School garden programs are vital to students’ education and health
Washington Post - 2/11/2010. By Barbara Damrosch – Caitlin Flanagan, writing in the current issue of the Atlantic, imagines a scene in which a poor Mexican immigrates to California to do farm work in hope of a better life for his son, only to have him wind up in Alice Waters's Edible Schoolyard garden. |
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More Mainers seeking food help
Bangor Daily News - 2/10/2010. By Meg Haskell – As the economy stagnates and unemployment rates remain high, demand for food assistance in Maine is increasing. A recent report released by the nation’s largest domestic hunger relief organization, Feeding America, found that unprecedented numbers of Mainers are seeking emergency food assistance from their local food pantries. |
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High levels of contaminant found in osprey eggs
Portland Press Herald - 2/9/2010. By John Richardson – Osprey eggs in Casco Bay contain stain repellent and other industrial chemicals at levels that may be harming the birds, according to a Gorham-based researcher. The study adds to the growing evidence of industrial chemicals accumulating in the environment, potentially threatening human health and wildlife, said Wing Goodale, a scientist at the BioDiversity Research Institute who led the study. |
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Use pumpkin as a versatile base for soups
Bangor Daily News - 2/6/2010.By Sandy Oliver – Whatever pumpkins we haven’t used by now do begin to get spots on them by this time of year. What to do with them? I could cook them and freeze the pulp for pumpkin bread or waffles. I could make pie, which would make the other person in this household a very happy camper. My personal opinion is that a person can eat just so much pie, and I think pumpkin is a nice vegetable. I cook it sometimes as if it were a squash. |
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