Connecticut College

• Type: Suburban
• Region: Northeast
• Address: 270 Mohegan Avenue
• City: New London
• State: CT
• ZIP: 06320
• URL: http://www.conncoll.edu
• involvement in the Real Food Challenge?
  Level 3: Taking the Challenge
• Provider: self operated
• On campus concessions: None
• Farm operated by students? yes
• Needs and challenges: Finding funding for alternative foods in our dining hall, demonstrating student demand for change in the dining halls, educating apathetic students
• Successes and achievements: We receive grants to pay summer garden managers, our garden has doubled in size since it was created, our dining services is starting to take very small steps in the right direction, i.e. purchasing local apples and working to reduce food waste.
• Composting: pre-consumer food waste, post-consumer food waste
• Food activities: student farm/garden, local purchasing, academic programs, student organizations
• Farm functions: supplies dining hall, training growers, food consumed by volunteers
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• Relevant academic programs: Course(s) offered, Internships, Extracurricular Activities, Student-run programs
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