Midwest fellow Dayna Burtness shares her excitement and concerns about delving into labor issues on farms in Bon Appétit Management Company’s supply chain.
Preeti Mistry Shares Thoughts On Top Chef and The Power Of Fresh Produce
Leaving the Top Chef competition, I could not help thinking how much of a struggle it was to cook without fresh vegetables and herbs that were not available in the Air Force Base kitchen. It made me think of the challenges many Americans face to find fresh produce and healthy ingredients, and the sad results […]
Meet Midwest Fellow Dayna Burtness
Hey everyone! I’m Dayna Burtness, the new Midwest Fellow for the Bon Appétit Management Company Foundation. Carolina and I will be vlogging and blogging here over the next year about our experiences working with chefs, farmers and college students across the country. Check back weekly for updates or subscribe to our RSS feed.
A Student’s View on Farming
After reading Nina's blog posts about working on a student garden guide, Sierra Bintliff, a student at Wesleyan University, was moved to write in about her student farming experience: When I received an email last winter—through a farming listserv organized by Wesleyan University students—about interning for Bon Appétit on a small organic farm at St. […]
Camp Kumquat: Teaching Farm to Fork to the Next Generation
I am currently compiling research about student gardens that sell their produce to the Bon Appétit café on campus. This is a trend that is becoming more and more prevalent around the country. By growing their own food and selling it to Bon Appétit, students are learning about sustainable and local agriculture and providing their […]
Student Farms: The Next Sustainable Frontier
Student farms are hardly a new concept. However, it seems that after the height of the counterculture food movement of the 1960s and 70s, the idea of growing food on your own campus was not as high on students’ priorities list. That has all begun to change in recent years, as students all over the […]
Virtual Tour of Our USF Café
For many of you who have been reading about Bon Appétit Management Company's food, philosophy, and leadership in sustainability, here's a chance to see what a Bon Appétit café actually looks like! Cookbook author Nina Simonds recently visited our team at the University of San Francisco and explored the array of fresh, seasonal, cooked-from-scratch meals in the […]
The Carbon Foodprint Game: Bringing the Low Carbon Diet Calculator into the Classroom
As a part of a course I took last semester, I was asked to create a project addressing any geological concept for which I had an interest. Because the project did not have to explicitly relate to material being covered in class, I decided to create a board game using the information I had learned […]
Will New England really be New England without cranberry bogs?
A team of research scientists working for multiple Federal agencies including Defense, Agriculture, Commerce and others released a report on June 16 that got curiously little media attention. Draped in the dry language of government reports, Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States paints a dramatic picture of what our agricultural system could become […]
Sustainability: It’s not just a buzzword, it’s a lifestyle
About ten days ago, I had the honor of speaking on a panel called “Organic on the Green: Conversations with College Aged Consumers” at the All Things Organic Conference and Trade Show. The honor was two-fold because #1, the panel was named after the blog I started last summer, and #2, I was joined by Maisie […]