Evergreen State College

• Type: Liberal Arts, Public, 4 yr, 1000-5000
• Region: Northwest
• Address:
• City: Olympia
• State: WA
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• involvement in the Real Food Challenge?
  Level 2: Active in the network
• Provider: Aramark
• On campus concessions: Student Run Restaurant: The Flaming Eggplant Cafe
• Dining Services Director/Executive Chef: Craig Ward, Director of Dining Services and Matt Corbett Executive Chef
• Farm size: 1
• Farm operated by students? yes
• Composting: pre-consumer food waste, post-consumer food waste, food waste from special events, other organic waste
• Food activities: student farm/garden, farm-to-college program, organic purchasing, local purchasing, academic programs, fair trade purchasing, humane purchasing, student organizations
• Farm functions: CSA, farmer's market, food donated for hunger relief , supplies dining hall, training growers, other educational, food consumed by volunteers, research
• comments: The farm is managed by Melissa Barker, the Farm Manager and the day to day work is completed by students enrolled in the Practice of Sustainable Agriculture program. In 2007 The Organic Farm began growing crops specifically for sale to Dining Services. The Organic Farm is also home to the campus Compost Program which handles much of the organic waste on campus and the Bio-Diesel Program which utilizes waste vegetable oil from dining services to make enough bio-diesel to run the farm tractors year-round.
• Relevant academic programs: Course(s) offered, Research, Internships, Student-run programs
• comments: Programs at Evergreen are taught in a integrated, collaborative learning model in which students can enroll in a full time program that is 16 credits and covers a broad range of disciplines as related to the program topic to give students a holistic understanding of their given interests.