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		<title>Shareable Food and the Law</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/12/shareable-food-and-the-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:02:54 +0000</pubDate>
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From Shareable here&#8217;s a really comprehensive and interesting article on innovative ways that people are sharing food.
The Health Department didn’t show up when I made dinner for my neighbors last night. Fortunately, our health and safety laws don’t usually dictate how we prepare food in our personal and private realms. But humans have a natural [...]


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		<title>USDA People&#8217;s Garden Initiative Trainings</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The USDA People&#8217;s Garden Initiative promotes growing healthy food, people and communities. It encourages USDA employees and communities to plant gardens because we believe the simple act of planting a garden can make real and lasting change to improve food access and healthy lifestyles.
The USDA People&#8217;s Garden Initiative brings you this series of training sessions [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/03/when-do-i-plant-beets-again/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: When Do I Plant Beets Again?'>When Do I Plant Beets Again?</a></li>
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		<title>New Research Article Shows Benefits of Cooking and Gardening, Again!</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/09/new-research-article-shows-benefits-of-cooking-and-gardening-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/09/new-research-article-shows-benefits-of-cooking-and-gardening-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2011 17:05:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urban Farm Hub Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From PubMed:

J Am Diet Assoc. 2011 Aug;111(8):1224-30.
LA Sprouts: a gardening, nutrition, and cooking intervention for Latino youth improves diet and reduces obesity.
Davis JN, Ventura EE, Cook LT, Gyllenhammer LE, Gatto NM.

Source
Department of Preventive Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA. jaimieda@usc.edu


Abstract
Evidence demonstrates that a gardening and nutrition intervention improves dietary [...]


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<li><a href='http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2010/07/usda-study-shows-taxing-empty-calories-reduces-waistlines/' rel='bookmark' title='Permanent Link: USDA Study Shows Taxing Empty Calories Reduces Waistlines'>USDA Study Shows Taxing Empty Calories Reduces Waistlines</a></li>
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		<title>City Fruit September Update</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/09/city-fruit-september-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 Sep 2011 12:55:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urban Farm Hub Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From our friends at City Fruit:
Hi everyone,
Indian summer is the best – especially when it’s our only summer.  Italian plums and Asian pears are coming in this month, and it was an amazing fig year.   So, please, enjoy the harvest and eat some fruit. And take a cooking class (see below)!   Fruit tip:  It&#8217;s [...]


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		<title>Life and Death and Urban Ag</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/08/life-and-death-and-urban-ag/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Aug 2011 16:52:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urban Farm Hub Team</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Increasing numbers of the world&#8217;s poor now live in urban areas.  How can urban ag feed this population and what are the risks to farming in the urban environment?  Richard Stren from the Centre for Urban and Community Studies, University of Toronto, seeks to answer this question in his publication:  Healthy city harvests: Generating evidence to guide [...]


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		<title>Increasing Local Foods in School Lunches</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/08/increasing-local-foods-in-school-lunches/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Aug 2011 21:00:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Vergis Vinh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Check out this report to see what a difference seven cents can make in increasing local foods in school meals.
What if schools had an additional $.07 per meal to spend on buying local foods for the lunch line?
During the 2008-2009 school year, researchers at Ecotrust set out to answer this question, placing particular emphasis on [...]


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		<title>City Fruit August Update</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/08/city-fruit-august-update/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 08 Aug 2011 15:59:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Urban Farm Hub Team</dc:creator>
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By Gail Savina
Two weeks ago I went to check out some fruit trees on the property of a church in south Seattle.  When I got to the church the first thing I saw was a long line of people &#8212; mostly elderly and Asian &#8212; clutching bags and patiently waiting.  Each bus that went by dropped off more [...]


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		<title>Pierce County Gleaning</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/07/pierce-county-gleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 12:07:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Vergis Vinh</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Lakewood Patch here&#8217;s news on gleaning in Pierce County.  For more info on gleaning in King County check out Solid Ground and City Fruit.
It is a little bit of work with a lot of impact and they call it the Pierce County Gleaning Project.
The project combines the Emergency Food Network and St. Leo’s Food [...]


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		<title>Landmark Labeling for GM Food</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/07/gmfoodlabel/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jul 2011 11:02:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cathy Tuttle</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Regulators from more than 100 countries agreed on long overdue guidance on the labeling of genetically modified (GM) food on July 5, 2011. This is a landmark decision for the food we eat.
The Codex Alimentarius Commission, made up of the world’s food safety regulatory agencies, has been laboring for two decades to come up with [...]


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		<title>New Community Garden in Des Moines</title>
		<link>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/07/new-community-garden-in-des-moines/</link>
		<comments>http://www.urbanfarmhub.org/2011/07/new-community-garden-in-des-moines/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Jul 2011 12:01:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Diana Vergis Vinh</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Farmers]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Food Access]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[From the Waterland blog here is information and lots of lovely pictures of a new garden that just opened in Des Moines. 
In 1996 the City of Des Moines received a 9.3 acre plot of land adjacent to Parkside Elementary School. The land came courtesy of Daisy Sonju and her family.
15 years and a lot of planning [...]


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