Above: The school lunch that changed Nikki. Back in August, the day before students returned to their place of learning for the fall, I eagerly stood with school employees and Groundwork colleagues in the first lunch line of the year at Boyne Falls Public School. It...
ABOVE PHOTO: Some school food jobs now involve helping manage and teach classes in hoop houses. Pellston schools hoop house shown under construction. My first job in northwest Michigan was at a Montessori school. It was 2006, and I saw how four- and five-year-olds...
If you think about school broadly, not just a way to teach reading, writing and arithmetic, but as a way to prepare people for life, healthy food wisdom is one of the most important bodies of knowledge students can carry with them. Consider that diseases related to...
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