Title
From Plate Back to Plate: Exploring Furman's Food System
Department, Center, or Institute
Shi Center for Sustainability
Presentation Format
Other
Presentation Type
Internship
Description
Take a tour of Furman's food system from plate to compost to farm and back to your plate. Shi Center Student Fellows Elise Dudley, Eileen Joseph, Rebecca Hearn and Sophie Kline Schaffer will lead a tour through Bon Appetit's practices in the dining hall, to the composting facilities where our campus food waste goes after in leaves our plates, to the Furman Farm where this compost is used to grow food that then goes back to the dining hall. And back to our plates. This cyclical system embodies sustainability and provides an excellent example of resource reclamation to meet current and future needs. Join us for a 75 minute excursion to see the process step by step and learn why and how these efforts impact our campus. Rain or Shine!
Department Organized Oral Session Title
From Plate Back to Plate: Exploring Furman's Food System
Moderator/Professor
Kelly Grant Purvis, The David E. Shi Center for Sustainabilty
Session Number
3
Start Date and Time
4-9-2019 1:45 PM
Location
Bread and Bowl; Dining Hall
Recommended Citation
Dudley, Elise; Joseph, Eileen; Hearn, Rebecca; and Kline Schaffer, Sophie, "From Plate Back to Plate: Exploring Furman's Food System" (2019). Furman Engaged!. 190.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/furmanengaged/2019/all/190
From Plate Back to Plate: Exploring Furman's Food System
Bread and Bowl; Dining Hall
Take a tour of Furman's food system from plate to compost to farm and back to your plate. Shi Center Student Fellows Elise Dudley, Eileen Joseph, Rebecca Hearn and Sophie Kline Schaffer will lead a tour through Bon Appetit's practices in the dining hall, to the composting facilities where our campus food waste goes after in leaves our plates, to the Furman Farm where this compost is used to grow food that then goes back to the dining hall. And back to our plates. This cyclical system embodies sustainability and provides an excellent example of resource reclamation to meet current and future needs. Join us for a 75 minute excursion to see the process step by step and learn why and how these efforts impact our campus. Rain or Shine!