Green & Sustainable Dining

What you can do:

Think about what you put on your tray. Consider the many available foods and take only what you plan to eat. If you want to try several items, ask the server for smaller portions. Encourage your friends to do the same and help us wipe out food waste at Michigan. Learn More.

Look for and choose foods with the Go Blue/Eat Local logo. It means the food is made primarily from locally grown ingredients.

What we’re doing:

• By planning our meals well in advance, we can purchase more fresh, natural, locally produced foods and have them delivered daily to our kitchens. More than 30 Michigan suppliers and farmers provide the University with poultry products, fruits, vegetables, honey and more.
• We’re expanding our search for more sources of locally produced foods.
• Most of our entrees (and all of our soups) are prepared from scratch, using fresh ingredients.
• As part of our green initiative, Residential Dining collects pre-consumer  food waste in special bins. These are taken to the City of Ann Arbor’s composting site where the food waste is mixed with the community’s yard waste to create compost. This effort reduces the amount of organic material going into the waste water stream or landfill.

Video Blog

Check out this video blog post from Bonnie Bucqueroux of SustainableFarmer.com :