Composting is fun, and it makes you feel good!
Reducing Food Waste is One of the Most Sustainable things we can do. We started this project in 2016 with an MATC innovation grant.

Course Number:  CULART-118  Sustainable Food Communities.

Course Description:  A study of the foodservice industry’s environmental impact on natural resources and issues related to sustainable practices such as renewable energy, waste reduction, local food sourcing, and food production methods.

We are reducing food waste and creating new life!

Kitchen Lab Food Waste
New raised beds from composted kitchen waste.
MATC Organic horticulture class
Kitchen lab waste becomes Food again. More than 1000lb. of waste is diverted weekly from landfills using an innovation grant.

Local Food is Local Farms – putting it on the menu can be a fun challenge!

Apple Salad with house-cured bacon
Gwenyn Hill Farm Tour
Chicken duet

Local Food makes cooking tastier and easier!

Pastured beef with seasonal vegetables.
Local Taste
Hanger with root vegetable puree

Growing and Tasting Heirloom Garlic

The raised bed started with composted kitchen material

Pastured Butter – taste and see the difference!

Grass-based Butter – see and taste the difference.

Culart 118 Lecture Video’s

Lesson 2 Chapter One Intro. to US Food System – 15:15 minutes https://youtu.be/Vpvi1LiXVZA

Lesson 3 Chapter Three Ecological Threats to and from Food Systems 1 of 2 13:20 minutes. https://youtu.be/OSuobKIDl6A

Lesson 3 Chapter Three 2 of 2 12:23 minutes. https://youtu.be/acHcHfMZA2o

Lesson 4 Chapter Eleven 1 of 2 US Crop Production 13:08 minutes. https://youtu.be/0TGSH2RQhow

Lesson 4 Chapter Eleven 2 of 2 8:02 minutes. https://youtu.be/ekPpL38F2ko

Lesson 6 Chapter Twelve 1 of 2 Animal Production 14:08 minutes. https://youtu.be/34ZHJ2CAPJM

Lesson 6 Chapter Twelve 2 of 2 Animal Production 14:49 minutes. https://youtu.be/xu2qrPj3Y_k

Lesson 8 Chapter Fifteen Food Consumption 14:46 minutes. https://youtu.be/6szkRhI9TT4

EPA https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2015-08/documents/reducing_wasted_food_pkg_tool.pdfGuide