Green Mountain Compost Facility Tour Tuesday, April 5, 2016 Depart campus at 12:30pm (meet by van behind Rowell Hall); return by 2:15pm Green Mountain Compost is where we send all of our food scraps from campus to be composted. In 2011, Chittenden Solid Waste District closed the doors on the Burlington site (formerly known as […]
Continue readingVermont Community Garden Network March 2016 Newsletter Spring is just around the corner! As the ground begins to thaw, VCGN is gearing up for an exciting growing season! This newsletter is bursting with resources and opportunities for garden groups all over the state, Burlington programs, internships, and events, andVCGN news, including new board members, a […]
Continue readingIntroduction to Ecological Site Design Tuesday, March 22, 2016 – 6:00pm to 7:30pm City Market (map) Learn the basics of assessing your backyard’s key attributes (solar gain, soil type, water flow, vegetation, and patterns of use) and designing productive, beautiful spaces that are in harmony with nature. Before you break ground, generate a vision for […]
Continue readingResults: Vermont First Local Purchasing 2015 by VermontFirst The 2015 results are in! But first, a few thoughts: When we launched Vermont First, we knew that in order to make strides towards our goal to increase local purchasing across all our Vermont accounts we needed to establish a baseline. This baseline data needed to provide enough information to […]
Continue readingHello Network! Please see below for a message from the Real Food Standard Council. Please note the opportunity to submit a comment by April 1st. Over the past month, we’ve taken unprecedented action for our future – a future where there isjustice and dignity for workers and producers, in a food system that sustains our […]
Continue readingVermont First Localvore Challenge at St. Michael’s College by VermontFirst In celebration of Vermont First’s initiative to increase local food sourcing, eight Vermont colleges competed in the Localvore Cooking Challenge yesterday hosted by St. Michael’s College. Click here to see the live story from WCAX News. This friendly competition challenges professional and up-and-coming Sodexo chefs to […]
Continue readingWhat Do We Do? By Emma Reed Our bees produce a variety of products on Champlain’s campus: honey, wax, pollen, and propolis. The honey produced by our bees is bottled and marketed by Champlain students. It’s never heated, fine-filtered, or processed in any way. The honey is spun from the comb, poured into jars, and […]
Continue readingBeloved CCPI Staff Writer Jessica Demarest interviewed Kristin Wolf during the Fall 2015 semester as part of our Apiary Project. In honor of sustainability month, we’ve transcribed the interview for you to read. What was the reasoning behind starting the Champlain Apiary? While getting her PhD at George Mason University, Kristin’s mentor was very involved […]
Continue readingMagnificent Microbes, Healthy Guts Wednesday, February 17, 2016 – 6:00pm to 7:00pm City Market (map) Join local ancestral food and health enthusiast Eric Garza for a workshop on the role that microbes play in our gut health. Eric will discuss cutting edge research linking gut microbe diversity with chronic ailments like obesity and neurodegenerative conditions. […]
Continue readingNote: this is the next in a series of blog posts from our student-run Champlain College Publishing Initiative. Look for these and others as we bee-come more aware of our flying friends. If you’ve been keeping up with our series of posts about honey bees, then you already know that their populations are rapidly declining, which is […]
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