Code for Asheville will hold the ‘Hack for Food’ event beginning on Friday and continuing on Saturday, where software developers, local-food enthusiasts and others will gather to create new products and tools to innovate and improve the food ecosystem.
A free meals program coordinated by Buncombe County Schools offers free breakfasts, lunches and snacks to kids age 18 and under throughout the county ...
A new program from the N.C. Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services is encouraging chefs to dig into locally grown products this summer.
UPDATED, including further information on Asheville City Council's vote and city staff responsibilities. A resolution to be presented to Asheville Cit ...
An Asheville-based organization is working to build 34 new jobs along with boosting the city’s retail grocery enterprises and food-related job training opportunities.
Inside: A look at current school lunch prices -- and how they've increased -- in the Asheville and the 17 countywide public school systems in Western North Carolina, and the percentage of children receiving free or reduced-priced lunches.
As more kids head back to school this week -- and parents are planning their back-to-school budgets -- the cost of lunchroom meals are going up across the region.
A group of farmers, nonprofits, agencies and others in seven Western North Carolina counties are beginning efforts to form a regional food policy council. They're still formulating goals, but attendees listed a long list of problems residen ...
Starting Monday, any Buncombe County child or teen ages 18 or younger can get a free meal at nearly two dozen locations scattered across the county. The new "Super Summer Meals" program lasts through Aug. 3.
In what is surely good news for food-stressed families, Buncombe County children will be soon be able to get free meals – regardless of the ability to pay – through two programs announced Tuesday at a Buncombe County Board of Education ...
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