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Longtime CWRU Intern Bids a Fond Farewell
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Keri Barron, a graduating marketing intern for Bon Appétit at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, reflects on the skills and lessons she’s learned.
Tecolote’s Farming Motto: Be “Awesome, Not Perfect”
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On a recent visit to Tecolote Farm, Katie Pitre showed students from St. Edward’s University that operating a small, diversified farm is no easy task. However, It’s a job she wouldn’t trade for anything else.
Advice to New Graduates: Eat Like You Give a Damn
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One wonders how we ever ended up where we are today. We never voted or ever had a conscious say on the transformation of agriculture from what it used to be to what it has become.
Farmers’ Market Rounds Out Creation Stewardship Week at Biola
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Bon Appétit and Biola University partnered for Creation Stewardship Week, a celebration to remind students and faculty of the responsibilities humans have to the planet and how personal decisions affect the world around us.
A New Day in the Fields for Farmworkers
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On Friday, the New York Times devoted front-page space to the amazing progress that our longtime partners the Coalition of Immokalee Workers has made toward fair treatment of farmworkers.
Genentech Celebrates Bon Appétit and Other Suppliers
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Genentech presents their Bon Appétit team with the Outstanding Supplier for Environment & Sustainability award at Second Annual Roche Global Facilities Procurement Supplier Recognition event.
Celebrating Farmworker Awareness Week Companywide, March 24-31
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Every day, Americans take the abundance and low cost of our food supply for granted. Ironically, farmworkers — those whose lives are spent harvesting the fruits and vegetables we eat — can rarely afford to purchase them.
Please Welcome Our New West Coast Fellow, Andrew
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After growing up in Nebraska, the land of corn and cattle, I didn’t hear the term “sustainability” until I enrolled at Willamette University in Salem, OR, in 2006. And not until my sophomore year did I really connect the need for sustainability to the food system.
Seeing Seafood Up Close Brings Sustainability into Focus
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As I and the other current and former Fellows learned on our recent field trip to Monterey Bay Aquarium — whose Seafood Watch program has long been an important Bon Appétit partner organization — one thing that sets it apart is its mission to inspire the conservation of the oceans. And inspired we were by the end of the day.