Presidential Interfaith Initiative- Bucknell University

12/15/2011

First Roundup-resistant superweeds, and now corn rootworms, a common pest, have grown resistant to Monsanto's Bt corn. The result is bad for more than just the company's stock prices.

11/29/2011

If you can start a garden in an urban area, starting a community garden in Lewisburg should be no problem.

Though life took them in different directions, three childhood friends reunited to work on what they describe as the project of a lifetime -- creating a thriving urban farm in Cleveland's Forgotten Triangle. They're working to produce tasty, healthy food and jobs.

11/15/2011

Looks like pizza sauce will still be recognized as a vegetable.

WASHINGTON — Congress is fighting to keep pizza and french fries on school lunch lines, picking apart an Obama administration proposal to make school lunches healthier.

11/15/2011

Should healthy choices be mandated?

$100 billion of our taxes is used to help (relatively) poor people procure relatively poor food (thanks to the prevailing, if not entirely correct, inverse association between food cost and nutritional quality) -- so they can get to really poor health.

11/11/2011

Find out what the Food Stamp Challenge is all about:

The next two days will be dreadful. I will be tired and bored and hungry, yearning way too much. I could break my oath and grab something, but I will not. I made a promise. I will keep it.

11/10/2011

Come and check out the Bucknell Hunger Banquet on November 16th. Tickets are $10 and on on sale at the Campus Box office. All proceeds support the creation of a community garden in Lewisburg.

Upcoming events sponsored by the "Feeding our Hearts: Expanding our Vision" initiative.