Ohio farm family teaches kids nutrition
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Bobby Jones hopped off his John Deere tractor and herded a dozen children over to a row of cherry tomato plants.
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By Tara M. Manthey, The News Tribune, Tacoma, Wash.  Sep. 23--Erica Palmer imagined she was making a presentation to her grandmother, not the governor.   The sixth-grader held that picture in her head as she explained Spanaway Elementary School's gardening project to Gov.
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VOLANT, Pa. - Archie Glenn's family made sure he was Deere-ly departed. The 99-year-old dairy farmer had a passion for John Deere tractors. So at his Feb.
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Many people have so little knowledge of farming they don't realise which foods are domestically grown.   A survey commissioned by the charity Leaf (Linking Environment and Farming) claims that more than one in four (29%) of the 1,700 adults questioned had never set foot on a working farm.
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Leaflets on how to make a healthy packed lunch is to be given to parents, the BBC has learned.
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An earthy abundance from local farms comes through the loading docks of the Culinary Institute of America: sprigs of asparagus in the spring, peas and beets in the summer, apples and squash in the fall. The food &#151; much of it taken from the soil the day before &#151; provides fresh fodder from the Hudson Valley for the riverside school's five restaurants and classroom kitchens.
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Children will be offered cooking lessons to improve their kitchen skills and to encourage a better diet.
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THOMPSON, Ohio - A high school principal said guidelines for a living skills class will be changed after a 16-year-old student skinned and cooked a Guinea pig and a rabbit during class.
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By Dave Dewitte, The Gazette, Cedar Rapids, Iowa  Sep. 10--HIAWATHA -- Sean Taylor remembers the startled reaction when he  asked his school-age son why he'd purchased six Sunny Delight orange drinks  from the school's cafeteria in one day.
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School districts across the country have been taking steps to make food in schools healthier, but some parents say they are taking it too far.
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Editor, New Era:           The Farm Safety Committee of the Lancaster County Safe Kids works so hard throughout the year to put together an exciting Farm Safety Day Camp for the children.
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Family snaps help relieve ovine "separation anxiety"
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By Keith Lawrence, Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Sep. 17--It started so simply.   Joi Sigers, a Madisonville native, was home schooling her three daughters.   And she worried that they weren't getting the kind of computer training that public schools could offer.
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A novel idea has been introduced by Mount Nittany Middle School that allows students to pick up bagel, muffin, cold cereal and fresh fruit from âgrab-and-goâ food cart parked near the principal&#39;s office.
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By Erin Stewart Deseret Morning News  Utah high school students may soon know how to produce pesticides from living cells before they even know how to drive.
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Bob Fuchigami was 12 years old when he and his family were told to leave their 20-acre farm in northern California. The peach trees that his immigrant parents had planted were about to yield their first big crop.
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By Jennifer Kapiolani Saxton, Belleville News-Democrat, Ill.  Feb. 9--EDWARDSVILLE -- A healthy life is much more than just eating right and exercising, said a Lincoln Middle School student Thursday during the school's health fair.