Student involvement and leadership in the campus gardens

Students at the University of Utah have the chance to be involved in the Edible Campus Gardens all year long. In the fall gardeners can grow produce into late October and can collect leaves to use in compost materials. During the winter months students can prepare the gardens with compost and can grow certain weather hardy vegetables. Then finally in the spring and summer months are when the most produce can be grown and enjoyed all around campus. Students  can volunteer and are paid in fresh produce and they can also take leadership positions like the garden experts shown in the video.

Get to Social Soup

Social Soup is a monthly event hosted by the Utahn's Against Hunger, and offers incredible insight into food and nutrition in Utah. Students enjoy fresh, homemade soup while taking in an interactive lecture on what they can do to help themselves and others eat a proper diet. Students enjoy the event and reccamend it to anyone interested in becoming more informed about what they take into their bodies.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G2piCmxuzRQ

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker takes the Food Stamp Challenge

Newark, New Jersey Mayor Cory Booker takes the Food Stamp Challenge


http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/12/07/booker-presidential-run-not-even-in-the-realm-of-consideration/?hpt=hp_t3

I saw the following story on CNN online and thought it worthy to copy and pass along here.
Way to go Mayor Booker!


Newark, New Jersey, Mayor Cory Booker did not deny his interest in seeking higher political office in an interview on CNN's "Piers Morgan Tonight" Friday, when he also spoke about living for a week on food stamps.

"It's a little more difficult than I imagined," said Booker, a Democrat. "I thought it would be good on eating on a tight budget, so I started out not really marshalling my food well, so I'm really cutting back now."

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Booker said he resolved to spend a week eating only what he could afford on credits from the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program after an online conversation "with a woman who was pooh-poohing government's role in providing nutrition for kids" went viral.
He described his week, which concludes this weekend, as an effort to raise awareness about "food insecurity," obesity and other food-related issues.

Among the most challenging aspects, he said, was giving up caffeine.
"Going out and getting a cup of coffee at Starbucks will wipe out your entire allowance for a day, and for a guy who was admittedly caffeine-addicted, I am now going through a bit of a withdrawal," he told CNN's Piers Morgan.

"This is one thing, the challenges for me right now, complaining about the headache and caffeine withdrawal - I'm off this in a week," he added. But, he continued, there are working families who rely on SNAP and similar programs.

CNN

The Food Stamp Challenge 2012

In November 2008, fewer than 31 million people were on food stamps.  Today there are over 46 million Americans were receiving benefits through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).  With a population of just over 308 million, almost 15 percent (1 in 7 Americans) count on the program in order to survive.  Because of this and the need that is out there for food assistance, the Food Stamp Challenge was born.  This week long challenge consists of living on a food budget of four dollars a day.  While living on a food stamp budget for just one week cannot come close to the struggles encountered by low-income families’ week in and week out.  Taking part in the challenge provides great insight and will give you a whole new perspective and greater understanding about hunger in America.

Bishops Storehouse Final Nat Pack

                            Nat Pack about the contributions that the LDS Bishops
                          Storehouse makes to the community and the world at large.

 Director of the Sugarhouse Community Garden, Heidi Spence talks about all of it's features and participants.

The tale of two local farming families from the south end of the Salt Lake Valley.  Each telling their sides of farming and the struggles to keep pushing on, or too get out of the business before it bankrupted their family.