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Despite the best-laid plans and intentions, sometimes we fail to take into consideration what people really need and want.

Have you ever thought about the people who live near the sites where thousands or hundreds of thousands of animals are kept?

We braved the brisk-not-quite-freezing weather and warmed ourselves by planting, cleaning, weeding and performing other farm tasks.

There’s a strategy to creating a harvest list.

Move over, salmon. Make way for sardines.

The 30 student participants, who spent the day exploring the US food system through a public health lens, are among the most advanced learners in the country.

For their food system project, the students made pesto and hummus that they packaged and sold at the carpool lane, using entirely organic ingredients.

Twenty-three students in an animal care and management class spent two months raising 10 Pekin ducks from tiny chicks to roughly eight-pound adults, and then cooked them and ate them.

The Franciscan Center has made great strides in expanding its healthy food initiatives over the past few years.

The poor, said Malik Yakini, become markets for cheap inferior goods sold by the rich, much like in colonized lands.