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Will California’s Drought Bring About $7 Broccoli?
The end of cheap fruits and veggies draws nigh. See Mother Jones recent article here: http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2014/06/california-drought-water-produce-fruit-vegetables
Dont play politics with our childrens health | TheHill.
“Politics should never trump sound policy, particularly when it comes to our kids.”
“Anyone crossing the Benjamin Franklin Bridge from Philadelphia to Camden during most of the twentieth century saw one of the best-known icons of American consumerism, the giant Campbell-Soup-can water towers looming over the company’s flagship cannery. Campbell Soup may have been “America’s Favorite Food,” as the title of the company-sponsored history claims, but it was also much more to residents of the Delaware Valley. South Jersey’s farmers grew the tomatoes that went into the cannery, and at its height in the middle of the century it employed five thousand production workers year-round at its Camden plants. Thousands more high school students, housewives, and temporary workers newly arrived from Puerto Rico or elsewhere swelled the workforce at peak harvesting time.”
For full article, see here: http://philadelphiaencyclopedia.org/archive/campbell-soup-company/
http://opalapples.com/voting.aspx
The Center for Environmental Transformation, my FoodCorps service site in Camden, NJ, is up to receive a 10,000 grant from Opal Apple. Pretty much ALL of the eligible organizations are awesome, but hey, someone’s got to win.
Where will the dollars go?
Eco Interns-a youth development and job training program centered around gardening, cooking, food justice, and entrepreneurship. Interns work part-time for minimum wage at the Center to run the gardens, market, and our new value-added product line.
Voting closes April 29, so do us a flavor and make this happen for Camden youth! (you can vote each day, and more than once using separate internet browsers)
http://opalapples.com/voting.aspx
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