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We had the chance to talk with Nikki Presley, the Director of Farm Initiatives and Communications of the Persimmon Collective Fund, who works to support BIPOC farmers in the Southeast through greater access to land, capital, and technical assistance.

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Leftover cafeteria food at Emerson College will be donated to local students in need this winter break. The Bon Appetit Management Company, which caters Emerson’s dining hall, is donating leftover prepared foods, produce, pantry, and refrigerated items to Food For Free, a non-profit helping fight food insecurity.

On a recent Friday, the menu at Whitman College’s dining hall looked a little different than normal. There was roasted elk, fry bread with huckleberry jam, and cedar plank smoked rainbow trout. These “first foods” are representative of the region’s Indigenous people. And Whitman College will now have a station highlighting them on the first Friday of every month.

Steven Spielberg is among the thousands flocking daily to feast at the most upscale studio employee cafeteria in recent memory, Universal‘s the Marketplace. Jake Holland, executive sous chef, NBCUniversal-Bon Appétit, says 1,600 to 1,700 meals fly out the door each day and about 20 percent of sales are vegan. “The Marketplace has definitely been great for morale,” says one NBCU staffer.