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The University of California at Santa Cruz (my dad's alma mater!) has just taken their commitment to serving good food on their campus to a new level. In a revolutionary (for the University of California system at least) farm-to-college program, they've contracted to buy organic produce from seven local farmers for their five on-campus dining facilities. Since the Santa Cruz purchasing department wasn't set up to buy individually from smaller farmers, they've created a consortium called the Monterey Bay Organic Farming Consortium (MBOFC). One of the member growers acts as coordinator, "delivering the produce to the campus dining halls three or four times a week, invoicing the university and distributing payments to the growers." Colleges and universities have a huge amount of impact on food purchasing, if a good number of other institutions were to start sourcing their food in this way, it could have a huge impact on the food production market in this country.
[via The Ethicurean]
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11-08-2007 @2:21PM kim said... Well Damn. If only they'd thought of that while I was still going to school there...
I hope the current students appreciate it. Lord knows I wouldn't've minded something that wasn't from Sodexho. Evil foodservice empire....
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11-09-2007 @8:20PM PorterReport said... We've been using locally grown organic produce for a while now, I think we're just expanding the farms we purchase from. Also, in response to kim, Sodexho went away and those workers got hired on, during the 2003-2004 school year.
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