A Soiree of Seasons - A great success and celebration

Baby plants for the farm.

Wednesday November 13th a celebration honoring, celebrating and creating awareness around the UMD farm was held at Sacred Heart.  A beautiful space for an amazing event.

UMD's Dining Services have been using local produce from the UMD Food Farm... along with other local farms.... for the past few years.

"In 2011, UMD Food Services served 3,000 pounds of produce from the UMD farm. That number increased to 4,400 pounds in 2012 and this year’s number has more than doubled: 11,000 pounds have been delivered to UMD so far this year."

FANTASTIC!
below are pictures from the event. Check them out!
Much of the food served was from the farm and was DELICIOUS!



Pumplin Soup. - delicious soup and stunning soup bowls!



UMD Chef Tom Linderholm
beside his AMAZING creations

 

UMD Food Farm Fresh Veggies!

Great turnout, conversations and connections

Need a holiday gift?
The SAP t-shirts  - Clever unique design
Proudly wear your support
rhanson2@d.umn.edu
For details
 

Did you know SAP has their own Media Productions?

And... WHO took best dressed for the evening?

 

 

You were undoubtedly looking pretty snazzy Lino... however..

 

 

You have to admit...

The fella on the right took the cake!

David Johnson, Evan Timmerman, Kendra Larson, and Ryan Lunen - Entomology Club at UMD
And Mr. Scare Crow, of course.

 

 

 

 

UMD Farm video

Hi all!
For those of you who were at the Bulldog Welcome Week presentation today. As well as those who were not.  The sound was not playing properly.  As promised, here is the link to the You Tube video about the UMD farm made when it was just starting back up a few years ago.

http://youtu.be/8T8DcbJQ1EQ

More information will be available on future posts about the farm. 
It has grown so much from the time of this video.

Thank you to Randy Hanson, and many other staff, faculty and students who have seen the vision and put so much time, effort, sweat, and more into the Sustainable Agriculture Project.

The farm has given UMD dining services 4400 pounds of food last year served at UMD. It will be exciting to see where that number will reach at the end of the 2012/2013 school year.