{"id":333,"date":"2010-06-21T18:35:10","date_gmt":"2010-06-21T18:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hub-dev.bates.edu\/food\/?page_id=333"},"modified":"2020-03-06T14:01:05","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T19:01:05","slug":"eat-local-brunch","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/what-is-bates-doing\/local-natural-organic\/eat-local-brunch\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Eat Local&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Orientation features &#8216;Eat Local&#8217; brunch<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/Images\/LocalGrowers6031WEB.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>MAINE GROWN Ralph Caldwell, whose farm supplies organic milk to Bates, speaks to brand-new Batesies on Aug. 31 in the new dining Commons. The occasion was an &#8220;Eat Local&#8221; brunch that gave Dining Services a showcase for the local food producers who help provision the College. (Along with Maine-made baked goods, local haddock and a variety of local produce were on the menu.) In her remarks, Dining Services director&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/x182718.xml\">Christine Schwartz<\/a> mentioned the national &#8220;Real Food Challenge&#8221; that this year will encourage colleges and universities to raise the proportion of local food served to 20 percent: Bates is already at 28 percent and aiming for 32. Caldwell, whose farm is in nearby Turner, was one of several local producers to address Bates&#8217; Class of 2012 and answer questions. Asked why he farms, Caldwell replied, &#8220;I was born into it. It&#8217;s an illness there&#8217;s no treatment for . . . We want to farm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Orientation features &#8216;Eat Local&#8217; brunch MAINE GROWN Ralph Caldwell, whose farm supplies&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":326,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"class_list":["post-333","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=333"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":764,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/333\/revisions\/764"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/food\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}