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A Farm and Restaurant Program that Helps Foster Kids Succeed
California State Fullerton ‘grows people and food’ to empower foster kids with life-long skills.
Fullerton restaurant serves up skills to foster-care youths
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Arboretum Buzzes With Beehive Research
Most students who come to Cal State Fullerton do not expect their learning experience to include live, stinging insects. But for anthropology graduate student Cailin McLaughlin and alumnus Steve Sagastume ’19 (B.S. electrical engineering), that is exactly what has happened. As members of U-ACRE, Urban Agriculture Community-based Research Experience, the two have regularly suited up in ...
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Rooting for the Arboretum
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Lessons From the Lowly Sweet Potato
Teresa Zamora surveys the pantry at Monkey Business Cafe and spies the new arrivals — fresh sweet potatoes, still caked with field mud. Flipping through the vast library of recipes in her mind, she settles on sweet potato pie and sweet potato muffins.
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OC's Monkey Business Café offers jobs, other opportunities for foster care teens
Monkey Business Earns Healthy Food Certificate
The Fullerton Collaborative and The Downtown Business Association has presented its first Healy Foods Certificate to Monkey Business Café.
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Cal State Fullerton program digs into farm-to-table culture to help students, foster youth
This is the first story in an occasional series about how the Fullerton Arboretum, Cal State Fullerton’s U-ACRE program and Monkey Business Cafe in Fullerton are partnering to provide farm-to…
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CSUF student researchers look to sweet potatoes as natural alternative in fighting aggressive weed – Orange County Register
This is the third story in an occasional series about how the Fullerton Arboretum, Cal State Fullerton’s U-ACRE program and Monkey Business Cafe in Fullerton are partnering to provide farm-to ...
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