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Wed, 02/10/2021 - 10:45am Miriam Entin-Bell, left, and Georgia Kermond planting seeds on the farm last summer. Courtesy of Kelsey Kobik Veggies to Table farm. Courtesy of Billy Smith At Veggies to Table, a grow-to-donate farm, we are busy planning the upcoming growing season and excited to start the first of our seedlings in March. We look forward to a successful third season growing organic produce and flowers to donate to community members experiencing hunger. We have been accepted into the AmeriCorps Vista program ‘End Hunger in Maine by 2030’ and are looking for a qualified ...

And allowing some of these schools to get out, if they do find in onerous. but that's the challenge they're going to face from folks who say, you know, this is actually good for healthy living, healthy eating. it putting children on the right track to avoid obesity. the challenge they're going to have to balance is, those kind of concerns with the concerns from the republican base, who were worried about regulations coming for the obama administration. >> but you know, sabrina, it strikes me, i think we've got a map that shows this. we're talking about -- it's pretty obvious, right? the bill w...

Is slowing down the entire organization. i'm looking at you phone company dsl. check your speed. see how fast your internet can be. switch now and add voice and tv for $34.90. comcast business built for business. let me finish tonight with this nasty little bit of news that some house republicans want to deny school lunches to kids living in the city. while making them available only to poor kids living in rural america. for years, the government has offered lunches to poor kids during the summer. the idea was to keep them nourished in the months they are not at school. for years, the summer...

House bill that specifies that only rural areas in appalachia can benefit from a summer lunch program helping children from know income households. urban areas have been excluded, despite the fact that since 2010, this particular program has helped kids in urban and rural areas. that's not all. the name on the legislation is alabama congress manslaughter robert aderholt. here's a map of his district. it includes 16 counties. now, guess how many of them are covered under this rural summer lunch program? you guessed it. every single county, each one. we reached out to the congressman's office fo...

Coming on the show tonight. >> reverend, as always, you're doing the work of angels. now that you pointed this out, they are running in full retreat. i'm sure you're going to see them correct what they, obviously, you know, want us to believe is a slip-up, but they have been targeting so many efforts, you know, the first lady's effort in terms of trying to get nutritious foods to kids, they want schools to be able to opt out. they've been trying to cut a number of these programs, so this seems to be a situation where, you know, the shoe is kind of fitting in the sense that they haven't shown t...