Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A vermiculture compost bin used to teach schoolkids about composting with red wriggler worms. (Photo by Bella Quiroa) We see ...

The garden at Marietta Middle School now bursts with sage, lemon balm, peppers and other herbs, but the bright space in the building’s center was not always this way. Its impressive growth is due in ...

Maureen Goodwin, St. Joseph School principal, said introducing the composting proposal made sense at the parish, which is known for its fish fries, festival and other celebrations that feature food.

A school year is 180 days, with no two days and no two schools exactly alike. The students differ, the teachers differ, school cultures differ. Here, our photographers find what makes our school days ...

Students at all seven public schools in Falmouth will be composting by the end of this school year. The district is joining other schools across the region that have launched efforts to keep tons of ...

Before the recess bell rings at West Hartford’s Duffy Elementary School, fourth-graders Paige Ference, Olivia Malone, Alex Martinez and Maggie Osborne gather up what remains in their lunchboxes and ...

On a weekday morning at New Harmony High School, a charter school in New Orleans’ Bywater neighborhood, world geography teacher Alicia Cooke took up her post in the cafeteria. She stood next to three ...

When the lunch bell rings, the trash cans fill up. Half-eaten slices of pepperoni pizza. A torn banana. A pair of apples. Take a look at any high school cafeteria, and you’d probably see this very ...