Making the Most of School Meals

We hope you’ve been enjoying your free school meals, and they’ve been helping your family stretch your food budget. We do our best to provide a variety of ready-to-eat foods for your child to eat, but realize foods can sometimes be repetitive. If your child is getting tired of some of the foods, don’t toss those extra items! Here are some creative ways to enjoy and store some...

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New Garden Hoses and Springtime Planting

 TOOL TIME Garden Hoses: New Hoses on the MarketWatering your garden by hand in the warmer months is usually a relaxing pleasure unless of course you’re fighting with a cranky hose.Hoses don’t last forever, and when they start to show signs of wear, you may find yourself getting frustrated every time the hose kinks and stops the flow of water.So what’s new in hoses...

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Peppers of All Sorts and Horned Melons

 SPICE IT UPBlack pepper, White Pepper: Peppers of All SortsUntil recently, this next spice, black pepper, was one of the most traded in the world. We’re talking thousands of tonnes of black pepper, can you imagine? But why was that and how does this it grow?On a tree, a shrub or is it an orchid?Did you know that to get black peppercorns, the berries are harvested...

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Small Shrubs by two: Rock Thryptomene and Midgen Berry

PLANT OF THE WEEKThryptomene sp and Thryptomene saxicola F.C.PayneThere are some plants that can be forgiven for not doing much for most of the year, then, when they come into flower, they become the star of the garden.In a way, they behave like a spring or summer bulbs, because they’re practically invisible until they pop out and flower their heads off. So what is this Thryptomene...

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Healthy Ideas for Learning at Home

As the school year has begun virtually for at least the first 9 weeks, how can your family keep healthy while learning at home? The good news is that there are plenty of ways! Most ways require minimal cost, time, resources, and they all help to bring the family together.Unplug and Connect: As students are using technology more right now to learn at home, when students are...

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Rotate Your Crops And Grow Curry Leaves

 CROP ROTATION with The Veggie LadyYou may have heard of crop rotation but perhaps relegated it to the basket where moon planting and biodynamics reside.But did you know that crop rotation isn’t something that gardeners should scoff at because of it’s importance in the life-cycle of plants and insects. In fact it’s a really important strategy that organic gardeners use....

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ارجو الرد العاجل - Urgent Response 16/09/2020

مرحبا قررت الاتصال بك للحصول على اقتراح عمل سيفيد كلانا في النهاية بعد الوصول إلى جهة الاتصال الخاصة بك من خلال دليل الويب في الواقع ، أنا هنا أبحث عن شخص يشرفني و يمكنني الوثوق به والتعاون معه للمطالبات في مصرفنا حيث أعمل ، مقترح العمل هذا هو مطالبة بالميراث أريدك أن تكون بمثابة أقرب أقرباء للعميل الراحل للبنك السيد سيد محمد مير محمدي ، سياسي إيراني ومسؤول رفيع المستوى عمل كمستشار أول للمرشد الأعلى في إيران...

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Taking Breaks During Virtual Learning

The virtual learning environment can be challenging and it is important to schedule time each day for breaks. Students need time to rest their brains the same way adults do. Taking time throughout the day can help students improve their focus and get the most out of online learning. Breaks from learning and classwork are also very important for overall health and wellbeing....

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School Meals and P-EBT Information for September

When school begins next week, many families want to know if school meal sites will still be available for pick up. There will be meal sites for families to pick up meals, but meals sites may look a bit different than they did in the spring.  Meal distribution locations may have changed since this summer. Some counties are offering additional meal pickup locations via...

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Spotlight on Zucchini

Zucchini is a vegetable rich in nutrients and good for digestion. It’s the perfect vegetable to add to your next meal, whether it is part of breakfast, lunch, dinner, or dessert. For ways to buy, store and prepare zucchini, watch this video.Zucchini is fast to prepare for new cooks and for parents who want to cook a healthy family meal. Serve zucchini raw, baked, cooked, or...

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