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Children enjoying lunch at New Day School, Portland

Accelerating farm to preschool

With resources and support, child care providers will connect more children and families with healthy, local foods.

Stacey Sobell
May 13, 2014 30 April 2020

Child waiting for lunch in school with a hand over his mouth.

On International School Meals Day, the view from Scotland

We know that food is such an important part of children’s lives, providing nourishment for bodies as well as minds — it is well proven that children learn better when they have had a good meal and are not troubled …

guest
March 6, 2014 01 October 2014

New dollars to help deepen farm to school impact in Oregon

Ecotrust is awarded a new USDA grant to support the Oregon Farm to School program.

Megan Foucht
November 20, 2013 01 October 2014

Students on first-ever Intertribal Energy Tour swing into Sundown

Launched by Redbridge, Inc., a Native American-owned, Portland-based marketing services company, the seven-day tour’s mission is to educate regional tribal youth on renewable energy, tribal utilities, smart grids, carbon offsets and energy-efficiency, energy careers, and to generate awareness of existing …

Emma Deans
July 30, 2013 01 October 2014

Close-up of gourmet pizza.

Local wheat in school pizza? It’s back to class for Oregon farmers

Farm to School typically brings to mind fruits and vegetables — a bowl of bright red apples, or a salad bar station. But for Tom and Sue Hunton, owners of Hunton’s Farm and Camas Country Mill, located southwest of …

Lola Milholland
May 6, 2013 01 October 2014

Two children walking towards a lettuce patch.

New Farm to School grants put local foods in Oregon students’ lunches

The Oregon Department of Education has announced that eleven school districts are the recipients of competitive Farm to School and School Garden grants totaling $189,140. The majority of the funds (87.5%) will be spent on purchasing Oregon food products, with …

Lola Milholland
January 25, 2013 17 March 2015

Landry Mayigane giving a talk at Ecotrust.

Living resilience in Rwanda

It would be perfectly alright for Landry Ndriko Mayigane to celebrate normalcy. He could clock in and out at his government job monitoring diseases and expansion in the Rwandan poultry industry. He could sit back and marvel at how Rwanda’s …

Spencer B. Beebe
November 8, 2012 29 July 2016

Climate change activists Nelson Kanuk (l), Kelsey Juliana, and John Thiebes. Photo by Sam Beebe

Teenagers taking climate activism lead

Today’s young people don’t care about the environment. That’s the claim from a study of two long-term surveys published this month.

Lola Milholland
March 30, 2012 09 March 2020