Students at Yale Line Up for Sustainable Food |
Yale Campus (photo by Kevin Rosseel, courtesy of morguefile.com)
We’ve published several items about student demand for sustainable food sweeping through America’s colleges. The demand is so great that meeting it has become integral to attracting the best and brightest students. In New Haven, Connecticut the Yale Sustainable Food Project is working to meet the challenge. The YSFP aims to "nourish a culture in which the interwoven pleasures of growing, cooking, and sharing food become an integral part of each student's experience at Yale."
According to Yale University’s web site students lined up for organic entrees when given “the opportunity to dine at any of the colleges for a month.” Today, “students across campus can eat a few local, sustainably produced food items each day in their own dining halls.” Those food items include, “Fresh greens from South Glastonbury, CT, apples and pears from an orchard in Meriden, CT, and naturally raised beef from the New England Livestock Alliance.”
If you’d like to visit Yale’s web site to learn more about the university’s sustainable food efforts go to: Yale Office of Sustainability
To view previous posts on the topic click on any of the following:
2. Rensselaer's Terra Cafe Dishes Up Local and Organic Foods
