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The figures cited above underscore how for many children, the lazy, hazy days of summer are marked by gnawing pangs of hunger.
During the school year, low-income children can count on a federal program that provides free and reduced-price breakfast and lunch in the public schools. Come summer, schools close and the food goes away.
Stopgap measures exist. Food banks report increased demand for assistance in the summer months. In the past year, 1.2 million state residents regularly visited food banks, 40 percent of them kids. But, food banks suffer a marked decline in
Read moreThat's what it will take to reach Mayor Greg Nickels' goal for regreening the city over the next three decades -- the planting of 649,000 trees, plus keeping the tree cover we already have.
Since the early 1970s, Seattle has lost more than half of its tree canopy as more businesses and people have moved into the city and smaller homes have given way to apartments and megahouses. Invasive ivy and blackberry bushes have smothered and killed native trees.
Nickels is looking to reverse that trend, Read more
SEQUIM -- The unjust thing, to Kia Kozun, is that it's harvest time in the rich Dungeness Valley, and school is about to start -- yet school children will be eating food from outside the North Olympic Peninsula.
With classes starting Sept. 6 and 40 percent of Sequim students receiving free or reduced-price meals at school, Nash's Organic Produce marketing manager Kozun and Sequim School District superintendent Garn Christensen have food on their minds.
They're thinking about putting locally grown produce onto kids' plates, and Kozun hopes that food will be not only
Read moreIt's apparent John Reganold is a good listener. He may be an even better speaker.
Four years ago during a faculty meeting of his Washington State University agricultural science colleagues, Reganold presented a seminal idea: He proposed starting an organic agriculture major for WSU undergraduates.
"My feeling was the time was right," recalled Reganold. "Production in organic agriculture had increased by 20 percent for eight straight years and is now up to 12 years at that growth rate. Plus, businesses and students alike were contacting me in increasing numbers wondering if we
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