paul Public School Districts—that’s over 1.3 million meals a year. While these school districts are two of the largest in [...]
