Bon Appétit Management Company

Bon Appétiters at DePauw University stayed quite busy, even during the summer break, with a series of community focused events.

Bon Appétit Fellow Peter Todaro, who’s working on expanding Bon Appétit’s Campus Farmers Network, joins members of newly re-formed Macalester Urban Land and Community Health club (MULCH) to learn more about the campus farm

Back in 2009, Gallaudet students and Bon Appétiters transformed an abandoned volleyball court into 14 garden beds. Since then, Gallaudet’s garden has also gone through different management structures, all leading up to a major transformation this season.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, MA, boasts sweeping vistas of the Charles River and Boston’s impressive skyline. It also now boasts something else: a rooftop farm.

Lafayette College’s library and campus farm join forces to empower community members to grow their own foods through a free source of organic seeds.

The farming program at Carleton is almost completely student-run, with staff changing year to year, a fact that made the professionalism of the farm even more impressive.

At St. Timothy’s School, an all-girls private high school in Stevenson, MD, just west of Goucher College, the Bon Appétit team is lucky enough to be able to buy from the productive campus farm, called Redlands Farm

Set just north of the idyllic Furman Lake, an extremely nutrient-dense lake with countless turtles, mallards, and black and white swans milling about, is Furman University’s farm in Greenville, SC.

Fellow Amanda Wareham visits DePauw University’s on-site campus farm and Farm to Fork vendor Ponderosa Aqua Farm

Campus farms aren’t just for college students anymore. In the past decade we’ve seen a surge of interest in growing food on college campuses — and recently, more corporations, restaurants, and museums are picking up spades and joining the movement.