Vassar College

• Type: Liberal Arts, Private, 4 yr, 1000-5000
• Region: Northeast
• City: Poughkeepsie
• State: NY
• involvement in the Real Food Challenge?
  Level 2: Active in the network
• Provider: Aramark
• Dining Services Director/Executive Chef: Maureen King and Ken Oldehoff
• Farm size: 2
• Farm operated by students? no
• Successes and achievements: The dinning services team is very active around bring real food to campus. The amount grows each semester. Faculty is aware that there are many students who want to learn about the food system, so they are trying to offer more classes on the topic.
• Composting: pre-consumer food waste, post-consumer food waste, other organic waste
• Food activities: student farm/garden, farm-to-college program, fair trade purchasing, organic purchasing, local purchasing, academic programs, student organizations, humane purchasing
• Farm functions: CSA, farmer's market, supplies co-op, training growers, other educational, food consumed by volunteers, food donated for hunger relief , supplies restaurant
• comments: The farm, the Poughkeepsie Farm Project is it's own organization, it works closely with vassar, but it's main goals are serving downtown poughkeepsie and underprivileged areas,
• Relevant academic programs: Course(s) offered, Student-run programs, Fellowship, Extracurricular Activities
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