From academic service-learning projects to volunteer work with such organizations as Lots to Gardens and the Trinity Jubilee Center soup kitchen, Bates engages in relationships beyond campus that benefit all participants. Issues around food security, nutrition and food as a cultural expression are integral to a number of these initiatives.

"Performative meal" culminates short term seminar (Summer, 2008)

Erin Reed '08 and Lots to Gardens receive 2008 Stringfellow Awards (March, 2008) 

From carrots to zukes on Wood Street (October, 2006)

Opportunities flourish in Bates senior's gardens (August, 2003)