Middlebury

 

Food Facts

  • 20% of food is sourced from Vermont
  • Fair-trade coffee is served in dining halls
  • We compost 300 tons of food each year!
  • Middlebury belongs to the Terra Madre slow food network
  • 47 local vendors provide food to Middlebury

Food Systems

What we eat can connect us to other people, as well as to the places where our food comes from. For these reasons, Middlebury places a strong emphasis on local food, as well as composting. Dining Services sources food products from 47 Vermont food producers and also purchases small amounts of fresh produce from the student-run organic farm. Twenty percent of food at Middlebury is local, and we divert nearly all food waste from ending up in the landfill through our composting program.