By Bryan Good Sustainability Studies student You want fresh vegetables but aren’t sure if your grocery store has yours or their best interest in mind. Vegetable stands are nice but you don’t know how long since they’ve been picked. At first glance, gardening appears to be a project that is overwhelming and time-consuming. Who wants to… Read more »
Just Food
Posts on the food system, from student blog posts and essays assigned in Sustainability Studies course SUST-S360 Just Food: Sustainable Food Systems.
Diving into Sustainability: Junior’s Farm
By Devon Brugh Have you ever considered how our world is divided? We have an uneven division of leaning to water and areas considered to be land. Consider the areas of land for a second. Yet what do they consist of? Are they long flat fields for farming; or covered with trees, mountains or other… Read more »
Diving into Sustainability: Rebirth
By Devon Brugh The sea of light brown dirt in front of us was just a minor setback. If the soil lacked the nutrients it needed, then we would have to supplement those items. One way of doing that was to create a compost box. There a variety of ways to create a box or… Read more »
Diving into Sustainability: The Unveiling
By Devon Brugh My husband and I were ecstatic when we found our new home, but not for what most people think. Yes, the spacious house, a good school system and walking distance to a local food store were good selling points. We fell in love with the half acre fenced in yard in the… Read more »
Generation Dinner: A Better Society Starts at the Table
By Jane Wise, sustainability student, IU South Bend Does Small Talk Make A Big Difference? In the majority of American homes, a specific place exists where a family can discuss, share experiences, and work through issues. Perhaps this place is the living room, the sitting room, or even the family car. While a family can… Read more »
Journey of a Locavore: It’s a Community Thing
In my locavore adventures, I am most engaged in the connection between community and food. Food is a communal thing. We meet around it, celebrate with it, we plan meals around the gathering of people—families, friends, significant others, parents—often making the choice first of the company we keep before that of the food we eat… Read more »
Journey of a Locavore–Where am I now and where do I go…for local food?
“Our food system belongs in the hands of many family farmers, not under the control of a handful of corporations.” –Willie Nelson, Co-Founder of Farm Aid In my locavore adventures, I have discovered a new way of life; one that positively affects my community, my health—and the health of my 12 and 15 year old… Read more »
Journey of a Locavore—My Personal Organic Revolution
Tucked within Martin’s Supermarket’s produce section is a small display of organic fruits and vegetables. Their overall appearance is not much different from the shiny and large peppers and cucumbers staged directly across the aisle, save for a couple bruises or odd formations that make organic vegetables beautiful in their own right. Before I learned… Read more »
Eating Local
At the conclusion of the “Just Food: Sustainable Food Systems” class led during the Fall, 2012, semester by Center for a Sustianable Future’s Assistant Director Krista Bailey, student prepared and delivered final presenations. They were given creative license to do what they felt delivered the content of their final papers for the course. One student,… Read more »
Journey of a Locavore–Adventures with the Red Wattle
Earlier this month, I visited Grass is Greener Meat and Produce, a family farm in Bremen, Indiana, owned by John and Toni Rowe. A couple of years before, the Rowe’s transitioned from conventional farming methods to using non-GMO seeds, and growing produce and raising animals using organic methods. The family raises an extremely rare breed… Read more »