I thought you might all be interested in this article, released by OTA in August, which is a testament to the fact that all of our hard work is paying off. (Not that you didn’t know that already!) Thoughts?
Increasing number of colleges offer organic coffee to keep students and administrators perking along while minimizing environmental [...]
Archive for September, 2008
Campus Coffee Goes Organic
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, organic, Organic Coffee Collaboration, OTA on September 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Middlebury College Organic Garden: a Space to Learn and to Engage
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged activism, dining services, environmental sustainability, garden, Middlebury College, organic on September 22, 2008 | 1 Comment »
by Dan Kane
I used to love trips to the grocery store with my parents as a child, sitting in the cart, marveling at the ridiculous number of options, aisle upon aisle of impeccably clean boxes, cans, bags of food. There’s something about the order and the consistency of a grocery store that’s both reassuring and [...]
Student Eat-In
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Eat-In, Slow Food Nation, Yale Sustainable Food Project on September 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On September 1st, several hundred people – young and older alike – gathered in San Francisco’s Delores Park to celebrate a palpable feeling of inspiration and optimism. The medium was a large table set with the fruits of all of our culinary labors: sun teas, patés, salads, cheeses, curries, tapenades, hearty breads… the list continues, [...]
Finding a way to establish a market-driven school farm
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Bon Appetit, college garden, St. Olaf, STOGROW on September 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
How an internship, a college and food service mavericks helped a kid from the ‘burbs get passionate about a farm of her own.
By Dayna Burtness
After nearly two years, several grants, lots of days in the garden, too many meetings and thousands of pounds of organic produce sold on-campus and beyond, the St. Olaf Garden Research [...]
Education, Activism, and a Little Fair Trade
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged education, fair trade, NYU on September 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
By Amanda White
I recently attended a barbecue hosted by Annie Myers, featuring her fellow foodie friends, where discussion revolved around how many cucumbers they recently received from their CSA, and the fact that tomatoes aren’t supposed to be as good this year due to the rain pattern. Boy was that a conversation I didn’t fit [...]
SAFE in Berkeley
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged UC Berkeley, urban gardens, workshops on September 2, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Looking back on my last three years of school, it’s becomes ever more clear to me that chance and circumstance play a large role in dictating the direction one’s life will take. It must have been by luck that shortly after moving into a co-op in Berkeley I made friends there with a young man [...]
