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IU Research and Teaching Preserve Student Environmental Science Grants
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The IU RTP Student Environmental Science Grant program offers funding for undergraduate or graduate student research in the environmental sciences at the IU Research and Teaching Preserve properties. Awards up to $4,000 will be granted on a competitive basis. The IU RTP is excited to offer these funds to encourage and advance student research on our properties.
Applicants are due March 26th, 2021; application directions and forms are available online. Contact preserve@indiana.edu with any questions.
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Sustainability Research Development Grants
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The Sustainability Research Development Grant program offers funding for undergraduate or graduate students to support sustainability research. Up to $3,000 is available for undergraduates and up to $10,000 for graduate students that are in good standing and will be enrolled through the duration of the grant period. Proposals may come from any discipline and must address multiple dimensions of sustainability (economic, environmental, social).
This award program supports collaborative efforts of Indiana University students, previously in conjunction with faculty, to develop new, externally funded research programs related to research on sustainability. This represents an outgrowth of a broad-based initiative supported by the Integrated Program in the Environment and Sustain IU.
Proposals are due March 28th, 2021 and require a faculty letter of recommendation. Contact Sarah Mincey for more information; visit the program page to apply.
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Bloomington Farm Stop Collective, Inc. is currently looking to fill a manager position. More info here.
Opening in 2021,the Bloomington farm stop is a non-profit agricultural cooperative, operating as a consignment based retail and aggregation space that exclusively sells local food, grown and raised by area farmers or prepared by food artisans. This project is inspired by the successful Argus Farm Stop in Ann Arbor, Michigan and represents an important step toward building a stronger local food system in the Bloomington community. We seek to increase the amount of food that consumers buy from local farms and empower farmers with greater ownership of the food distribution system. The Bloomington farm stop will include two key food sales components: 1) a direct to consumer retail store front and 2) an online market platform connecting farmers & food artisans with institutional food buyers. A small in-store cafe with a full menu of coffee, teas, and baked goods will subsidize operations. This component of the store will also serve to build relationships, by encouraging customers to interact with each other and the farmers who stop by to make deliveries. The farm stop will also host regular events about local food, agriculture, and healthy cooking.
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Campus Kitchen is partnering with Food for Thought IU this semester to distribute free food boxes to students! They are doing 5 box events total, beginning next Thursday and Friday and continuing every other week through the end of April.
Next week's box will include all local butternut squash, fingerling potatoes, sage sausage (optional), fitting pantry items, and a recipe for all the ingredients. It's capped at 50 registrations so be sure to sign up now if interested!
They would also love your input on Food for Thought's food preferences survey if you're interested in helping us decide what's in future boxes.
Link to register: https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_7QljKIXakksyGhg
Link to survey: https://iu.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_6KIKRakw0EJ1s3k
Also be sure to follow them on Facebook at "@campuskitchenIU" and email cwilken@iu.edu if you would like to be added to the Campus Kitchen email listserv.
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The Hoosier Hills Food Bank (HHFB) Garden and Gleaning Program is currently looking for classes, clubs, and other groups to partner with our organization for a variety of educational and service-oriented opportunities. HHFB’s 1-acre garden at Will Detmer Park has provided our partner agencies with fresh and nutritious produce since 2009 and we are now looking to engage the community in sustainable community agriculture and food justice through our Garden and Gleaning Program. We are hoping to open our garden to small groups and classes for a variety of programming in an outdoor and socially distanced setting. Programming is flexible, and we are open to collaborating with many different groups of varying skill level and knowledge on a variety of topics throughout the growing season. We have added a special educational plot this year to showcase a traditional Haudenosaunee style three-sisters garden, but programming need not be limited to this plot only. We are open to both one-time classes/field trips or recurring projects as well as more service-oriented workdays.
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Opportunities are available throughout the growing season (April-November) but some bigger projects that would be helpful to have groups for include:
· Preparing and planting the Three-Sisters Garden (Early May)
· Planting our sweet potato field (Last week of May/First week of June), and also harvesting this field (early-mid October)
Please reach out if you have any interest in bringing a group out to the garden, and we can put together an engaging and appropriate experience that can be both fun and educational for your group and also help to fight hunger and food insecurity in our community.
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IU ASEAN Gateway: F&B Entrepreneurs Networking
Wed.Mar.10th - 08.00 EST - 20.00 BKK/WIB - 21.00 SG/KL
Register here: http://bit.ly/IUASEAN_FB (Zoom)
Panelists:
- Copper Buffet in Thailand which serves 20,000 customers per month
- Nippon Sushi in Malaysia serving Halal Japanese food. Now with 14 branches in 3 years, recently opened 3 MyViets Vietnamese restaurants since Nov.’20
- Nitro Labs Coffee in Thailand, with 7 retail shops in 3-wheeled Rickshaws called Tuktuks and vending machine taps to serve in offices
- Cali-Mex in Thailand, with beer taps at tables. Moving into Cloud Kitchens
- Ombe Kofie, one of the specialty coffee chains in Jakarta, Indonesia
- Miwaku Mochi Ice Cream in Indonesia, serving ice cream in a jar
- Bali Culinary Pastry School will open the session on the importance of professional skills for the F&B industry
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Please join the Islamic Studies department March 18 at 12 noon for a lecture by John Bowen (Wash U) with response from Olivier Roy (European University Institute, Florence): "Proving Halal: Devices, Trust, and Networks."
Zoom registration is required: https://bit.ly/2OtvHov
This event is co-sponsored by the Institute for European Studies and the IU Food Institute.
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People's Open Pantry / La Despensa POPular ("POP" for short) runs every Saturday 11 AM - 1 PM at Artisan Alley, (222 W 2nd Street). POP is stocked weekly with food from Hoosier Hills Food Bank and personal care items donated by the community. All are welcome - no ID or proof of need required.
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Earth Eats is a show about food and farming. It’s storytelling, recipes, farm visits, and kitchen sessions. We have conversations with scholars, chefs, growers, and food justice activists. We hear from authors, artists, scientists, poets, and people who love to eat.
Earth Eats brings you food news from our own reporters and our partners at Harvest Public Media, a reporting collective covering agriculture in the American heartland. Check out current podcasts here.
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