By Melina Shannon-DiPietro, Director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project
Yale serves 1.8 million meals every single year. All told, its grocery bill is over $8 million dollars, and we are working to turn this grocery bill into a force for good, by purchasing local, seasonal, and sustainable food. In the 2006 – 2007 academic year, [...]
Archive for October, 2008
A National Lunch Table
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Sustainable Food, universal food right, Yale, Yale Sustainable Food Project on October 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Moving On
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged cage-free, dining services, fair, FLO, grass-fed, local, meal plans, organic, UNC Chapel Hill on October 20, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My senior year at UNC-Chapel Hill brought with it so many beginnings that if my internal Spring 2008 graduation clock had not been so persistent, I may never have received my diploma. Thus began a year of confusion and excitement as fellow students and myself founded FLO Food in the fall of 2007. The student [...]
Bringing a CSA to Stanford
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged ALBA, CSA, farm workers, immigrant workers, organic on October 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The idea hatched from a sunny afternoon visit to the ALBA Rural Land-Based Training Institute. ALBA is a haven of organic polyculture in the heart of the Salinas valley, where rectangular armies of monocultured crops in neat rows make diligent watch over the grid of pavement that hosts the frequent trucker and less frequent commuter—hoping [...]
