By Christian Melendez
With tens of thousands of students (and a tall size of visitors), the University of MD has to feed many mouths. Sometimes in life, quality is exchanged for quantity. This is a major concern here in College Park. On top of our large student body, the university includes a Conference and Visitor Services for [...]
Posts Tagged ‘fair trade’
Terps Go Green
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged community food project, fair trade, farmers' market, local food, organic, real food, Sustainability, university of md on April 14, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Farm to Fork
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged campus food movement, fair trade, garden, local, organic, Princeton University on December 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Hi. My name is Steph Hill, and I am a junior at Princeton University. I came to Princeton from a very small town in rural British Columbia. Where we lived, eating healthy, organic food was very much the norm; everyone had, at least, a small garden in their backyard, and often quite a [...]
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 [...]
Public Appeal
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, fair trade, Manhattan College, organic on July 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Manhattan College is a fairly small school with students hailing from a wide variety of demographics. On campus, interest in food reform happens to be concentrated within a very small minority of students. Fortunate to have found each other at all, our little Fair Trade/Food Reform coalition decided, upon organizing, that gaining public appeal and educating our [...]
Cooperation Nation
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Co-Op, fair trade, Hamilton, local, organic, sustainable on July 21, 2008 | 4 Comments »
For the past two years I have been fortunate to live in the Hamilton College Woollcott Co-Op. A community that values organic fair trade and local foods as well as the pursuit of a sustainable lifestyle. The past two years were also the best two years of food living I have ever had and most [...]
Fast Times At Slow Food BU
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged BU, fair trade, local, organic, Slow Food, Terra Madre on July 17, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Started in the nineteen-eighties by Italian food fanatic Carlo Petrini, Slow Food is a social and ecological movement that encourages “good, clean, and fair” food production and consumption. ‘Good’ means that the food tastes good and is good for our bodies; ‘clean’ means that our food is produced in an environmentally sustainable and non-toxic way; [...]
Say that your main crop is the forest: Providence College and community relationships
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged coffee, community garden, fair trade, northeast, organic on July 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »
My name is Kerry, and I am a public and community service major at Providence College, which means that I spend a lot of my time in the community of Providence, Rhode Island, engaging in reflective volunteer service. Last year, I acted as a community liaison between my college and City Farm, a ¾ acre [...]
