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ThursdayMarch 19, 2009 |
Alumni bring distinctive views to food-system issues“I can see the world through food,” said Kirsten Walter ’00, perhaps speaking for all the participants in a wide-ranging Bates discussion of food-related topics on March 16. “I can see all these different issues,” she said, “and how to approach them and how to engage people with them.” |
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ThursdayMarch 12, 2009 |
'Bates Contemplates Food' presents alumni in two eventsBorealis Breads founder Jim Amaral ’80 and food activist-author Mark Winne ’72 are among Bates College alumni featured in two March events relating to the Nourishing Body and Mind: Bates Contemplates Food initiative. |
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SaturdayNovember 1, 2008 |
Cornfield as ClassroomFood-oriented community projects provide more than physical nourishment. |
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SaturdayMarch 1, 2008 |
The Wedding GiftFriends and family raise a barn, and some community spirit, at the farmhouse wedding of Kirsten Walter ’00 and Ben Ayers ’99 |
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FridayAugust 8, 2003 |
Opportunities flourish in Bates senior's gardensScion of a farming family in Sandwich, N.H., Booty has put her agricultural experience to work for Lots to Gardens, a Lewiston-based nonprofit founded in 1998 by another Bates student, Kirsten Walter. Booty — who is as passionate about civic involvement as she is about raising food — is the youth coordinator for the program, which uses gardening projects to strengthen community and support local young people. |
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FridayMarch 10, 2000 |
Bates College senior wins two national awards for Lewiston community garden projectBates College senior Kirsten Walter of Los Gatos, Calif., has been chosen as a recipient of the 2000 national Campus Compact Howard R. Swearer Humanitarian Award and the 2000 Gleistman Foundation’s Michael Schwerner Activist Award, both in recognition of the 1999 Hillview Community Garden project she developed in Lewiston. |