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My name is Gerald Peterson, and
the university archivist in

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Special Collections at the Rod
Library at the University of

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Northern Iowa. In 1892, because
the Normal School needed more

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space for classrooms for
teaching activities, they just

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the Normal School board simply
decided that we will not be

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boarding and rooming students
here any longer, students are

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gonna have to find another place
to live. So immediately,

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entrepreneurs from Cedar Falls
built houses up here in College

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Hill. Prior to that time, there
really wasn't much of anything

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here, it was just open space
open prairie, some houses

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specialized in dining. So for
example, you would pay your

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landlord where you lived what
particular fee when you'd pay

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someone else a fee where you
ate. And that's where you took

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your meals. They were looking
for enough food. And it tended

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to be probably potatoes, bread,
coffee, meat, maybe some

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vegetables, but only in season.
And probably something like

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dessert that might still be
pretty traditional today: cakes,

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pies, muffins, something like
that. But by 1915 when the

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Bartlett Hall cafeteria opened,
there just had been a general

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concern among the faculty, that
maybe students and most

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especially women students,
needed a sanitary place to live,

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and a sanitary source of good
food. The Bartlett Hall

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cafeteria was the first
cafeteria on campus. And it was

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a real, a real innovation. Very,
very few of the students and

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probably not too many of the
faculty unless they traveled

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some had seen anything like it
had cafeteria. I think that over

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the course of time, I think
probably initially, a college

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would have been very interested
in buying locally. It was

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convenient, it was handy. And
also because that's what farmers

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were producing in the 20s and
30s. Before that, certainly, and

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maybe just a little bit later
than that, especially the 20s

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and 30s. Farmers were still
producing fruits and vegetables,

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the kinds of things that got to
a person's table. But again,

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only in season. Students
typically in those days did not

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come to campus with very much
spending money. They knew what

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it would cost to go to school,
we got their food they got

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there, they got to pay their
tuition, which was almost

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nothing. And if they watched it,
that's all money that they had

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to spend. Temptations of what's
just generally called junk food

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these days simply weren't there
in the 30s and 20s. Could you go

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buy a candy bar? Of course you
could. Could you get popcorn

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from the man in the corner
stand, of course, you could do

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that sort of thing. But it
really wasn't that handy. It was

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there weren't convenience
stores, it wasn't handy to go

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grab a coke and a bag of popcorn
or six candy bars and a Reese's

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cup, that sort of thing. So
probably, if you ate in the

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dining hall, you probably ate in
more healthful way than what you

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can't what you do nowadays,
simply because most people

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cannot overcome the temptation.
And also, I think disposable

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income in the 20s and 30s was
much more limited than it is

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now. You ate what they served
you in the cafeteria and you

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were happy about it because you
couldn't go to McDonald's or you

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couldn't go down and buy six
candy bars at a malt at the

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drugstore. Because you just
didn't have the disposable

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income. If you ate with in the
in the dining halls in those

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days, I think you probably came
away pretty healthy. And I think

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nowadays one reason that maybe
students eat in the less

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healthful manner, because they
have not learned to eat in a

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healthful manner at home. And
when they get here, the

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temptations are even worse. You
get wonderful quantities of food

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and probably pretty darn good
quality of food in dining

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centers on campus. I just think
it's a terrific idea to to use

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local foods whenever they're
possible. Whenever, whenever we

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know that they're clean and
healthful. Whenever we know how

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they've been raised. For me, the
thing that which that really

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makes a difference is the sheer
transportation costs. It is just

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crazy, in my opinion, to bring
in food from California, when

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probably you can get about the
same thing from two counties

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away. It only makes sense it
keeps the money locally keeps

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the money circulating in the
local community. It doesn't

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foster some of the abuses that
you see in the food industries.

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It's just a better idea. If you
can get your milk, get your

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vegetables, get your fresh
flowers for for table

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decorations locally. I don't see
why you wouldn't do it. I simply

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don't understand why you
wouldn't.

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My name is Kamyar Enshayan and
my job title is I'm the Director

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of Center for Energy and
Environmental Education at

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University of Northern Iowa. We
have worked with institutional

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buyers, like University of
Northern Iowa, like some of the

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restaurants, grocers, nursing
homes, hospitals, we help them

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connect to sources of locally
grown food around them, so that

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we invest a greater portion of
our food dollars in food and

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farm businesses that surround
us. In '97. When we started with

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these three institutions, then
they started buying more and

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more. And now we're working with
20, almost 30 institutional

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buyers who last year spent maybe
near nearly 3 million or so in

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locally grown foods. So we have
a long ways to go.

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We help food service directors
working in northeast Iowa,

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they're putting together a
regional seasonal cycle menu

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that will hopefully incorporate
a lot of local foods. And that

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would be a basis for everyone in
the state of Iowa to use,

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they've been very helpful in
helping us build relationships

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with farmers. So being able to
connect the farmer with us so

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that we can provide them to
provide whatever local product

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it is that they are producing.

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One of the most direct ways has
been universities, dining

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services, being really a leader
and they started, they were the

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first group that worked with us
in '97. They're really doing

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incredible things.

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The dining area at UNI is very
interested in using local food,

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we think it's an exciting thing
to do. And we've been doing it

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for more than 10 years.

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When one of their kitchens was
being remodeled, they created

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more space for prepping
vegetables, which means

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accommodating fresh, local
products. So as a result,

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students have been eating better
foods here.

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Usually what happens is, we get
a list from CEEE of what local

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food is available, and for
farmers that have those things

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available. And then that list is
sent out by our purchasing

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coordinator, Lisa Crossman, she
sends that out to our assistant

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managers and managers. And then
they determine depending on what

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they are menuing that week, when
they're going to purchase.

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And our role is facilitation,
bringing people together and

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making sure they're they know
each other's exist and what what

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the kind of a market signal is,
you know how much produce is

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available, what's the demand.

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local farmer having enough for
us to be able to serve it from

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our meal, we have to have enough
of that in order to be able to

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serve a whole meal's worth of
the product. So sometimes our,

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especially our small farmers,
they're really not interested in

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getting any bigger. And so they
don't really have the product,

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enough of the product for us to
use, we could probably do a

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better job at labeling what we
have as local food, they know

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through our publications, and
through our website, and through

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signs that we have posted in our
dining facilities that we use

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local food. Right now depending
on the definition that you use

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for local food, and we use the
Ashi def. definition which is

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within 250 miles. We're at more
than 25%. If you use Iowa as

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your definition that we're
probably about 15% of local

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food, usually in the fall when
there's there's a more plentiful

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supply of local food. Most of
our local food is coming from

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local farmers in the area. We've
purchased a lot of local

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produce, now in the wintertime
from a hoop, a greenhouse that

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is a little bit farther away.
Some of our retail units use

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some local milk and butter from
Hansen's Farms which is a local

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dairy. But the rest of our milk
and dairy is coming from

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Anderson Erickson, which is a
Des Moines based company.

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We really work hard to purchase
our local food, when it's in

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season many times being a
benefit for us because it's

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actually cheaper than if you
bought produce from California,

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let's say and it has to be
trucked in.

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Issue, of course, is a
complicated issue. Currently our

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food when we say, when we say,
oh, this organic apple or this

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organically grown, organically
raised chicken is more

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expensive, we're comparing it to
another product that appears

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cheap, but it's very costly,
we're not paying the full costs.

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So the organic chicken is, you
know, as Joel Salatin had said,

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it's more honestly priced, it's
the honest price of of that

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product. So it's not that it's
more expensive. It's just that

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the other products have been in
an artificial way. Cheap, and

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where we haven't paid the full
costs, we pay those in terms of

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polluted waters and health
problems and a variety of other

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other things.

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I think that we ask our
students, what's important to

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them, and they're willing to pay
for local foods. And some of the

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feedback we've gotten from
students is, it's important for

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them to for us to serve local
foods, but they only want to pay

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a little bit more for local
foods. So I think that the cost

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of local food is something that
we need to be aware of. And

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certainly purchase as much as we
can.

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What students can do to really
support this locally grown

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economy is to first of all pay
attention to what they eat, they

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could attend farmers markets,
and again, look for go to

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businesses that serve locally
grown food or sell local foods.

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So that's, that's a good start.
The food system that we're

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trying to create that actually
you and I has been a has had

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several programs where we've
demonstrated leadership is that

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we need to have an honest food
system where the products of it

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are healthy food, healthy
people, healthy land. And that

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is going to, that's just, to me,
there's no alternative to that,

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that's what we got to have, are
we willing to create a different

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future. That's what this is all
about, in a way, we're talking

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about rebuilding a different
food system. That's what we're

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working on. That's what this
whole UNI local food program is

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to build a food system that is
good for people good for the

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land, from the farm to the time
by the time it reaches a table,

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which means all the people who
are working in the kitchen, on

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the farm fields. So that's what
really, the goal is yes, to

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create a future that it would be
possible for UNI Dining Services

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to easily purchase local and
organic and and it would be

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normal, and everybody would
support that.

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I think as much as you can eat
locally and organic, the better.

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It's all of the research is
going to tell you that the less

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your food has to travel, the
healthier it will be for you.

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I think that students perceive
local food as being fresher. And

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maybe since it's fresher, more,
more healthy for them. I think

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that one of the big benefits is
that because it is fresher, it

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usually is better tasting. And I
think it since it hasn't

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traveled as far it has more
nutrients in the product itself.

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So I think it is better for our
students.

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I think I'd just like to see
more. I think what I'm telling

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you is restructures now is that
we need to go slow. You know, if

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you have 10,000 students and
every student needs to eat the

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same thing every day. We're not
in the first year we're gonna

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see a total changeover we're
gonna go slow. So maybe we'll

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start with you over and maybe it
will start with some local

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lettuce and salad bars and to
have a voice because oftentimes

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schools will will go with what
the majority wants. I'm really

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hoping that food can hold its
own as being important because

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frankly, you should graduate and
know how to read and know how to

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write but you also should know
how to eat. So I'm hoping that

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through schools and community
programs and things like that,

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we can also just kind of help to
teach people about health and

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wellness, and how the food piece
fits into that. And we can kind

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of get back to get back to some
healthy eating where it's not so

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much a focus where it doesn't
have to be a class and you don't

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need special programs for it,
it's more of an automatic thing.

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College garden was established
by about 1920, perhaps just a

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little bit before that. And I'm
not sure how long it survived,

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certainly through the 20s,
perhaps into the 30s. But again,

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I wonder about the matters of
scale, I am not sure that enough

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tomatoes or potatoes or whatever
could be produced in season to

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provide for the college
cafeteria. I just don't know

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that.

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My name is Cara Poppe, and I'm a
sophomore Presidential Scholar

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has been working on the think
tank project this year, which is

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a student run garden named the
Panther Plot.

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My name is Rachel Carmen. I'm a
sophomore here at UNI. I am part

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of a group that helped create
the Panther Plot. I got involved

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because I am in a group called
Think Tank where we had to come

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up with a service learning
project that would benefit the

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Cedar Valley community. And we
decided that the sustainability

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and local foods initiative is
really important to us. And

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something that would really go
over well here in this

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community.

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Because we want a place that is
like a third place. It's not

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like school, and it's not your
dorm room. But a place where

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people can come and hang out.
But also engage like an academic

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learning environment, we have
been working really hard to

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create a lot of partnerships
across campus with UNI Dining

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and the CEEE, and for doing
this, we're able to gather

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support from the administrators
first and our project, and then

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really built on momentum for the
garden project itself.

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What I have offered is to help
with some seed money, literally

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seed money. And also with if
they have product left after

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they've sold it or given it away
that we would, we would take

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that at a reasonable price off
their hands.

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It'll lead us to better eating
better cooking, and realize

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what's possible if a piece of
land was available near us

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The students are the ones that
really make change happen on a

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campus. And I think this this
group of students is one of

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those unique group of students
that actually understood that

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and really embraced that fact.
And they, they've got a great

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product now that's starting to
take shape in front of all of

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our eyes. It it's amazing to
watch and kind of start as an

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idea and grow and grow and grow.
We're at the point right now

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where they've turned earth over.
And we're probably within a week

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or so from a fence starting to
go up and starting to get some

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of the crops put into the
ground, which is really exciting

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to think that in a very short
period of time, we're going to

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start seeing some drastic
changes.

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We are going to grow flowers and
vegetables to be sold on campus

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on an off campus farmer's market
starting in the fall on Tuesdays

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and Fridays. And that's where
students are gonna be able to

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actually purchase the produce is
grown here on campus. And it's

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all by the students, for the
students and from the students.

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So it's really great student run
initiative. And in addition,

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we're going to have a giving
back component where we're going

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to donate food to the food core
program, which is going to teach

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students in the Waterloo School
District about nutrition and

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healthy eating at a very young
age, and then also donating some

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of the produce to the Northeast
Iowa Food Bank.

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Hi, I'm Angela Wrage. I'm one of
the nine Presidential Scholars

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who was involved in the think
tank project that started this

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garden. And I am really excited
to get to volunteer at the

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garden this summer. I won't be
here to see it next year because

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I'm studying abroad in Turkey.
But I can't wait to see what's

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going on with it when I come
back. I know it'll be great.

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I'm really excited, though, to
follow up and be able to see

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next fall, how they're able to
capitalize on some of the

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success and actually be able to
potentially have events out at

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the garden.