Food is raising its profile on campus. We are learning better ways to raise it, and buy it, and cook it, and appreciate it. We have talked before about our ever improving garden and fruit trees; Here are a few additional food snapshots from an August morning..

Dan is savoring the special taste of local honey scraped right out of a honeycomb frame that Jim temporarily borrowed out of a local beehive. 

 Meanwhile, downstairs the local Natural Foods buying club is unloading its monthly order.

A while later, Graham from RREAL is teaching a young class the basics of cooking with solar heat.

Not long after that, Jim is showing the same class how a beehive works, complete with live bees.

Food accounts for about twenty percent of the petroleum we burn in the United States. It accounts for a large percentage of our health. There are so many reasons why we need to care about where our food comes from and how it is raised.

I am happy to see people learning how to eat local and healthy.