Michigan State University (MSU) students are celebrating the grand opening of the 4,320 square foot unheated Yakeley Hoop House greenhouse, which will provide organic food for MSU’s Yakeley Hall cafeteria.
According to excerpts from the article:
It will be students growing food for fellow students. It's 3 miles—as Laurie Thorp, a faculty adviser to the organic farm, put it—"from student farm to student fork."
"In an age of food that is fast, cheap, plastic-wrapped and shipped around the world, a group of people here at MSU came together, took a stand and said, 'Enough. We can do better,'" Thorp said.
"Instead, we have a vision that our food should be beautiful and slow," she said. "It should not take more than it gives. It should be flavorful and healthful and connected to places and people that we know."
The hoop house, built at a cost of $20,000, traps enough of the sun's heat to allow produce to grow during the fall and early winter months.
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