{"id":14368,"date":"2012-10-10T09:34:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-10T13:34:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/?p=14368"},"modified":"2012-10-25T11:37:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T15:37:20","slug":"community-flocks-to-emu-for-annual-fall-harvest-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emu.edu\/now\/news\/2012\/community-flocks-to-emu-for-annual-fall-harvest-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"Community Flocks to 91短视频 for Annual Fall Harvest Dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"
Ranita Shenk\u2019s favorite part of the Fall Harvest dinner was squash picked straight out of one of 91短视频\u2019s five campus gardens.<\/p>\n
The 20-year-old sophomore made sure she attended the annual Fall Harvest Local Meal last week, if only because many of her friends were raving about it.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s one of the most popular meals of the year,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
Students, faculty, staff and visitors line up to partake of the yearly celebration of everything local: produce, meat, herbs and even the music playing through the speakers \u2014 all produced no farther away than Waynesboro, and mostly in Harrisonburg or Rockingham County.<\/p>\n
Over the past five years, the meal has become a well-received tradition on campus.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not really on a meal plan, but I make it a point to come,\u201d said senior James Souder, 22.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe always make sure we come,\u201d echoed Lois Shank<\/a>, assistant to Provost Fred Kniss<\/a>, who donated an array of peppers from his city garden.<\/p>\n Season\u2019s Bounty Farm in Harrisonburg<\/a> provided radishes and potatoes, cabbage came from Hickory Hill Farm in Keezletown and Showalter\u2019s Orchard and Greenhouse provided apple cider, to name a few of the event\u2019s farmer participants.<\/p>\n Even the canola oil was local, derived from Portwood Acres in Port Republic<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cThe interest that the community gives us, it\u2019s what makes it worthwhile,\u201d said Ramona Lantz, serving and catering manager at the university, on a short break from practically running around the buzzing dining hall.<\/p>\n Every month, the cafeteria provides a themed meal.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is by far the most popular,\u201d Lantz said.<\/p>\n The event was one of the first of the annual Food and Farming Week at 91短视频, put on by Earthkeepers<\/a>, a student group that aims to encourage and start environmentally friendly practices around campus.<\/p>\n Students learned how to bake bread in Cedarwood<\/a> residence hall last week. They took a tour of Broadway farm Avalon Acres and various campus gardens. And that\u2019s just a sampling of the week\u2019s events.<\/p>\n \u201cThis [meal] is something that students really look forward to,\u201d said Josh Kanagy, co-president of Earthkeepers, while eating his own locally grown meal.<\/p>\n Courtesy Daily News Record, Oct. 9, 2012<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Ranita Shenk\u2019s favorite part of the Fall Harvest dinner was squash picked straight out of one of 91短视频\u2019s five campus gardens. The 20-year-old sophomore made sure she attended ... read more about Community Flocks to 91短视频 for Annual Fall Harvest Dinner<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":112,"featured_media":14381,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5583,5643,5623,4513],"tags":[11283,11346,13558,13876,9314,17224],"feature":[],"class_list":["post-14368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community","category-environmental-sustainability","category-special-programs","category-student-life","tag-earthkeepers","tag-food-and-farming-week","tag-james-souder","tag-josh-kanagy","tag-lois-shank","tag-sustainability"],"yoast_head":"\n