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Local church becomes the place for a cheap meal (The Polk County Democrat)
Stretching the food dollar is a little easier thanks to Angel Food Ministries and First Baptist Church of Bartow.

Want to eat better? Start from the ground up (Albert Lea Tribune)
March is National Nutrition Month. During National Nutrition Month, the American Dietetic Association reminds everyone that an easy way to focus on eating better is to start from the ground up!

Get Your Irish Up (GOOD)
For St. Patrick’s Day, get to know your Éire-inspired words, from Irish apricots to Irish wolfhounds. St. Patrick’s Day is a time to remember the history and celebrate the culture of the Irish people. Shamrocks! Blarney stones! Claddagh rings! The brogue! James Joyce! Irish apricots! Irish apricots? According to an Oxford English Dictionary quote, Irish apricot is a slang term for a potato ...

Tend trees now; get abundant fruit later (Great Falls Tribune)
Begin tending your fruit trees in late winter and continue through the spring for an abundant crop this summer and for years to come.

Tulare's Abundant Life Center hosts inaugural food giveaway (Visalia Times-Delta / Tulare Advance-Register)
The Abundant Life Center served 28 people at its first food distribution Friday.

School Lunches (Wahoo Newspaper)
Bishop Neumann, St. Wenceslaus, St. John’s

Moth Captured (San Diego Reader)
The California Department of Food and Agriculture says the first “light brown apple moth” ( Epiphyas postvittana ) to appear in San Diego has been trapped in a Bonsall lemon grove.

Diane Prather: 1 recipe of many mincemeat variations (Craig Daily Press)
Thanks so much to all of the readers who have sent in recipes for mincemeat and pemmican. Who would have thought there were so many mincemeat recipes? This week’s first mincemeat recipe calls for green tomatoes. What a great way to use up all those green tomatoes in the fall.