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Local Food Issues- Ripon College
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by Elizabeth McHone 14 years, 10 months ago
Service | Academic Work | Education & Training | Capacity Building | Deliberative Democracy
Sub-categories in this issue
- Energy Use
- Poverty
- Sustainability
- Human Rights
- Healthcare
- Distribution of Resources
- Community Gardens and Farms
- Food Banks, Soup Kitchens, and Anti-Hunger Programs
- Food Policy
- Nutrition
- Food Production
- Community Development
- Small Business and Non-profits
Types of Service short-term | ongoing school year | summer
- Short-term
- Project connects students with local producers to provide opportunities for working or volunteering on farms in the area .
- Ongoing School year
- Students will build and maintain a community garden, using it as an educational opportunity for the college as well as an opportunity to interact with community members, especially local school children and the Ripon Food Pantry.
- Students will participate in events that prompt discussion of food ethics and initiate efforts at working with local producers, campus food services, and the local food pantry.
- Cutting down on food waste with trayless meals.
Academic Work courses | service-learning | CBR and policy research | departments and institutes
Education & Training forums | workshops | reflection activities
- R.I.P.E.N. will cooperate with Bonner students and other campus groups and initiatives like the ELP, SIFE, EGOR, Amnesty Int'l, and Chefs Anonymous to educate the RC community about food issues, produce educational videos on issues and recipes, and organize events that will involve community interaction.
Campus and Organizational Capacity-Building training | fundraising | resource development
- Local Producers are asking for advertising on campus of their services and work or volunteer openings.
- The Ripon Food Pantry is stretched thin and needs volunteers and donations that may come in the form of students and community garden produce.
- Education in local schools about nutrition and local food could be improved by Ripon College students hosting educational events and working with younger students in the community garden.
- An annual conference co-hosted by SIFE and the ELP looked at the environmental ethics of businesses and non-profits.
- Campus groups like EGOR and Amnesty International are willing to co-host events promoting local food on campus.
Research, Policy Analysis, Deliberative Democracy evaluations | policy research | issue forums | advocacy
The Office of Community Engagement's local food intern Elizabeth McHone has spent time researching producers near Ripon, WI and organizing lists of community members with connections to local food issues, as well as some of the assets in Ripon. Scary statistics on the economic, health, and environmental impacts of not eating locally have been gathered. Elizabeth has been working on establishing a network of students, faculty, staff, and community members interested in local food in Ripon in the hopes that student opinion will guide school food policies in the future. Further attempts to attain information on food issues, educate the community on those issues, and create a local food movement beneficial to the Ripon community are embodied in R.I.P.E.N.
- Ripon's Office of Community has started R.I.P.E.N. (the Ripon Initiative for local Produce Education and Nutrition), a project aimed at using social media (such as Twitter, YouTube and Facebook) to educate the Ripon College community about the economic, health, and environmental benefits of local food and other food ethical issues, as well as opportunities to get involved with farms and food-related initiatives in the community. R.I.P.E.N.'s goals include the following:
- Communicating with local producers through phone, internet, and meetings and constructing an easy to use directory available to community members
- Establishing connections between those producers and the campus community
- Informing students of opportunities to work or volunteer on local farms and join CSA's or coops
- Creating videos that educate the community on local food issues and how to prepare fresh, local food
- Working with campus food services to introduce locally grown/raised food to the school cafeteria
- Collaborating with campus groups to organize events that provide an outlet for discussion of food issues and activities related to food issues in the community
- Working with the campus plant department to construct a community garden in which students and community members will interact
- Establishing a network of students connected through social media that organizes events and informs the campus of student opinions
The first of R.I.P.E.N.'s videos is completed and available for viewing on YouTube and Facebook. http://www.youtube.com/user/RiponLocalFood
Contacts staff | faculty | students | community partners (local, regional, national)
- Staff
- Lindsay Blumer: Director of the college's Ethical Leadership Program
- Andy Prellwitz: Librarian at the college, family owns Prellwitz Produce, a local strawberry farm
- Jolene Rueden: Admissions Counselor, has experience working in PR for farms
- Dana Polasky: Biology Department Laboratory Coordinator and owner of local CSA (Polasky's Farm Market)
- Sarjit Singh: Director of the college's food services (Sodexho)
- Faculty
- Skip Wittler: Professor of Biology, specializing in Botany and Environmental Studies
- Kat Griffith: Adjunct Professor of Environmental Studies, interested in sustainability
- William Whitehead: Professor of Anthropology, specializing in environmental issues
- Diane Beres: Professor of Mathematics and Computer Science, interested in local food issues
- Dean Katahira: Professor of Chemistry, interested in human rights and environmental issues, regularly attends local food-related events
- Paul Jeffries: Professor of Philosophy, interested in human rights and environmental issues
- Administration
- David Joyce: College President, interested in local food issues and their impact on the community
- Local Producers
- Tracy and Richard Vinz: owners of Olden Produce, a CSA in Ripon
- Lindsey and Aaron Blumer: owners of small organic farm in Ripon
- Dana Polasky: owner of Polasky's Farm Market, a CSA in Ripon
- Chuck Prellwitz: owner of Prellwitz Produce, a local pick-your-own strawberry farm
- Ryan Prellwitz: relative to Chuck and Andy, president of the Wisconsin Grape Growers Association
- Danielle and Mat Boerson: owners of Boerson Farm, a local CSA
- Jim and Ginger Quick: owners of Honey Creek Farm, specializing in free range chicken and beef
- Prospera Farm, a CSA in Berlin, WI
- Tom and Heather Bandt: owners of Green Barn Farm Market, specializing in black angus beef
- Marcel and Marian Mildebrant: owners of 4M Bison Farm, has locally raised bison meat
- Laird and Linda DeCramer: owners of local CSA, sell vegetables and organic eggs
- Greg and Barb Becker: owners of local apple orchard
- Stephanie Buhrow and John Hoppa: owners of Thundering Hoof Ranch LLC, specializing in grass-fed and pasture-raised meat
- Joel Goodlaxson: owner of Hickory Ridge Farm, CSA in Waupan, WI specializing in organic beef
- Nicole and Joe Schauer: owners of Good Earth Farm, CSA in Oakfield, WI that also provides to local restaurants
- Russ and Tracy Ratkowski: owners of Five Oaks Farm, CSA in Oakfield, WI transitioning to certified organic
- Thomas and Susan Wrchota: owners of Cattleana Ranch, CSA in Omro, WI
- Tim Rasmussen: college student and owner of Tim's Producein Fond du Lac, WI specializing in sweet corn
- Edward and Barbara Mischler: owners of Mischler Berry Farm, CSA in Waupun, WI specializing in strawberries and asparagus
- Dan Culvey: owner of Park Ridge Organics LLC, CSA in Fond du Lac, WI certified organic
click here for the contact information of producers near Ripon: List of Producers local to Ripon, WI
- Community Members
- Ruth Jeffries: active in Amnesty International and interested in local food issues, wife of Professor Jeffries
- Lynne Joyce: has local cooking show and interested in local food issues, wife of President Joyce
- Craig Tebon: Executive Director of Ripon Main Street, Inc.
- Amy Pollesch: Director of the Ripon Thrift Store and Food Pantry
- Laird and Linda DeCramer: active in Ripon Food Mill Coop, Linda is a librarian at Ripon Public Library
- Students
- Andy Bean: (Ripon '10) president of EGOR, on college's Sustainability and Food committees, active in Amnesty International
- Lisa Hilleren: (Ripon '12) president of Ripon College Greens, on Sustainability committee, active in Amnesty Int'l
- Annie Oliver: (Ripon '10) former president of Chef's Anonymous
- Jesse De Angelis: (Ripon '11) former president and current Urgent Action Coordinator for Amnestry Int'l, active in EGOR
- Hannah Emanuel: (Ripon '09) president of Amnesty Int'l
- Elizabeth McHone: (Ripon '11) Regional Action Coordinator for Amnesty Int'l, active in EGOR, intern in college's Office of Community Engagement working on local food issues
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