A Higher Education: Learning to Cook

by Vera Fabian
I recently finished my 2nd year as a Garden Teacher at The Edible Schoolyard in Berkeley, CA.  I was preparing for a big move across country and a big goodbye to hundreds of students I had come to know and love while working alongside them in the garden and the kitchen classroom.  Many [...]

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The Gill Tract – Urban farm sanctuary, or just another lot slated for development?

by Anya Kamenskaya
It is undeniable that in the last year or so, the media’s discourse surrounding Food has escalated into one that titillates, frustrates, and invigorates people of many professions and inclinations. The very word has taken on many meanings and subtexts: everything from farmworker’s rights to international trade relations to the growing population of [...]

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Doom is Done

“The shorthand ‘ag’ is taking over the agricultural lexicon. The press and the experts love to write and talk about ‘ag industries’, ‘ag products’, ‘ag exports’, ‘ag markets’, ‘ag statistics’ ‘ag engineers’, ‘ag equipment’, or to use parallel locutions like ‘agribusiness’, ‘agri-economics’, and Conagra, the name of an ‘ag’ corporate giant. Lasley’s point is that [...]

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Bon Appétit Management Company Supports Student Gardens

By Nina Merrill
This summer, I had the privilege of interning at Bon Appétit Management Company, a sustainable food service company that I’m sure many of you have heard about because of its innovative programs and sustainable purchasing policies. On the first day of my internship, I went out to lunch with Katherine Kwon, Bon [...]

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School Food Project

By Nicole Wires
Boulder Valley School District (BVSD) is in the process of becoming the second school district in the nation to fully revamp its school food program. No longer will the food served in Boulder Valley school cafeterias acquire intimidating nicknames like “Mystery Meatloaf.” The mission of the new School Food Project, where [...]

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Running to be Sustainable

The list of things I do everyday to lead a more sustainable life is long one and what most of the conscience world does: I shop at the local farmer’s market, I compost and recycle, I take public transportation to and from work, I have the reusable shopping bags, coffee mug and lunch containers, I [...]

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Organic coffee is hot on college campuses

I just received the following press release and thought you would all be thrilled to hear that organic coffee use on campus is continuing to gain momentum…Comments?
GREENFIELD, Mass. Whether a result of bottom-up pressure from students or top-down decision-making from proactive faculty and food service administrators, organic coffee is more available than ever on [...]

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Creating an Edible Landscape

By Kate Turcotte
For this next blog post, I wanted to go back to the basics. There are so many themes to discuss when it comes to creating a more sustainability food system on our college campuses, but lately I have been thinking about the typical college landscape and how that fits into what we are [...]

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“The Delicious Revolution”

It is the height of the growing season: tomatoes are finally red, cucumber vines attach to all their surroundings, and summer squash decide to take over the world.   Just as the garden is at the peak of  its bounty, with more to promise in the wings (winter squash, dry beans, and ground cherries, oh my!), [...]

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Vegan Dinners at UCM

It’s Tuesday night and time for dinner. What are my options? Let’s see…..I could go to Nelson dining hall, but since the only recognizable food is on the salad bar, I think I’ll decline. I could dash over to the Grab n’ Go and snatch a greasy pizza that I will finish in four bites [...]

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