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A Foundation for Whole Kids

Improving children’s nutrition may be the reason why the Whole Kids Foundation has helped to fund more than 900 school gardens and 1,500 salad bars

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Mushroom Hunter

By Alabel Chapin Photography of boletes by Nathaniel Chapin and of Alabel with chanterelles by Elizabeth Chapin We are hunting for mushrooms, and I find myself

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Table of Learning

By Shelby JohnsonPhotography by Sharon Doerre In March, a class of excited St. Francis School eighth-graders went to Italy. The trip was organized through NETC

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New Talent in the House

Photography By Toni Tipton-Martin This spring, four high school culinary students were granted an opportunity that few seasoned chefs experience. Lupe Pirul and Donna Lee

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Make A Stand

By Alabel Chapin Photography by Jenna Noel  One Saturday morning many years ago, I woke up knowing exactly what I wanted to do on that

Little Hands, Big Plans

By Archer Honigschmidt and Sage Swenson (with a little help from their mamas)Photography by Chasity Whittington As winter was closing up shop in Austin this year, two small-but-mighty

Bake My Soul

It was a bad hair day, unbearably hot outside and just a rotten, no-good Tuesday. My precious loaves came out of the oven squat and

Growing Farmers

“You get to dig . . . with a fork!” With this simple, enthusiastic declaration, six-year-old Adeline Merritt shares a favorite part of her morning’s

The Pastry Chef Daughter

By Ella Speer I walk in the front door after school on Friday and smell something delicious. Even though my dad’s main titles are Executive

Guilty Pleasure

By Katie Fullerton I used to eat sugar snap peas by the pound, and truckloads of celery—stalk after stalk after stalk—any time of the year.

Teaching Balance

By Andrew W. Smiley A diagram of the body’s energy balance equation—what the National Institutes of Health defines as the system of receiving and expending