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Making Richmond healthy on a dime
As obesity sweeps the nation and a book about health or food seems to come out every other week, a few people in Richmond are doing their best to reverse the weight gain trend and improve the city's...
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Cafeterias digest lunch regulations
In Richmond, a city in which 51 percent of students in grades 5, 7 and 9 were obese or overweight in 2010 and where two-thirds of students are from families near and below the national poverty line,...
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Richmond community members petition for more salad bars in schools
Affordable and sustainable food is a priority for Laneisha Whitfield, the director of the Richmond Food Policy Council, and her young campaigners. So on February 17, the Richmond Food Policy Council...
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Richmond farms such as AdamsCrest provide nourishment for bodies and minds
Urban Tilth has created a new source of affordable, fresh, and local food for Richmond residents through its CSA box program. While the food helps improve physical wellbeing, the act of growing it...
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Around the Way: Richmond youth living the green life at AdamsCrest Farm
AdamsCrest Farm gives Richmond residents, like Diana Leal, an opportunity to learn and farm in their community.
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Farmers prepare the fields for winter in a lot neighboring the industrial metropolis of Richmond, Calif. They harvest the last of the tomatoes and basil and plant broccoli and brussels sprouts. Demand...
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