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Halloween Party Pays it Forward: How to Give Back and Have Fun
It all started with an idea to throw the greatest Halloween Party ever. But it would become an opportunity to give back in a big...
Battlefields to Farm Fields: Veterans Heal Themselves and Feed a Nation
Because the vast majority of America's farmers are aging fast, the country needs one million new farmers over the next 10 years to continue...
Dunkin’ Donuts & Baskin-Robbins Give a Million Bucks to Put Food in Kids’ Backpacks
The Dunkin' Donuts, Baskin-Robbins Community Foundation just gave $1,000,000 to help put food in backpacks for poor children to take home from school throughout...
Top 6 Books for Growing Your Own Produce
Nothing can compare with the freshness and incredible flavor of home grown fruits, herbs and vegetables. My family can hardly wait to harvest the...
A 140-Acre Forest Is About to Materialize in the Middle of Detroit
After nearly five years of planning, a large-scale attempt to turn a big chunk of Detroit blight into an urban forest is now underway....
Transforming Milwaukee’s Vacant Lots Into A New Agricultural Economy
When the foreclosure crisis hit Milwaukee, the city was already reeling from the loss of 70,000 manufacturing jobs and gowing poverty rate. Yet an...
Fortune 500 Firm Teams With Carolina Nonprofit to Help Urban Families
Volunteers with Sow Much Good say their newly-constructed micro farm on land leased by Martin Marietta will help improve the health of families who...
Inspirational Kids Changing the World One Service Project at a Time
Ian Brennan wasn’t satisfied. Even after helping his local food bank setup a new computer database, he wanted to do more. That’s why he...
Hilton Hotels Sharing Excess Food With Hungry Egyptians and Americans
Hilton Hotels has launched a program to collect safe, surplus food from conferences and daily restaurant operations that would otherwise be thrown away, and...
Good Samaritan Buys Fare and Tickets for Disabled Boy to See Springsteen
Canadian public transportation workers might be off the job in Moncton this summer, but that doesn't mean a wheel-chair bound boy will have to...
College Grads’ New Company Recycles Coffee Grounds into Gourmet Mushrooms You Can Grow at Home
When two college students in Oakland discovered they could grow mushrooms in used coffee grounds, they started a company to recycle the waste from...
Chefs Name Gardens Top Restaurant Trend of 2010 – Sustainability and Healthy Options Also Hot
Gardens have been named the hottest trend in restaurants this year as more chefs involved with the 'eat local food' movement decide to grow...
Redirecting Nature’s Bounty to Feed the Hungry
A New Jersey man produced such a bountiful harvest in his vegetable garden that the neighbors received their fill and his wife wouldn't allow...
Citizens Arrive by the Hundreds to Help the Hungry
A Wisconsin "empty bowls" event featured local pottery artists and bowls fashioned by area schools as a fundraiser for the local food pantry. Hundreds...
Baltimore Schools First in U.S. to Adopt Meatless Monday Menu
Meatless Monday is a campaign that aims to get Americans to cut out burgers and dogs one day each week as a way...
Food Banks Get Help From Prison Inmates
As food bank shelves quickly empty during the recession and more people need help to feed their families, prisons are providing a partial...
Beyonce Concerts Double as Food Drives
For the second year in a row Beyonce is asking her fans to bring cans of food to her concerts to help feed...
Washington, DC Luxury hotel Goes Green (Video)
At the Willard, one of Washington, DC's oldest and most prestigious hotels, the high society guests find recycle waste baskets in their...
Parking Amnesty Nets $28K and Truckload of Food
Lots of delinquent drivers in Salem, Massachusetts redeemed themselves last month by paying off their overdue parking tickets and donating canned foods to...
Ben & Jerry’s Unveils its eCONEomic Relief Plan – Today Only
Give yourself a treat at Ben & Jerry's today for $1.00, when you bring a non-perishable food item as a gift for the local...