Espiritu School in south Phoenix, serving breakfast and lunch to 600 kids, nearly doubled or tripled its orders for local food last winter, said Cesar Ruiz, a consultant for the Farm to School ...

And it’s not just in Utah. With schools back in session, many school districts will be putting food from local farms on kids’ lunch trays. Farm-to-school programs can manifest in many different ways, ...

Needham schools cut down on food waste with reusable metal trays 02:21. Schools in Needham, Massachusetts have cut down on their food waste by replacing their old cafeteria lunch trays with ...

FITCHBURG — Being eco-friendly is extremely important in Fitchburg Public Schools. In Nutrition Services, a switch to compostable, non-styrofoam food trays has been in the works for close to ...

More schools in the North Country are getting interested in putting local fruits and vegetables on kids' lunch trays. But buying directly from farmers is more complicated than buying from big food ...

Titled “Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray,” the free exhibition at Philadelphia’s Science History Institute examines school lunches in the United States through ...

Lunchtime at Mosby Woods Elementary School in Fairfax, Va., in 1979. The image is part of the exhibition “Lunchtime: The History of Science on the School Food Tray.” ...