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 ‘local food’
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 »
Campus Farmers’ Markets: Part of a Delicious Revolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged farmers' market, local food, Princeton on July 28, 2008 | 8 Comments »
My college career began and ended with a farmers’ market. In the fall of 2004, on a Saturday afternoon, my parents dropped me off at Princeton University for my freshman year of college with an armful of fresh organic fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Just a few hours earlier, I had been setting up tents, arranging [...]
Big Apples
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Aramark, Food and Puchasing Subcommittee, local food, NYU, organic, Real Food Summit, Sustainability on July 10, 2008 | 3 Comments »
New York University has seven dining halls, which many of our 20,000 undergraduate students never use after the expiration of their freshman year meal plan. Until my sophomore spring, while concentrating my academics on Northeast agriculture and sustainable farming, I had no intention of getting involved with the food system at NYU. Having matriculated to [...]
The Local Foods Initiative
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged CSA, Hampshire, local food, organic on July 7, 2008 | 5 Comments »
In the fall of 2007 the Local Foods Initiative at Hampshire College sent representatives to the Yale Real Foods Summit. It was here where I realized how unique Hampshire is. We have a 15 acre CSA, many large hay fields, livestock (cattle, sheep, pigs and chickens), on campus composting, a 30 year old community garden [...]
