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A photo tour of College of the Atlantic’s dining and farm operations

College of the Atlantic, Princeton Review’s top ranked “green college” six years running, builds that sustainability mission into its campus food program.

Mike Buzalka, Executive Features Editor

January 4, 2022

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College of the Atlantic (CoA) in Bar Harbor, Maine may be very small—it has less than 400 students—and only offers degrees in human ecology, but that size and emphasis also help it maintain its status as America’s greenest college, topping the Princeton Review “Top 50 Green Colleges” listing for the past six years running. The campus food program plays a key role in this achievement, not only through the kinds of meals it serves—scratch-made with local and organic ingredients where possible, plenty of meatless offerings and meats that are humanely raised and sustainably sourced, including from the school’s own agricultural operations, which raise not only various fruits and vegetables but animals like pigs, cattle, lamb and poultry.

Here’s a short photo tour of the dining and farm operations maintained by College of the Atlantic…

About the Author

Mike Buzalka

Executive Features Editor, Food Management

Mike Buzalka is executive features editor for Food Management and contributing editor to Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News. On Food Management, Mike has lead responsibility for compiling the annual Top 50 Contract Management Companies as well as the K-12, College, Hospital and Senior Dining Power Players listings. He holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in English Literature from John Carroll University. Before joining Food Management in 1998, he served as for eight years as assistant editor and then editor of Foodservice Distributor magazine. Mike’s personal interests range from local sports such as the Cleveland Indians and Browns to classic and modern literature, history and politics.

Mike Buzalka’s areas of expertise include operations, innovation and technology topics in onsite foodservice industry markets like K-12 Schools, Higher Education, Healthcare and Business & Industry.

Mike Buzalka’s experience:

Executive Features Editor, Food Management magazine (2010-present)

Contributing Editor, Restaurant Hospitality, Supermarket News and Nation’s Restaurant News (2016-present)

Associate Editor, Food Management magazine (1998-2010)

Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1997-1998)

Assistant Editor, Foodservice Distributor magazine (1989-1997)

 

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