Stories about "food"
Choice Meat
Wednesday, November 5, 2008 2:17 pm
This issue reflects the College's ongoing Bates Contemplates Food initiative in myriad ways, including eight profiles of alumni who produce food in Maine.
A meeting of cultures around a Creole Table
Tuesday, November 4, 2008 12:00 pm
Staff, students and faculty get together to make dinner and discuss a particular nation and its Creole culture, building bridges between different groups within the college.
Dual Demmitts
Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:53 pm
Louisa Demmitt '09 and younger brother Daniel of Columbia, Md., saw a lot of each other during the fall, even though he's not a Bates student. After graduating from high school, Daniel cobbled together a gap year that began in Maine at the Androscoggin Apple Co., a family-owned organic operation in Greene. He plans to continue his farm work in the South over the winter.
Called to the table
Saturday, November 1, 2008 3:09 pm
Conversations about food remind us that a liberal education prepares the whole human being for life.
Alumnus and Bates Contemplates Food
Saturday, November 1, 2008 1:51 pm
The cover of the Fall 2008 Bates Magazine shows Nicolas Lindholm '86 displaying tomatoes grown on his family-operated organic farm, Hackmatack Farm, in Penobscot, Maine.
The Maine Course
Saturday, November 1, 2008 11:39 am
The Bates Contemplates Food initiative is a call for an informed examination of food choices. For many of us, these choices involve what foods to buy. A select few, though — such as the alumni on enumerated below — are choosing what foods to produce for the people who buy. And while every food decision is a life decision, the choices made by people whose livings depend on producing food take place on planes different from the ones we occupy.
The Packet— In death, the chance to know a Bates life
Saturday, November 1, 2008 9:40 am
Three times a year, I receive a packet from the editor of this magazine, a packet that no one else receives. In it are the stories of 50 or 60 people, all part of the Bates community in some way: alumni, faculty, staff. But they are united by more than being part of this community.
Feeding the Bobcat
Saturday, November 1, 2008 9:24 am
Sylvan Ellefson '09 and his Nordic teammates trust the Bates food chain.
Cornfield as Classroom
Saturday, November 1, 2008 9:20 am
Food-oriented community projects provide more than physical nourishment.
Keeping Pace with the Earth
Saturday, November 1, 2008 8:58 am
Anna Skarstad ’11 wants to be a farmer, but she’s not willing to hoe that row until she understands why.