By Maggie Lickter
Let’s start with The Question. It is asked in different ways. Sometimes it is posed as “What can I do?” or “How do I make a difference?” or “What types of things should I buy that make the biggest difference?” or as a recent student asked “I’m all about the use of foods [...]
Posts Tagged ‘local’
Pinching pennies, potlucks, and politics…
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged consumption, economy, local, organic, saving money, sustainable agriculture on April 27, 2009 | 4 Comments »
Regional, Seasonal: Feasible
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged AASHE, Environmental Campus Organization, local, organic, Truman State University on April 6, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the AASHE (Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education) conference last fall (2008), Vandana Shiva spoke to an eager audience that everything eats, no exceptions. The soil eats compost nutrients and manure, the plants eat soil and water, and humans (among other animals) eat those plants. There are, of course, many more [...]
Food = Community
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Campus Kitchens Project, community, food, local, organic on April 2, 2009 | 1 Comment »
By Elizabeth Whitehurst
During my senior year in college, I worked part-time at a locally-owned health food store, ringing up organic herbs and agave nectar, stocking kombucha tea and fair trade energy drinks. Gary, who tended fields when he left work, taught me the best way to chop an onion. Afternoons when business was slow became long, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Good Food: all dressed up with nowhere to go.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Food Literacy Project, Harvard, local, organic, student concern, sustainable on August 18, 2008 | 4 Comments »
By Caroline Merrifield
It was a magical dining hall food moment, even better than that one time they served Chinese broccoli and pesto couscous at the same meal. Sitting in our warmly-lit dining hall at the end of a crisp fall day, my friends and I shared fresh salad, autumn soup, roasted squash, cranberry stuffing, and pumpkin pie, [...]
Reveling in the Gastro-Revolution
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged agriculture, Boston University, local, Slow Food, Sustainable Food on August 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
First of all, congrats to everyone who has posted on your school’s behalf. There is nothing more motivating than seeing how others are engaging in and, with some inevitable obstacles, making strides in the sustainable foods movement. It is absolutely imperative that we keep our voices loud and move forward together, supporting each other in [...]
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; [...]
