Miami, FL-- On a sweltering hot Saturday, twenty people gathered behind a junior high school. Three students shoveled soil and compost into a new garden bed, while others removed basil, pepper and tomato plants from their pots to place in the fresh soil. Others held boards of wood while a teacher from Miami Dade County Public Schools (MDCPS) nailed the boards together.Teachers and future educators came together to plant a ...

From sun up to sun down, Sunday, September 21st, 6,000 farmworkers, students, and community organizations gathered for North Carolina’s 18th Annual Farmworker Festival. Every September, Father Tony and the Episcopal Farmworker Ministry organize the largest farmworker festival in the state to appreciate and celebrate with their Tar Heel neighbors.UNC-CH student group Alianza traveled an hour to Newton Grove, NC, home of the festival, to celebrate and lend a hand. Members ...

From the new organic garden to the real food café, Boston College knows real food. Inspired by the Northeast Real Food Summit at Yale last year, grad student Michael Cermak and junior Sarah King founded Real Food BC - a student group whose goal is to educate the student body about the importance of local, sustainable food."Real Food has proved to be an important organizing frame to unite people on ...