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Share this In January 2019, students at Lovin Elementary School in Lawrenceville, Georgia, took a hard look at how much food they were throwing away. It was Taco Day, and as lunch period wrapped up,...
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View ArticleTechnology can help reduce food waste on the farm, but it’s only part of the...
Share this An estimated 30 percent of produce in America never makes it off the farm. That means that for every two heads of iceberg lettuce shipped to a grocery store, one is left to rot. Likewise,...
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Share this After moving around with the US Air Force as newlyweds, Elaine and Jerry Howard returned home and bought a half acre of countryside in Sampson County, North Carolina. It was 1984, and they...
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Share this This Story’s Impact 6.4 million pageviews per month The New Republic In early February 2022, Tom Van Lent sent a note to his employers: He intended to resign from The Everglades Foundation...
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View ArticleJ.D. Vance thinks he knows rural America. Tim Walz begs to differ.
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View ArticleTrump said Democrats would take away your hamburgers. He’s the one who might.
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