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Home > Sustainability Goals > Sustainable Food

Sustainable food

Goal:

Purchase 20% of food from local and sustainable sources by 2025.

Status:

Purchased: 19%
FY21-Web-Food

Efforts Supporting
This Goal

  • Sustainable food purchases by Dining Services and campus departments
  • U-M Student Farm Stand
  • Research and education about sustainable kitchen supplies

Take Action

  • Stock your break room with sustainable coffee, tea, etc.
  • Get involved with a U-M community garden
  • Buy local food at an M Farmers Market or via community supported agriculture
  • Participate in the U-M Sustainable Food Program
  • Grow food at the Campus Farm

Background

  • Food goal reporting update
  • FY21 goal fact sheet
  • Sustainable food goal reporting guidelines

Research

  • Planet Blue Global Impact - Food Systems
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