Month: December 2016

Dole & Food Share Ventura Partner with CPF to Bring Project Learning Garden to 6 More CA Schools!

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By Ventura County Star“Don’t worry if they’re not perfect — enjoy the process,” Bonnie Atmore told a roomful of apron-wearing, glue-wielding, rice-spreading employees of Dole Packaged Foods who gathered recently in a large second-floor conference room at its Westlake Village headquarters.Sprawled over several long tables were containers of glue, bags of rice, paintbrushes and the … Read more

Hold the flavor: Georgia students eating fewer school lunches

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By The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Since 2010, the percentage of Gwinnett County public school students who eat school lunch regularly declined from 81 to 69 percent. School board member Louise Radloff blames Uncle Sam. That year, Congress signed into law a White House initiative pushed by first lady Michelle Obama to make school lunch healthier called … Read more

A group of third, fourth and fifth-grade students gather to listen for frogs

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CPF grantee Pine Valley Elementary School’s Frog Watch USA group was featured in AZA.org. Excerpt from article: It was a balmy evening in March when roughly 75 people—most of them third, fourth and fifth-grade students—gathered at the parking lot of a city park in Wilmington, N.C. The group’s energy was electric as the sun went … Read more

25th Anniversary Benefit Gala Recap

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View photos from the spectacular night. Videos:HRH Prince Charles – Exemplar Award (accepting by video) Tony Juniper – accepting the Exemplar Award on behalf of HRH Prince Charles E.O. Wilson – Exemplar Award Ian Somerhalder – Superhero for Earth Award Hannah Testa – Youth Superhero for Earth Award Xiuhtezcatl Martinez – Youth Superhero for Earth … Read more

Former CPF FoodCorps Service Member Lauren Ladov, Featured in National Geographic

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Water and Life LessonsPosted: December 13By National Geographic Online Dear Educators, Let’s Talk Water Have you and your students experimented with sprouting seeds in the classroom? Set up two growing stations with soil and seed. See what happens when one stations is watered and one is not. From your experiments, you’ll find that water triggers life. … Read more