Breast milk packs a powerful punch – it aids in infant digestion, provides vital nutrients and hormones, and even helps babies fight infection. Despite the abundance of health benefits that breast-feeding offers both moms and babies, it’s an unfortunate truth that some mothers and children cannot successfully breastfeed. Milk depots have grown popular world-wide because…
In Tennessee, there are approximately 350 children and youth in the state’s care who are looking for a home to call their own through adoption. The majority are older teenagers in foster care who face futures without stable and caring families to guide them into adulthood. Throughout November, the Tennessee Department of Children’s Services (DCS)…
Openings remain for the sixth annual Winter Village featuring Santa and the MTSU Farm Animals, which will be held from 9 a.m. to noon Saturday, Dec. 7, in the main arena at the Tennessee Livestock Center, 1720 Greenland Drive, in Murfreesboro. Alanna Vaught, instructor in the School of Agriculture and whose agritourism club is sponsoring…
