By Meghan Cohorst
As the majority of this country’s agricultural fields lie dormant under a blanket of snow, these cold months are the heart of the growing season in Florida. During the winter, 90 percent of this country’s fresh tomatoes are produced in the state, and workers who form the very backbone of our nation’s food system [...]
Posts Tagged ‘dining services’
a more-complete definition of “sustainable”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged campaign for fair food, coalition of immokalee workers, dining services, farmworkers, food service providers, immokalee, student/farmworker alliance, sustainable on January 26, 2009 | 3 Comments »
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 [...]
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 [...]
