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Gather here to chat, to share triumphs and seeds, and to plan events connected to teacher-garden workshops, Garden State on Your Plate tastings, garden raisings, delicious food and everything else about the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative, a 501c3 that fosters garden- and food-based education!
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Fake Food Coloring & Kids
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About 15 million pounds of petroleum-based dyes are used in food each
year.
And a certain kind of red food coloring, known as “Red 3,” is a known
carcinogen that the FDA
banned<[link]>from
our medicines and makeup in 1990, but it’s still used in our foods.... more »
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School Gardening
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Good Morning
The link below features our gardens at the EJ School.
[link]
Bianca Aniski, MEd, RN, CNM, FN-CSA
Ethel Jacobsen Elementary School
Student Health Services
200 Barnegat Avenue
Surf City, New Jersey, 08008... more »
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Lunch Bites
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Princeton's very own Dorothy Mullen and NJ Farm to School's Beth Feehan
talk about school gardens in the summer!
Announcing the National Farm to School Network's next Lunch Bites webinar,
20 minutes of free information about various Farm to School topics:
*School Gardens vs. Summer Vacation*... more »
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PSGC at Communiversity Festival
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Saturday, April 28, from 12-5, Princeton School Garden Cooperative, Inc. will have a table in Palmer Square at the Communiversity Festival of the Arts in downtown Princeton. Please stop by to learn more about PSGC's programs and how you can get involved, make your own mix of seeds for a patio container of salad greens, and enter a drawing for a raised bed kit.... more »
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Representative asks companies to disclose antibiotics in meat
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Dear all - Please do consider this ongoing risk to public health when
choosing food for yourself and your families:
Slaughter Asks Fast Food Companies, “What’s in the Beef?”
Sends letter asking companies to disclose use of antibiotics in meat
production
WASHINGTON – Congresswoman Louise Slaughter (NY-28), Ranking Member of... more »
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science now: Is Agriculture Sucking Fresh Water Dry?
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[link]
The average American uses enough water each year to fill an Olympic-
sized swimming pool, and global agriculture consumes a whopping 92% of
all fresh water used annually. Those are the conclusions of the most
comprehensive analysis to date of global water use, which also finds... more »
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