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School Lunch Revival

Season 1 Episode 6 | 24m 40s

All public school kids have access to free or reduced-price lunch. But affordability doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good for them. Detroit’s renegade lunch lady is not only serving kids healthy food, she’s got them growing it, too. Houston schools are joining a national movement with “seed to plate” classroom cooking and ia new generation of service members is connecting farmers and schools.

Aired: 09/10/14
Extras
From the Founding Farmers to the modern Farm Bill, what has 200 years of progress brought?
Explore the disconnect between the belly and the brain and our national eating disorder.
Once, wild food was all there was. If you didn’t pick, catch, or kill it, you didn’t eat.
How can agriculture use less water and still grow enough food for everyone?
Robert Reed and Recology are steering San Francisco toward a Zero Waste future.
Americans throw away 34 million tons of food each year, a quarter of the groceries we buy.
Vandra can do more than compost, she can pickle your food scraps and feed microbes too.
Tim Thornhill is making wine into water at his revolutionary vineyard, Parducci Winery.
All across the country, the ways and means of America's small farmers are evolving.
A new breed of passionate farmers, chefs and scientists are revamping our food system.
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Once, wild food was all there was. If you didn’t pick, catch, or kill it, you didn’t eat.
How can agriculture use less water and still grow enough food for everyone?
Americans throw away 34 million tons of food each year, a quarter of the groceries we buy.
All across the country, the ways and means of America's small farmers are evolving.
A new breed of passionate farmers, chefs and scientists are revamping our food system.
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