The project took nearly two years to complete and required significant planning and engineering design input. “If you’re a beer drinker you’ll understand that one of the most important production processes in a malthouse is the preparation of the barley for malting,” said Crouch. On this customer’s site, they had a box feeder grain system on an upwards rolling chain conveyor system that turns and washes the barley in a big concrete bath that is about 40-50 metres in length […]
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Epretty Wednesday in the course of the developing year, Emilyn Sosa picks up a box of produce from a local community centre in Brooklyn crammed with the week’s harvest. This might include things like carrots, beets or sometimes kohlrabi, which she cooks up into soups and salads for her family members of five. The price tag? It’s no matter what Sosa judges to be fair. For a weekly box, the 33-year-previous pays about $15 (£12). If she ended up to […]
Year round, HCA Healthcare colleagues support local food banks, pantries and soup kitchens through volunteer service, monetary gifts and in-kind donations. This holiday season, HCA Healthcare continues our efforts to fight food insecurity with the second annual enterprise-wide Healthy Food for Healthier Tomorrows Food and Nutrition Drive. During the month of November, HCA Healthcare and our colleagues provided 878,000 nutritious meals to food banks in the communities we serve by donating food or making financial contributions to help purchase perishable […]
Food insecurity has been rising since 2018. Even before Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the increasing frequency and severity of climate shocks, regional conflicts and the pandemic were all taking their toll, disrupting food production and distribution, and driving up the cost of feeding people and families. The situation took an even more dramatic turn with the war in Ukraine. This pushed the prices of food and fertilizers higher still—hurting importers and prompting several countries to impose export restrictions.The result is […]
Posted by Sandra MacMartin, Public Affairs Specialist with guest author Paul Birkbeck, SNAP Program Specialist, Utah Department of Workforce Services in Food and Nutrition Nutrition Security Jul 27, 2022 My name is Paul Birkbeck, and I have worked with SNAP for 26 years and have been honored to chair Utah’s State Nutrition Action Coalition (SNAC) for the past eight years. Throughout the United States, SNACs are an innovative, collaborative strategy to improve community health through partnerships. I am in awe […]
A young man is behind bars after pointing a gun at three women and escorting them out of a local fast-food restaurant. Taurean Moy, 20, is charged with three counts of aggravated assault and one count of evading arrest after he allegedly pointed a handgun at three women over the weekend. Three women walked into the McDonald’s in the 2000 block of Union Avenue just after 4 a.m. on June 4 to order food, an affidavit said. According to records, […]
Photo: Josh Wussow As a resident of Wisconsin, I’m firmly in the heart of Culver’s country. Among other things, this means I’m never too far from the buttery embrace of a good hamburger. But even with one of the best of the regional franchises within easy reach, I often feel the need to step outside the chains. That’s where Chip’s, my local burger dive, comes into play. With barely a handful of locations, these drive-thru classics are as well-worn as […]
Michelle Dixon of Jackson and Daniel Glasco of Cape Girardeau prepare to load food during a drive-through food distribution April 14, 2020, at Cape First Church in Cape Girardeau. SEMO Food Bank has announced it has received a sizable Disabled American Veterans Charitable Service Trust grant to continue a veterans’ health food program in the region. Southeast Missourian file Sikeston, Missouri-based Southeast Missouri Food Bank, which plans to open a satellite facility in Jackson, has been awarded a $46,500 grant […]
Photo Submitted Staff and student members of the International Culture Team deliver items to the Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry The U of A International Culture Team and Altrusa International Foundation of Fayetteville collaborated this month to provide international spices and foods to the Jane B. Gearhart Full Circle Food Pantry on campus. Many of the international students who visit the food pantry do not see the ingredients they are used to cooking with in […]
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WACO, Texas (KWTX) -Produce vendors at the Downtown Waco Farmers Market hope to help more people embrace their New Year’s resolutions to ear healthy this year. It was a packed house for the first market of 2022 as buyers, some for the first time, flocked to produce booths hoping to start the year off on a healthy note. Produce vendors at the farmers market say unlike grocery stores, produce here is available only when they’re in season. “Right now it’s […]
