Bon Appétit Management Company

Five years ago, Bon Appétit began inviting Stepstone Academy Scholars to visit Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland for lunch and to learn about healthy food. This year, they got to cook their own!

The urban farm Strength to Love II is growing more than just greens for West Baltimore. With continued support from Bon Appétit, it’s on a mission to bring jobs, nourishment, and healing to its community.

We did it! Traci, Tessa, Kristi, and I biked from Carmel to Santa Barbara to raise funds for No Kid Hungry through Chefs Cycle. What an incredible experience. Not to be missed, never to be forgotten.

On a visit to Santa Cruz Coffee Roasting Company, students learn all about this unique collaboration among Bon Appétit, a local coffee roaster, and a nonprofit driven by ethics and environmental stewardship.

For this year’s National Farmworker Awareness Week, Bon Appétit will be featuring a “Faces of Farmworkers” display in hundreds of cafés across the country and via social media, highlighting portraits and quotes gathered in the fields by Student Action with Farmworkers.

One of the most inspirational parts of our Pitzer Sustainable Food Forum was hearing the story behind Huerta del Valle, a nearby community garden whose grassroots efforts are helping transform a community.

As this year’s Farmworker Awareness Week approaches, hundreds of Bon Appétit cafés around the country are preparing to spread the word about how few pennies per pound farmworkers earn for commonly picked produce items, and 20 locations are hosting a screening of the documentary Food Chains.

A group of Wesleyan University students who’d immersed themselves in farm labor issues and food deserts visited Urban Oaks Organic Farm. Just 13 miles away from campus, they got to learn about these issues firsthand — and see where some of the fruits and vegetables they eat every day on campus are grown.

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.

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.