Today’s snack food aisle in the grocery store contains a lot more products than when I was a kid. Back then, we mainly had potato chips and saltines, but not much more. Now there’s a multitude of choices designed to help you satisfy your cravings for something crunchy.
Lots of us have observed that foods that are good for us – broccoli and bean sprouts – don’t trigger intense cravings. In the late afternoon, when my energy is low, I want a cookie or a piece of chocolate, not a green pepper.
PULLMAN, Wash. – Topics ranging from organic foods and certification to chemicals in food and food allergies will be the focus of a new class offered at Washington State University this fall.
About 10,000 years ago Earth’s climate lurched from bitter Ice Age conditions to the much balmier time in which we live today. We don’t fully understand what caused that great climate shift, but we know it was near the time of that great temperature transition that people started to farm. And one of the crops […]
PULLMAN, Wash. — On Oct. 24, Washington State University students, staff and faculty are joining hundreds of farmers, co-ops and community organizations across the country in the first national Food Day. Food Day organizers at WSU have scheduled a number of activities on campus as part of the national effort to raise food consciousness. Food […]
SEATTLE, Wash. – When the youth of Delridge and White Center’s Food Empowerment Education and Sustainability Team or FEEST set local foods they’ve prepared on a pre-Thanksgiving table at the Youngstown Cultural Arts Center here on Nov. 25, they’ll have the power of the prestigious W.K. Kellogg Foundation behind them. Giving children in those communities […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Since 1909, four generations of the Wilcox family have lived and worked at the main farm’s location at Roy, just outside Tacoma. Today, Wilcox Family Farms is one of the leading egg producers in the country and a leader in organic agriculture. That journey is the topic of a public conversation at […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – The Organic Center, a national non-profit organization supporting research and education on the consumer and environmental health benefits of organic food and farming, has donated another $30,000 to support organic agriculture research and programming at Washington State University. This latest donation brings the total in gifts and grants to WSU from the […]
PULLMAN, Wash. – Linda Kirk Fox, associate vice president and dean of Washington State University Extension, has been named a national “hero” by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program for her work as co-chair of the EFNEP Task Force. Connie Strode-Castor, an Extension educator who has provided nutrition education to […]
PORT ANGELES, Wash. – Exploring how a new generation of small farmers and other community members with an interest in developing a more sustainable farm and food system might better connect through local granges is the topic of an upcoming meeting in Sequim. Sponsored by Washington State University Clallam County Extension and the Sequim Prairie […]