Clean Your Plate: Around the Web This Week

Sounds like we're in for a snowy few days, folks... just in case you'd forgotten that it was winter.  Here's a few things to keep you busy this weekend.  Brew up a nice cup of hot chocolate, pull up the quilt and start clicking.

• Survey says: fruit and veggie consumption dropped in 2009.  Bummer -- let's get that number up again in 2010.
• Find out how a grassroots push for student loan forgiveness could remove a barrier for new farmers...
• First year farmers: a nice piece on a small family farm chronicling the joys (and the growing pains) of starting up.
• All you can't eat: the sad story of food waste in our country.
• Going hungry: The hunger action group FRAC just released some distressing numbers on the rise of hunger in the U.S: 1 in 5 people experienced food insecurity in the last year.

And finally -- don't miss the chance to apply for our paid apprenticeship out at the educational farm.  A seriously once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.

image credit: Todd Ehlers/Creative Commons